Francesco Moser Personal Track Bike 1984

In Mexico City in 1984, Italian cycling superstar Francesco Moser ventured an attempt at the prestigious world hour record. Eddy Merckx had set it in 1972 and it had been unbroken since. To achieve his goal, “lo sceriffo“ took a different approach than Merckx did 12 years before. Merckx rode on a bike with classic geometry and drop bars, which was lightened to the maximum you could risk for such a power output. Moser thought differently, he t