Armstrong's front brake?

Clovis Lark said:

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>Why not just have TT bars rise up from the fork blades? Seems like you wouldn't need a stem
>anymore.
>

The US Olympic team pursuit bikes for 1984 had just that. The stem was welded to the fork crown
and nothing came out of the top of the headtube. So the stem was vertical and in front of the
headtube.

I have the bike that Dave Letteri rode that year but nowhere to post a photo.

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Clovis Lark said:

Dan Connelly d_j_c_o_n_n_e_l@i_e_e_e.o_r_g said:

Bruce Frech said:

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>Why not just have TT bars rise up from the fork blades? Seems like you wouldn't need a stem
>anymore.
>

The US Olympic team pursuit bikes for 1984 had just that. The stem was welded to the fork crown
and nothing came out of the top of the headtube. So the stem was vertical and in front of the
headtube.

I have the bike that Dave Letteri rode that year but nowhere to post a photo.

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Looks like an IU piece of [censored] to me...

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steve robertson said:

Well, this has probably been pointed out here before. WTF is this:?

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I don't read much into Armstrong winning that TT, the competition was not exactly top-notch -
USPS was the only D1 team who brought anything like an "A" team...

But he certainly doesn't look fat.

It's an old Shimano Dura Ace AX front brake, circa 1982 or so. I became a hardware maven back in
July of 1982 when Bicycling (almost worth reading back then) had a great comparo of 3 Italian
steeds with Campy Super Record (De Rosa, Guerciotti, Rossin) with 3 Japanese high end bikes (Fuji,
3Rensho, Miyata). One of them was built with the Dura Ace AX group - the Miyata, I believe. They
had these brakes, which were a sort of cam centerpull. The whole Dura Ace AX component group was
an attempt at building "aerodynamic" components (I don't know about the aerodynamics of most of
the components, but the water bottles were pretty slick, and another item Lance has used from time
to time). I once made a disparaging comment about their braking power, but someone chimed in to
tell me that they worked rather well, despite their tiny pads.

Lance has used them before, back in 2000, for his time trial bike.

I found this this a good picture of the rear brake and other AX components.

www.firstflightbikes.com/ Vista.htm