Equipment
The bikes Engers rode pioneered lightweight techniques, frequently featuring drilled out brakes, chainwheels and other components. The bikes were often designed and built by his friend and mentor, the late Alan Shorter. It was not uncommon for Engers to arrive at a morning event with a Shorter bicycle frame built the previous night and thus unpainted.
Engers also used large gears, creating a fashion that led to increasingly higher gears being used by many competitors, often inappropriately. For all this technical innovation, Engers' records were set in the days before low profile bikes, tri-bars, disc wheels and skin suits.
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