About big jonny

The man, the legend. The guy who started it all back in the Year of Our Lord Beer, 2000, with a couple of pages worth of idiotic ranting hardcoded on some random porn site that would host anything you uploaded, a book called HTML for Dummies (which was completely appropriate), a bad attitude (which hasn’t much changed), and a Dell desktop running Win95 with 64 mgs of ram and a six gig hard drive. Those were the days. Then he went to law school. Go figure. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

10 Replies to “Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle”

  1. and road calipers, and check out the top tube on the second guy’s bike— is that a ladies’ frame set??

  2. …mikey…bianchi special built X frameset for paris-roubaix & the rock shox sl fork…

    …i know johan museeuw rode one also…looking for a photo ‘cuz as i recall, the rear end was suspended…

  3. …that photo is from 1994 & that is museeuw on said bike…i had forgotten that only one was ever built…even with all that suspension he flatted & finished 13th, 4min & change down…that bike was never raced again simply because with 200 k’s of smooth road in paris-roubaix, the extra weight was too much to haul around…

    …andrei tchmil won that particular 1994 race with a rock shox sl & duclos-lasalle had won the year before, also with a rock shox sl…

    …clearly they had their day for a short run but again, it was the weight factor that killed suspended road racing bikes…