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by shinkansen on Tue May 24, 2005 12:32 am

TIAA-Cref's Timmy Duggan running LW's at Tour of Conneticut (sp?) and waving buh-bye to the peloton:

http://velonews.com/race/dom/articles/8084.0.html

Scroll down for pic.. 2nd row, right side.
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by 520 Dan on Tue May 24, 2005 12:42 am

look at that stem!


I think Javelin is one of the importers of lightweight in the states. Their booth had some wheels at interbike.
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by ALx on Tue May 24, 2005 1:21 am

520 Dan wrote:look at that stem!


:shock: well... maybe a way to save grams??? :wink: he then can take a smaller frame...???
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by willf03 on Tue May 24, 2005 1:21 am

The stem almost offsets the coolness of the Lightweights...someone should tell him about spacers... :roll:
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by ALx on Tue May 24, 2005 1:22 am

520 Dan wrote:look at that stem!



:shock: well... maybe a way to save grams??? he can then take a smaller frame.. ??
...........or maybe he's just dumb :wink:
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by fdegrove on Tue May 24, 2005 1:33 am

Hi,

...........or maybe he's just dumb


LOL.

Maybe just very short arms and very, very long legs too, uh? :shock:

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by asphaltdude on Tue May 24, 2005 10:07 am

willf03 wrote:The stem almost offsets the coolness of the Lightweights...someone should tell him about spacers... :roll:


Well actually using spacers and a negative angle stem is much more stupid.... (from a weight weenie point of view...)
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by big fellow on Tue May 24, 2005 11:55 am

man that stem looks ridiculous!!!!!
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by NS on Tue May 24, 2005 12:27 pm

Cant say I've noticed a single pair in the Giro
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by Frankie - B on Tue May 24, 2005 3:09 pm

I watched the Giro from the start and haven't seen a single pair of them.

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by cadence90 on Tue May 24, 2005 4:03 pm

Me neither. But, to each his own I guess.
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by Joel on Tue May 24, 2005 4:26 pm

That stem looks weird, but 5cm of spacers is as crappy as that stem
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by wooly on Tue May 24, 2005 4:37 pm

Maybe he's just excited to be up front.
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by rustychain on Wed May 25, 2005 2:12 am

I think he stole the bike......it does not fit at all.
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by Boonen on Wed May 25, 2005 7:12 am

I don't know this guy at all, but maybe he broke his colarbone recently?
When you have broken your collarbone and a surgeon has put a metal plate on it you can start riding within a few weeks but it still hurts when you put too much stress on it. Pulling up the handlebars makes you sit more upright and eases the colarbone a bit.
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