With the Giraffe on this one. The early high end alumium TCRs were rad as hell. The Allez sucked and Trek was making those crappy 5000 series carbon bikes still. Both whack as hell. The crazy sloped top tube on the TCR was the first time I ever saw something like on a production bike and pretty much revolutionized the road bike aesthetic post shift to threadless forks.
Co-worker had the full 7700 Dura Ace bike. They look dated now, but so does just about everything from 2002.
Plus the ONCE bikes had the little logo man machined into the headtube.
I love my 2006 aluminum TCR. It isnât trying to be anything but a solid road bike. All of the paint from that era was terrible though. Mine was pretty much the same paint scheme as above but with silver and black. First thing I did was get it painted baby blue.
pobably the best thing the whole c.2010 custom bike fad did for the industry was to push the big brands into calming the fuck down with their paint jobs.
2000âs road bike paint was so terrible. Panels! swooshy fades! weird disjuncts between colors! Only redblackwhitesilver with maybe yellow! LOGOS.
yeah, it got big in streetwear a few years ago, lots of maximalist longsleeves and joggers with logos all over the place, rehashing the late 90âs logo mania.
Itâs really not my thing at all, but it seems like a pretty straightforward ebb and flow
I bought an un-marked CK headset on ebay for $45.
It came with a cracked top cap and no bearing cover thing so I basically bought a pair of bearing bowls and a crown race.
I have a top cap I can use but the only CK bearing cover I have is orange and that wonât do.
Buying the part I need from CK would cost more than I paid for the bearing bowls.
What do?
This is the part I need:
