Pic of Day: a picture from "I Campioni di Castelli", depicting Urs Freuler at the 1984 (I think) Giro d'Italia, riding a dropped-toptube Atala... note the tiny bend of the bars, the very low placement of the brake levers, the extended seattube, the bottle cover, and points leader's purple (ciclamino) jersey. Please note: I've switched to Yahoo! photoalbum, and it's a big link, so you may have to cut-n-paste the address.
http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/
Aldo Ross
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stockwell, Brad <BRAD.STOCKWELL@mpp.cpii.com>
> > CR FOLK:
> >
> > In 1984 or so, a guy named Urs Fruehler, or something that sounds like
> > that, rode for the Bottechia team in riding togs with horizontal blue
and
> > grey stripes (jersey and shorts both) - and his bike had a headtube
> > extension of an inch or more. He managed to win one of the classics on
> this
> > rig, and thus it is pictured in one of the 'Fabulous World of Cycling'
> > yearbooks.