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This is a fun group who loves cycling and likes to discuss the following. Training tips, locations, biking educate, races, P/R, and most of all encouragement for new riders.
After much deliberation, I've decided to go with a Bianchi 928 T-Cube. The Colnago
would have been neat, especially the idea of riding the same bike as the pros on my team,
but my shop needed to order 4 high end bikes, not including the frame I intended on
purchasing. This didn't upset me since the Colnago CX-1 was about $200 more than the
nicer Bianchi 928SL and about $1200 more than the Bianchi T-Cube, which is an approximate
equivalent.
I'm still planning on using Campy Record and trying to keep the bike around 14lbs or
so.
For the TT bike, I'm very pleased with it. I hope to get a team issued
skin suit for a little more speed and a local shop was offering good deals on the Zipp
Sub-9.
hope you can post some pics of that new ride.nothing like a new bike.cant go wrong with italian.unless its a eddy merckx.what a great early christmas gift from you to you.enjoy my freind.livingstrong
Speaking of Merckx, they have a bunch of new bikes coming out and I thought I heard they were sponsoring Quick Step. I didn't see if they sold a TT bike or not, but Merckx never used them and Quick Step could care lest about most TTs.
I'll post pics as soon as I can. I went with the white/black paintjob. Something about a pristine white race bike makes them seem so elegant. I was hoping to attend the Tour of Missouri again and see how many signatures I can get on it.
yes quick step will be on merkx's next year.and yes he does make a TT bike.i agree on thewhite.good choice all around.i had no doughts about the campy groupo.you have very good taste.livestrong and live long
I thought about Super Record, but there didn't seem to be much more advantage over Record and it was significantly more expensive. I'm going to ditch the Campy brakes for Zero Gravity, which isn't much more but 100g lighter. I was a little bummed that Campy went all 11 speed for next year since my other 2 bikes are Campy 10 speed.
hay man i here ya.i dont see the advantage of the 11 speed.other then marketing.but hay they didnt ask us.to me i would still stay full cmpy.but its your ride.livestrong
I see minimal advantage of the 11 speed, but don't have a lot of choice in the matter. My shop was able to track down some of the remaining 10 speed sets, but it will become a lot harder in the long run to keep getting parts. I think Campy has been intentionally behind on replacement 9 and 10 speed parts as a means to convince the move to the 11.
I believe the main theory behind the 11 speed is to have a smoother transition between some of the lower cogs. I've never bothered to memorize my cog set, but I rememer that there's a spot where it's more than a 3 tooth jump.
Ordinarily, I'd stick with all Campy, but their brakes are lacking this year. Zero Gravity is about the same price but 1/2 the weight! So, for less than $50 I'll be able to save 150g. It's unusual to be able to save 3g/1$, but I won't complain!
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