Lance's bikes, from LITESPEED?????

[RUMSPEC]

Under the sports column, using the keyword, "sports" . The article states that
small bicycle company takes in the glory due to Lance's win. It says that
Lance's bikes are purchased from Litespeed, custom made at a tune of $6,000 a
piece. Then a Trek decals are applied. The question is: Is this just for the
Time Trial bike or his road bike also?? .........................Opinions
please............

[w.a. manning]

unless litespeed magically learned how to make OCLV carbon frames, i'd say that
lance's road bikes are from trek...

[Bike Doc]

I believe his TT bike was a Litespeed.

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w.a. manning wrote in message <379BB446...@earthlink.net>...

[* sharon *]

The TT bike is a Litespeed Blade. Bobby Julich rode one, too.

http://www.greatoutdoors.com/auto_docs/velonews/race/road/1999/99tdf/9/tech_
09.html

and the road bike is indeed a Trek.

sharon*

Bike Doc wrote in message <70Pm3.141$J3....@typ31b.nn.bcandid.com>...

[Pete Ruckelshaus]

Yeah, you can tell by looking at the head tube "fairing", it is the same as
found on the Blade.

Bike Doc <BikeDoc(NOSPAM)@Velo-Club-Roubaix.org> wrote in message
news:70Pm3.141$J3....@typ31b.nn.bcandid.com...

[Brian Nystrom]

RUMSPEC wrote:

> Under the sports column, using the keyword, "sports" . The article states that
> small bicycle company takes in the glory due to Lance's win. It says that
> Lance's bikes are purchased from Litespeed, custom made at a tune of $6,000 a
> piece. Then a Trek decals are applied. The question is: Is this just for the
> Time Trial bike or his road bike also?? .........................Opinions
> please............

Just the TT bike.

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Brian

[Richard McClary]

Next question: the TT bikes for the rest of the USPS team were noticably
different from Lance's Blade. (They looked kind-of like the 2000 series
alum frame.) What did the rest of the team use for TT?

[Splattski]

Lance rode his old Blade, but the rest of the Postal TT bikes are built by Trek
in the R&D lab.

[CV2572]

spla...@aol.com (Splattski) writes:

>Lance rode his old Blade, but the rest of the Postal TT bikes are built by
>Trek
>in the R&D lab.

I understant the Trek bikes were stock machines.

Additionally, I hear that Lance paid for the Blade himself (at a whopping 20%
under wholesale), since Trek wouldn't build him a custom TT frameset)!

Robin Hubert

[John Thompson]

That's disappointing. When I worked for Trek (1980-1986) we
custom-built all the team frames.

-John (John.T...@ibm.net)

[Mike Jacoubowsky]

Hmm...MM said the frames were shipped out of stock (with the exception of
Livingston's, which was a prototype of the 1 1/8" headtube that's been put
off for awhile).

And what are you doing slumming around in the newsgroups? I thought you had
a life (unlike me, who spent the better part of the past five days
clarifying who rode what on the USPS team)...

--Mike--
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Splattski <spla...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:19990728181907...@ng-fj1.aol.com...

Lance rode his old Blade, but the rest of the Postal TT bikes are built by
Trek
in the R&D lab.

rmcc...@napcc.aspca.org wrote:

[Goc...@webtv.net]

I sent the following question to Lightspeed:

Was Lance's bike really a Litespeed with Trek decals?

"You're correct - Lance's time trial bike was a custom Blade. By the
terms of his sponsorship contract with Trek he was allowed to choose any
bike he wanted, and that was a Litespeed. Because we are not the
sponsoring company he had to pay for this - money well spent, obviously!
His ROAD BIKE was a TREK, however."

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