"On Mark Bulgiers site one of the Serotta catalogs ( 1985 ) has the following statement "In addition to our line of professional quality bicycles and framesets, we now have readily available the new *SEROTTA TITAN.* These are the same bicycles that were used in the new Warner Brothers movie "American Flyer".
Does anyone know anything about this? I also thought that the bikes used were Specialized?
Marty Eison Frisco, Texas" ____________________________________________________________________
Marty,
The bikes referred to in the catalog are the ones ridden by the faux 7-Eleven squad in the film, as Serotta was building the real 7-Eleven team bikes at the time. Interestingly, one of the bikes purportedly used in the movie was recently offered for sale on ebay (I recall the original listing as well):
I think it's quite plausible that this is indeed one of the bikes used in the movie, given the evident resemblance, and also the fact that the ebay bike has several notable differences from all of the other Serotta-Murray 7-Eleven replicas and team bikes I've seen.
Ed Granger Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA "Enough of this Sunday stroll! Let's hurt a little!"