My eyes! My eyes!

[Tim Kelley]

That third picture looks really familiar. I think I’ve done that same descent a few times…

[skreaminquadz]

I like that first pic – nicely done action shot!! I have the exact Toupe saddle (with the red highlights) on one of my commuters.

I guess you were moving a bit faster today than the BD usually takes you…

[Mark Blacknell]

1992 called . . .

[Dirt]

@SQ: Depends on the terrain. The Dummy accelerates like a Prius with a faulty accelerator pedal on the right kind of hill. The Tesch is definitely a joy to ride. I keep saying that I’m not going to ride it until I get the frame restored… and I keep getting it out of the basement and riding it. I love that bike. I’m gonna have to break down and buy another steel bike so that I can send this one off to cycle-art.

@Mark: I got my first Tesch in 1989. This one I think is from 1990. I had a third that I purchased in mid 1991. The first was a lugged “101” model. That bike was amazing.. quite possibly the nicest bike I’ve ever ridden. It died at the hands of a crazed woman with a chevy blazer full of chinchillas. It would be funny as hell if it didn’t come at the cost of that lovely bike. Tesch was one of a few frame builders that really pioneered the use of TIG welded steel in a high-end racing frame. The lugged steel 101 frame was replaced by this TIG welded S-22 frame. By today’s standards it is a boat anchor. The ride and handling is really amazing.

I’ll stop drooling now. Luckily they make me wear a lobster bib at work.

[Dirt]

Oh yeah… I forgot. Check out the tire clearance on the fork crown on that first rolling shot. Part of why Tesch’s bikes handled so well was that he rocked that fork crown as low as possible. There’s barely 1mm clearance with 23mm tires. I had more than one race where a doinked rim parked me for the day.

[skreaminquadz]

Man – that clearance is tight! I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one that tight. I guess it keeps your front tire pretty debris free ; )

[Kilkula]

why this bike are pink? i’ll be seen everwhere^^?!

[Dirt]

@Kilkula 1016 wrote:

why this bike are pink? i’ll be seen everwhere^^?!

Not long after posting this up, I got hit by a car. It was broad daylight. There was nothing to limit visibility… except the driver wasn’t looking out the windshield. He was looking backwards while driving. First words out of his mouth when he got out of the car??? “I didn’t see you!” Bwahahahaha

The bike is now being sent back to be fixed, restored, renovated and repainted.

Pete

[Dirt]

Assaulting people’s eyes seems to be a habit I have with my bike builds.

As bright as that color looks in photos, it is 10x brighter in person.

It also rides real goodly too.

Hugs and kisses,

Pete

[Mark Blacknell]

What I’m impressed with is your ability to do a costume change on the bike between photos.

[brendan]

You couldn’t source fluorescent rims?

Brendan

[Dirt]

@Mark: I’m an International Man of Mystery when it comes to ensemble changes.

@Brendan: I came so close to ordering matching green rims. In the end I went with yellow. The wheels you see there were the ones that were on the bike that had a broken frame a few months ago. The only new stuff is the frame, bar and stem, bar tape and chain. Pretty much all of the serious components were just stripped off of the bloody corpse of Mutant Snow Bike.

[Dirt]

My bike is ready for Seagull Century.

I hate the handlebars too. Looks like my bike has been doing the nasty with an elk or something. They will, however, be very, very useful.

[americancyclo]

@Dirt 8733 wrote:

My bike is ready for Seagull Century

I’m glad you’ll be hard to miss. I’ll be there on Grimace and I’ll keep an eye out for ya, or at least warn my other riding buddies to shield theirs. :p

[americancyclo]

@Dirt 8733 wrote:

They will, however, be very, very useful.

Does it get windy on that ride? I’m a Seagull virgin.

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