LeMond Bicycles 2000 Catalog

MAILLOT JAUNE

6061 t6 butted Aeroluminum
Time Stiletto carbon fiber
Rolf Vector Pro
Shimano Dura Ace | 9-speed
47. 50, 53. 55. 58, 61
Green with Yellow panels

Racers dream of wearing the Maillot Jaune, the Tour de
France leader's jersey, of what wearing it might do for them.
The Maillot Jaune has elevated the ordinary, energized the
exhausted, inspired the spiritless. Wear it, even for a day,
and you are raised above your fellow riders forever.
Wear it into Paris at Tour's end, and you are lofted onto
the shoulders of the Gods.

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Greg LeMond came back from
injury and illness in 1989.
After a slow start in spring
races, he got stronger and
stronger. At the Tour he won
the leader's jersey, worrying the
cocky Parisian, Laurent Fignon.

Fignon rode
hard in the
mountains,
took back the
jersey and
grinned at
the cameras.

In the last-stage time trial
into Paris, LeMond averaged
an impossible 34mph,
beating Laurent Fignon
by just enough to win the
closest, most dramatic
Tour ever.

What else would you call the
premier Greg LeMond model?

Steven Rooks; Sean Kelly; Laurent Fignon; Dimitri Konyshev;
Greg LeMond. After 150 miles of the 1989 Worlds through
Chambery, France, there were 5 leaders; five racers left
racing. Everyone else was gone, off the back, left behind.
Five big names, five riders worthy of being World Champion.

CHAMBERY

6061 T6 butted Aeroluminum

Time Stiletto carbon fiber

Rolf Vector Comp

Shimano Ultegra | 9-speed

47. 50, 53. 55. 58, 61

Red with White panels

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With just under a mile
to go Fignon attacked the
group, nervous of Kelly's
sprint, LeMond's strength.
But LeMond responded
and counter-attacked but
gained no advantage.

There Greg was, with
300 meters to go, a
light rain now falling,
and unfortunately
leading it out, Kelly
and company right on
his wheel.

Greg slowly built speed, carefully
in the rain, but wary of those
behind, using all his periferal
vision. Eventually Greg was fully
commited, no opportunity to find
a draft, nothing left to do but put
his head down and go.

Konyshev went left.
Kelly went right, while
Rooks and Fignon
faded, but no one
could come around
the now three-time
World Champion.

Every Sport has its supreme challenge. Cycling's is a
mountain pass in the Alps with 21 numbered switchbacks.
Huge crowds watch Tour de France racers labor up that pass
Everyone knows that only a "giant of the road" can win
on l'AIpe d'Huez. Though he's certainly a giant of the road,
Greg LeMond never won an Alpe d'Huez stage. But he's
been close.

ALPE D HUEZ

6061 t6 butted Aeroluminum

Time Stiletto carbon fiber

Rolf Vector

Shimano 105 | 9-speed

47. 50, 53. 55. 58, 61

Orange with Blue panels

Raging fit in 1986,
he left his ordained
team leader,
Bernard Hinault,
struggling far
behind. LeMond's
team manager
came up in a car
and ordered him to
wait for Hinault.

Obedient but torn, LeMond gave
away the most prestigious stage win
of the Tour. In 1990, the same stage:
With one hand in a jersey pocket,
he hit a pothole and lost control,
crashing into an elderly lady fan.
LeMond got up; she didn't, not
immediately. Concerned, LeMond
wouldn't leave. Her husband urged
him to carry on, calling him Greg,
apparently more concerned for the
Tour star than his wife.

Back on the bike, LeMond
popped his dislocated finger
back into the socket. Late in
the stage on the way into a
tight corner he reached
for his brake lever; his hand
just wouldn't work. He got
around the corner, but too
fast, sliding the bike's back
end. He lost momentum
and found himself stuck in
a too-high gear.

At the line, Gianni
Bugno beat him by
half-a-wheel. So the
LeMond luck has been
mixed on Alpe d'Huez
— but that climb has
been meaningful more
than once in his racing
career. Hence the
model named after the
Alpine climb with the
21 numbered hairpins.

ZURICH

Reynolds 853 double butted steel alloy
Icon Air Rail carbon fiber
>M r . .) l Rolf Vector Comp

Shimano Ultegra | g-speed
47. 49. 51. 53. 55. 57. 59. 61
White with Red panels

In 1980. we watched Greg LeMond ride away
from our best Northern California-Nevada fields.
In '83, we heard he'd won the Worlds in Zurich.
An American World Champion.

Wow.

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American bikies had nursed a decades-
long inferiority complex. We knew
we couldn't compete with Europeans
in the sport we loved. We'd had a bright
moment or two: Fine performances from
Jacques Boyer; Mike Neel: and George
Mount. We were delighted when they
finished big races; amazed when they
placed top-ten.

After all, they were competing with supermen
from countries where cycling was a serious sport.
In those countries, a tough man could pedal his
way out of the mine or factory, or off the farm.
We knew we couldn't cut it against those guys.
We were just too soft. Or we were spoiled by our
automatic transmission cars and remote control
lifestyle. We were a third-rate cycling nation for
sure. Always would be, we figured.

Until Greg LeMond.
Until Zurich.

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This 18-year-old kid from Reno, Bob LeMond's
son Greg, flies to Argentina to race against the
best riders his age in the world. In Buenos Aires
he rides the team time trial; the foursome takes
the bronze. He rides the 3,000 meter pursuit
on the track even though he's never been on
a velodrome before; he silver medals.

BUENOS AIRES

Reynolds 853 double butted steel alloy

Icon Carbon Classic carbon fiber

Mavic CXP21 rims | Shimano 105 hubs l"i!»JH=u

Shimano 105 | 9-speed

47,49. 51. 53. 55. 57. 59. 61

Yellow with White panels

He rides the road race. In the
final sprint, a young Belgian
rider, desperate to win, swerves
across the road closely in front of
Greg. He forces Greg clear across
the road into the barricade of
car tires marking the road edge.

Miraculously, Greg stays on the
bike and crosses the line, finishing
second by a bike-length. But, so
blatant was the Belgian's violation,
officials relegated him to second
place. Greg LeMond, at 18, had
won his first big international race.

A Buenos Aires is made for adventure,
for riding fast or slow anywhere, paved roads
or smooth dirt trails, on the flat or up and
down steep hills. It's a LeMond, same frame
geometry as the Maillot Jaune or Zurich,
with either a double or triple crankset
for versatility.

TOURMALET

Reynolds 525 double butted cromoly
Aero cromoly
1 Mavic CXP21 rims | Shimano rsx hubs
Shimano rsx | 8-speed

47.49. 51. 53. 55. 57. 59. 61
Red with White panels

The Tourmalet, a storied, grueling mountain pass in the
Pyrenees, is the southern equivalent of l'Alpe d'Huez.
Early in the 1990 Tour, exhausted and sick, Greg LeMond
lost 10 minutes to Claudio Chiappucci. The unknown
Italian had broken away with a couple of other riders,
none considered "dangerous'.' The peloton had carelessly
let them slip away. The Italian put on the Maillot Jaune,
caught fire and fought savagely to protect his massive lead.
Ten minutes...
It looked bad for LeMond.

Day after day, LeMond earned back bits
of time. His last chance to take back the
race from the upstart Italian was on a
stage finishing in Luz Ardiden, a stage that
ascended the fearsome Tourmalet. On easier
climbs before the Tourmalet, LeMond sent
teammates up the road; he planned to attack,
catching those teammates one by one. Each
would pace him up the mountain as far as he
could. Then LeMond would jump to the next.

Just as planned, LeMond attacked,
catching teammate after teammate.
At the top of the Tourmalet, rising
star Miguel Indurain towed his
team leader, Tour contender Pedro
Delgado, up to LeMond's group.
Though fried, LeMond rallied.
Dripping sweat, face contorted,
he jumped with another attack
and suffered to the finish.

LeMond was second at Luz
Ardiden, 6 seconds behind
Indurain. Chiappucci managed
to finish 14th, losing precious
minutes of his lead to Greg,
who went on to claim the
yellow jersey, and winning his
third Tour de France.

Greg Lemond's first real race bikes were built
by Reno framebuilder Roland Delia Santa.
Delia Santa owned a true racing shop where young
Greg could hear countless stories of epic European
races and a find a worthy collection of European
racing magazines that illustrated all the passion
and tradition of the sport. Greg was hooked. As was
his style, Delia Santa hand built Greg LeMond's
first racing bikes in the conservative Italian style,
not the nervous, steep-angled, "criterium" style
many US builders of that era produced. LeMond,
as you'd imagine, tried countless bicycles over the
years but invariably returned to that traditional
Italianesque style.

Greg LeMond believes a bicycle should be stable on the road.
It should react calmly to steering inputs from its rider. The bicycle
should offer its rider a powerful, balanced position, easily
personalized by fore-and-aft saddle placement and stem length
choice. It should be relaxed in its head- and seat-tube angles.
Relaxed angles create reassuring stability — and a position of
comfort and control. A comfortable cyclist, balanced on the bike,
will ride faster, farther and in greater control. Racing (or fast club
riding) is difficult enough. Your bicycle should be on your side,
a precise, willing tool to be sure, never skittish, never headstrong,
never a cause for worry. Greg LeMond studied cycling's traditional
values early in his career. He took from that tradition its valuable
aspects and rejected what he found to be outmoded or narrow
in focus. The result is LeMond Geometry. Bikes meant to be ridden.

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Throughout the
upper end of the
LeMond line in 1999,
you'll find a large
commitment to
Rolf Vector wheel
systems. The search
for a lighter, better
performing wheels
has taken on almost
mythic proportions
in the racing world,
simply because
good wheels can
substantially
improve the way
a bike rides.

But the pursuit of higher performance
wheels has run into a host of problems:
Removing spokes from a conventional
wheel design only increases tension on the
alternating spokes and weakens the wheel.
The resulting excessive lateral forces
leads to high speed instability, wobble,
and premature wheel failure. Other designs
compensated for unbalanced lateral forces
with a taller, heavier rims. But that doesn't
solve the problem — heavier rims make
for heavier wheels. Another approach
was to throw out the idea of tensioned
spoke wheels altogether, and develop
a compressively loaded carbon composite
wheel. But these wheels are heavier,
give a harsher ride, and once the wheel
is damaged, it can't be repaired.

The Rolf solution?
Paired spoking. The Rolf
patented wheel design
eliminates unbalanced
lateral forces. Aligned in
pairs, each spoke sees only
half the dynamic tension
change that spokes in
traditional wheels endure.
Fewer stresses equals longer
life. Greater lateral wheel
strength enhances the use
of lighter rims with lower
cross section height.
Vector wheels are lighter,
accelerate faster, and are
less affected by crosswinds
than competing low-spoke-
count wheels.

Lightweight.
Aerodynamic.
Strong.
Serviceable.
Rolf Wheels -
Perfect for
LeMond Bikes