I just put a modern day 80th anniversary Campag Groupset on it to ride to the cafe and back! It was like super-light scandium at that time. It's white with a little bit of blue on it.
"I have an old Pinarello frame that was a prototype from the mid-90s that they built for Jan Ullrich in his early years at Team Telekom. I remember Stefano Zanini beat Franco Ballerini for fourth place, stopping a Mapei 1-2-3 – and 4! It's sitting in a corner now, but I'll find the parts to build it up and make it look proper." Ullrich prototype
That year, they also had titanium frames with full suspension, but the weather was dry and they used these. “I like it, that year they had the Bianchi's with RockShox all sprayed in Bianchi's celeste colours. I bought one of the original frames of Italian Nicola Minali, who used to ride for Gewiss-Ballan, his Paris-Roubaix frame.
"I have one of the classic Bianchi bikes used in Paris-Roubaix. That's why I was so in love with the bikes in the mid-90s." Ballerini Colnago C40 replica I still love the traditional side of the bike. I was chatting with Eddy Merckx about the Hour Record and the bicycle, how it’s changed, the wheels, the skinsuits, the helmets. "Bikes have changed so much, they're space-age now. It's more in terms of space." Wiggins adds. "I'll probably give up on the Vespas and Lambrettas. He also has boxing memorabilia, shoes and as Cycle Sport featured recently, scooters. Wiggins collected Belgian beers, until he drank his way through them all after the 2008 Athens Games. He proudly posts photographs of his new acquisitions on Instagram and happily talks about his collection.Īnd the bicycle collection is not the only one or was not the only one. For hoarders, every object is rich with detail,” they write. "It may stem from an extraordinary ability. In the book Stuff, Doctors Randy Frost and Gail Steketee write that hoarding may not be a subset of obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD, but a disorder of its own. One who collects for the sake of collecting and never really uses what he has. The obsession is what some doctors would call hoarding. At the moment, I have piles of stuff and I haven't really got around to building it all up.” I have a local shop that tools them and puts in the bottom brackets, and stuff. Wiggins has everything from the 80th anniversary Campagnolo Super Record to 1995 Shimano Dura-Ace groupsets – “all mint,” he says. Some are built, some are sitting alone waiting to be matched with kit and are yet to see the light of day. The same inspiration comes from the Jan Ullrich and Miguel Indurain bikes, or those frames from teams Gewiss-Ballan and Mapei. That was a big part of me and I'm not too cool to think that somehow that inspired me." Wiggins does not ride it, he just admires it. Bugno in black block letters and Polti, an Italian appliances manufacturer and former team sponsor, stand out on a carbon Fausto Coppi frame painted white. ‘Knock-out Black’ C40 M40 Y40 K100 : A process whereby text or forms are knocked-out of the black channel (and therefor, printing plate), but the cyan, magenta and yellow channels are either solid or filled to a certain extent (for example, gradients applied).
Track bikes are leaning one against another, some mixed in, like his Roubaix ride, with bikes from other eras. Beyond the Sky rides, Wiggins' collection includes team bikes or parts from his 14-year span as a road professional: FDJ's Lapierre, Crédit Agricole's Look, Cofidis's Time and Wilier, Highroad's Giant and Garmin's Felt.