This full build is gorgeous! Cannot wait to see this on the road.
http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/01/06/photos-leopard-trek-team-road-time-trial-bikes/#more-26541
Pure sex!!!
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This full build is gorgeous! Cannot wait to see this on the road.
http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/01/06/photos-leopard-trek-team-road-time-trial-bikes/#more-26541
I beg to differ, Rufus, I think that bike and those like it are fugly.
I'm with JBP on this one.
I appreciate the technology but it's only pretty from the front. You know, where you can't see much of it at all.
I appreciate the technology but it's only pretty from the front. You know, where you can't see much of it at all.
i get what they are trying to do, but that is hideous
Is that even UCI legal? Or Tri-geek only?
It is the new Trek Speed Concept TT bike for the Schleck Brothers and their new team, Team Trek/Leopard.
UCI legal without the little tool box. Adding that makes it more aero and not legal.
The bikes are cool...the Leopard colors...not so sure.
How aero can a bike be when the rider is,..well,...not so much.
Wasn't the Shiv basically a Walser? That design is pushing 10 years, right?
Still just plug-ugly. These bikes are esthetically equivalent to cars with tail fins in the late 1950s.
which were awwweeesooomee
Shiv is better looking, for sure.
But the SRAM road stuff hasn't been around long enough for me to think anything looks weird without it.
who cares about UCI legal & cookie cutter bikes. Pearsoncomposite.com for going fast!
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I saw this image on Velonews the other day that reminded me what a proper TT bike should look like:
Made to measure with aerodynamics, power production and handling balanced out optimally.
As simple as possible. As cheap as possible. A bike for real racing.
The rider accounts for 75% of drag.
These modern bikes that are designed and marketed for 40 year old amateur triatheletes with erectile dysfunction and more money than common sense are so full of hype, misinformation and bull**** "science" that offends rationality add nothing to the sport except unnecessary expense.
Even at the domestic professional level the same riders will win a race no matter what bike they are riding
All this ugliness and waste of resources for the sake of a few more dollars going into the pockets of the largest bike companies as they sell inconsequential improvements to people who don't need them is obscene.
I dig the F1 aspect of this stuff(which is important to half of one percent of all professional racers) but golly, i sure do resent how ugly and expensive the damn things are.
These bikes like the Shiv, Giant, Scott, Walser- they can stay.
These damn "organic" looking industrial design nightmares with "sexy curves" and "power bulges" just make me want to... rant on the internet.
Made to measure with aerodynamics, power production and handling balanced out optimally.
As simple as possible. As cheap as possible. A bike for real racing.
The rider accounts for 75% of drag.
These modern bikes that are designed and marketed for 40 year old amateur triatheletes with erectile dysfunction and more money than common sense are so full of hype, misinformation and bull**** "science" that offends rationality add nothing to the sport except unnecessary expense.
Even at the domestic professional level the same riders will win a race no matter what bike they are riding
All this ugliness and waste of resources for the sake of a few more dollars going into the pockets of the largest bike companies as they sell inconsequential improvements to people who don't need them is obscene.
I dig the F1 aspect of this stuff(which is important to half of one percent of all professional racers) but golly, i sure do resent how ugly and expensive the damn things are.
These bikes like the Shiv, Giant, Scott, Walser- they can stay.
These damn "organic" looking industrial design nightmares with "sexy curves" and "power bulges" just make me want to... rant on the internet.
and yet they still sell tons of those bikes that you hate so much
To the consumers I hate so much.
thats the nice thing i suppose to owning your own bike company. you cater to the people you want.
youre just a sales number to someone like Trek.
I have a few friends who are downhill racers that work at tri-specific shops.
You should hear the stories.
$6000 bikes with carbon wheels and tubular as dedicated training(as in on a stationary trainer) bikes... It only gets worse from there.
You should hear the stories.
$6000 bikes with carbon wheels and tubular as dedicated training(as in on a stationary trainer) bikes... It only gets worse from there.
you do have to admit though, im sure youd like to have some of that biz
The amount of time it takes to deal with neurotic rich people is mindblowing.
Expect phonecalls 3 times a day and constant emails.
Everytime I've tried to work with a Swiss-Banker type the amount of time that I've had to spend interacting with them has eroded my profits considerably.
It's something you have to experience to believe.
Expect phonecalls 3 times a day and constant emails.
Everytime I've tried to work with a Swiss-Banker type the amount of time that I've had to spend interacting with them has eroded my profits considerably.
It's something you have to experience to believe.
Dammit if they're going to spend $6k too much on a training bike they want to be damn sure they get the right one.
I can't stand Pinarello.
Seriously. It's incredible. I sold a guy a pair of identical Orbea Orcas with DA 7900, 404 tubies, etc so he could have one at both of his houses, and even the second one after he HAD OWNED THE EXACT SAME FVCKING BIKE FOR MONTHS took forever.
ahhh the 80's!!
this what you had in mind SD?
this what you had in mind SD?
or this?
Looking at current wind tunnel info on latest TT rigs I dont see any skinny steel aero tube bikes. Most are carbon, very expensive. Curious to see how much drag well made round tube steel bike has compared to latest crop of TT rigs. Talk about bad joke to consumers if all this time round skinny tubes have lower wind drag. Position & body type definetly key to this discipline, & power of course.
