TVT road frame

[conasata2]

Just got my hands on a mint TVT frame set. Lovely alloy lugs, carbon tubing and forks.i think it's a Kevlar/carbon mix. There is a petrol blue colour when you look at it in a certain light. The decals on the downtube are faded but the tvt head badge is still present along with a tvt decal on the seat tube.
I'll post pictures in the morning.
Any info on these frames?

 

[rusty bodie]

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the tvt frames were first seen in the 1986 season, used by hinault, lemond and co in the la vie claire team.
the revamped team used a black carbon version of the same frame in 1987 and pedro delgado went on to win the 1988 tour de france with a nice deep red laquered tvt in his reynolds team.
delgado, indurain and the banesto team took the tvt well into the 90s.

somewhere around 1990, steve bauer rode for the weinmann la suisse team in a similarly coloured tvt to the one that you describe and own.

it remains one of the nicest looking frames i've ever seen and certainly the lightest frame i've ever owned.

nice purchase!

 

[conasata2]

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Finally some pictures
I weighed the frame including headset and forks and it comes in at 1840g. Lightest frame I've owned
Whoops files are too big. Can't seem to upload photos

 

[rusty bodie]

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join photobucket and copy and paste the IMG codes into the reply box on this forum . . easy.

 

[conasata2]

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Thanks for that.