If your wheel is right underneath you when you are descending, you just don’t have the grip, tracking and stability in the corners.” LeMond insists, “My geometries are not radical.” Instead, he prefers to call them “sensible. But a road racer needs longer stays because it descends better, it handles better and it’s more comfortable. There is no reason to have such a short seat stay in the back, unless you’re a sprinter on the track, starting from a standstill. “In recent years, we’ve moved to shorter and shorter wheelbases and there is no foundation for it. Promoting LeMond Geometry, the bikes have a slightly relaxed seat angle, a longer top tube, a slightly relaxed head tube and a slightly longer wheelbase. For the moment, LeMond boasts an elegant steel frame, the Washoe, as well as three limited-edition carbon models: the 1986 TDF Ltd, the 1989 TDF Ltd and the 1990 TDF Ltd. His current collaboration with Time is clearly a starting point and one he plans to expand upon. And although he rarely rides for more than two hours at a time, when he is riding, it is through the eyes of an experienced pro. A two-time winner of the Road Race World Championship (19) and a three-time winner of the Tour de France (1986, 1989, and 1990). Entering into conversation about bikes with LeMond will never be short-winded, because even today, more than 20 years after he retired from racing, LeMond is constantly analyzing the bike and its relationship with the rider. Gregory James LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is an American former professional road racing cyclist, entrepreneur, and anti-doping advocate. But if you talk to them, most want more of a gran fondo bike because they have a better geometry,” LeMond says. “You have to remember that the pros today ride what sponsors give them. RELATED: See what else is On Test at Peloton’s Service Course From his first self-produced bikes in the late-1980s, to his long-running partnership with Trek, to his most recent collaboration with Time, LeMond has continually promoted top-end performance bikes that emphasize stability and comfort. Greg LeMond is many things: pioneering Tour de France champion, sports commentator and, most certainly, a passionate bicycle manufacturer. This particular frame was repainted buy Jim Allen, who still paints Roland Della Santa’s frames today.Get access to everything we publish when you Most frames were built up with Campagnolo C-Record group-sets that were engraved with “Team LeMond”, and were used for promotional purposes in shows and for photographs. Della Santa was building Greg’s race frames at the time, and was contracted to build a limited number of pre-production frames for use in getting the business up and running. It was part of a batch of pre-production frames built for Greg LeMond and his father Bob LeMond when they were setting up the LeMond frame and bicycle business. The frame was built by Roland Della Santa in Reno Nevada in 1987. The anecdotes on the bikes are written by Wayne. Hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed shooting them. They got the holeshot, but I got the finishing kick. If yer hot to learn more about Wayne and his shop, Velo Classique, check out the PEZCycling post from a few weeks ago. This is the first of more than a few bikes I have queued, and, obviously, a full shop profile. Soooo, after the Interbike blitz, an honest-to-Merckx metric shit ton of nieuw products, and some CX action all mixed with a generous portion of procrastination, I’m stoked to finally get to these. I originally shot these way back in August.
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