To jump on the alloy bandwagon, here's the new bike. Some of you may have seen the old "rain bike," the scandium/carbon Easton bike, that was a size small, just didn't end up being big enough for me.
On my last trip to Taiwan I picked this up from one of the nicer factories. Full alloy, it was raw alloy when I got it, sloping TT, slightly taller HT, all in all a good winter bike. Took it to Olympic Powdercoating in the OC just before Xmas, and after some hemming and hawing, chose a pretty rad light gray color. No decals yet, I'm trying to find something cool/fun/bright to put on there, no brand names thought. 1140g in a 58cm *after* powdercoating, so pretty damn light for an alloy bike that big.
I decided to one-up the old Ultegra bike and use some Dura Ace I had. I also took the EC90 fork, EA70 bar, and Orion II wheels off of the older bike. Look KEO HM pedals, an EA90 stem, Prologo Scratch saddle, and FSA K-Force post round out the build. Thought about alloy for the post, but the carbon post will take a little bit of the edge off I think, especially in 27.2mm.
16.74lbs as she sits here, and a nice taut ride to boot. (un)Luckily I'm off to Taiwan again on Saturday, so I probably won't get too much of a chance to ride it, maybe once or twice this week.
On my last trip to Taiwan I picked this up from one of the nicer factories. Full alloy, it was raw alloy when I got it, sloping TT, slightly taller HT, all in all a good winter bike. Took it to Olympic Powdercoating in the OC just before Xmas, and after some hemming and hawing, chose a pretty rad light gray color. No decals yet, I'm trying to find something cool/fun/bright to put on there, no brand names thought. 1140g in a 58cm *after* powdercoating, so pretty damn light for an alloy bike that big.
I decided to one-up the old Ultegra bike and use some Dura Ace I had. I also took the EC90 fork, EA70 bar, and Orion II wheels off of the older bike. Look KEO HM pedals, an EA90 stem, Prologo Scratch saddle, and FSA K-Force post round out the build. Thought about alloy for the post, but the carbon post will take a little bit of the edge off I think, especially in 27.2mm.
16.74lbs as she sits here, and a nice taut ride to boot. (un)Luckily I'm off to Taiwan again on Saturday, so I probably won't get too much of a chance to ride it, maybe once or twice this week.
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