Thanks Aldo, very good picture. Also shows Claudy is riding a 'Splendor' stickered Vitus frame, and not the usual blue and yellow steel frame! Must be an important mountainstage. (The conversation between team mamager and their top rider must have gone like this: 'OK, Claude, you can have that Vitus frame, but then you must ride with the new C Record stuff.' 'OK then, but I will keep my old Super Record pedals!')
Freek Faro Rotterdam Netherlands
2009/3/28 Aldo Ross <aldoross4@siscom.net>
> Hi Freek,
>
> Here's a pic of Criquielion on his Hitachi-Splendor team bike at the 1986
> Tour de France.
>
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>
> Click on pic for larger image.
>
> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio, USA
> Daily Post #1
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Freek Faro" <khun.freek@gmail.com>
> To: "CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:44 AM
> Subject: [CR] In search of pictures, ADR-Bottecchia 1989,Splendor-Hitachi
> 1985/86
>
>
> Good day all,
>>
>> As some of you know, I am the lucky owner of two ex-pro bikes, a probably
>> 1986 Splendor-Hitachi and a 1989 ADR-Bottecchia (fully Mavic equipped).
>> Most
>> of you will remember that Splendor-Hitachi was the team of Claude
>> Criquelion
>> and ADR-Bottecchia was the team that Greg Lemond won the TdF with, in
>> 1989.
>> I am now (at last!) ready to build up/finish both bikes (there was some
>> work
>> to be done), and since they both fit me, I am looking forward to riding
>> them. Once spring sets in!
>>
>> I've googled till my head was aching, but couldn't really find good
>> pictures
>> of both team bikes. This could help in the finish of course, and would
>> also
>> motivate me no end.
>>
>> So, if anyone has pictures of the Splendor-Hitachi teambikes, and or the
>> ADR-Bottecchia bikes and could scan and mail them to me, I'd be very very
>> happy. These could be magazine pcitures or from a book, in a race or
>> posing
>> for PR.
>>
>> thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>> Freek Faro
>> Rotterdam Netherlands