Vintage diamondback bicycles pro#

The real hierarchy to KleinвЂ™s off-road offerings involved weight and component integration. Tinker probably hadnвЂ™t been вЂњentry levelвЂќ since racing BMX bikes as an eight year old kid. The ad copy suggested that the Rascal should be considered an вЂњentry levelвЂќ racing bike, but if you happened to watch or line up at an elite level NORBA race in 1992 you would have noticed Tinker Juarez had selected the Rascal as his racing bike. The Rascal was KleinвЂ™s 3rd tier mountain bike following the Adroit and the Attitude in the lineup. The top tube is drawn, squishedВ or folded (weвЂ™re not reallyВ sure how it was made) into a diamond shape. The downtube starts out as a sheet of metal that gets folded into an oval shape and then welded at the seam. ItвЂ™s made of 6/4 alloyed titanium, which is really the best (lightest, stiffest) but most difficult blend of titanium to work. So paint job aside, the frame is awesome. In case it isnвЂ™t obvious to you, the little blocks in the paint job represent bricks or floor tiles, and the fish-scale pattern is supposed to be tile adhesive as it would be spread on a floor. The company has used professional cycling sponsorship for their advertising (sometimes joining with the Quickstep flooring company) for decades. Mapei is an Italian company that produces paint, adhesives, grout, and sealants for commercial and residential construction. This is a 1999 Colnago Oval Master titanium racing bike in the Mapei Team colors. Serious racing bikes donвЂ™t have to be painted black.

Vintage diamondback bicycles pro#

Despite the toy-store colors in the paint scheme this was once considered the most bad-ass racing bike in the pro peloton.