Re: LeMond double talk

Before he sold the brand to Trek, LeMond had a carbon bike in his lineup...
the bike shop I worked in during the early 90's sold LeMonds and we had one
of the carbon bikes there... Although I think it took forever before we ever
sold it. I think it was made by a company called Carbonframes, IIRC.


"Crescentius Vespasianus" <jazzyboss@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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LeMond Cycles' new carbon Triomphe line of frames marks its most ambitious
high performance road offerings to date as well as its first all-carbon
frame developed fully in-house. Lead engineer Aaron Mock and the rest of
his
crew brought into play a "Min/Max" design philosophy to produce a frame
with
"minimum weight but maximum output".
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now here comes the double talk
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LeMond has always described himself as a "big believer in carbon fiber"
and,
in the prime of his career, was one of the earliest top pros to adopt the
new material for his race machines.
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What I heard before was he was a big believer in steel. But I guess that
only was valid as long as he was selling steel bikes. Then he was a
aluminum guy, and now a carbon guy.




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