Lew isn’t the only one making sub-400 gram wheels. Topolino’s Rafe Schlanger’s new project front wheel weighs a mere 363 grams. It uses a Reynolds carbon rim and has a different method of attaching the spokes at the rim than other Topolino wheels.
American Classic’s Mag 300 wheelset features a 280-gram magnesium clincher rim. The magnesium clincher wheelset weighs 1165 grams and absorbs high-frequency vibration, thus soaking up road buzz and granting more comfort and less fatigue to the rider.
Velocity’s new rim decorations are actually stickers.
Delta 7’s Arantix frame uses carbon fibers arranged in an “Isotruss.” Delta 7 claims that it is lighter, stiffer, stronger, and more resistant to impact than traditional layered carbon frame constructions because the open structure isolates damage.
The Delta 7 Arantix’s down tube. All of these fibers are strung and tied by hand, resulting in a 300-hour frame construction time and hence a $7,000 frame price tag. Lizard Skin makes light, 1mm-thin stretch covers for using this bike in mud.
Eric Sampson’s new Stratics complete road group includes a carbon crank and svelte front derailleur in addition to these parts. The whole group is quite light; Sampson’s Show Time group has aluminum parts rather than carbon and is far less expensive.
Shimano’s new Dura-Ace carbon crank retails for $1300 and weighs 709 grams complete. It is 10 percent stiffer than a current Dura-Ace crank and has the new XTR-style adjuster against the left bearing cup to preload the bearings.
Bettini has been cleared to defend his title on Sunday
Evans has one last shot at glory this Sunday
Hincapie and his teammate-to-be for 2008, Hammond
The supporting cast includes Julich and Farrar
Bettini and Freire are among the favorites
Abbott, Armstrong and Neben
Abbott likes the course
Lewis hopes the race boils down to a small group
Hincapie has been speaking with Stapleton for some time now. The two are seen here, chatting during February's Tour of California
A familiar face showed up in the Industry Crit. Mario's still Super, eh?
Bright lights big city
The Cheerwine leadout train took Van Gilder to the line
In 2018, long after global warming, plague and warfare had scoured the rest of humanity from the Earth, Steve Tilford wins the inaugural Tour of America, which began in 2008
Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca announced late Thursday he was pulling out of the cycling world championships. Di Luca's withdrawal from Sunday's elite men's road race came after calls that he be handed a four month suspension for his connection with a drugs scandal by Italy's Olympic Committee (CONI). "It's a scandal, the procurer has done everything so that I don't compete at the championships," said the Italian. Di Luca's withdrawal out came after a dramatic day at the world championships in which world road champion Paolo Bettini was reported to have
Bettini wants to ride, but won't give blood to do so.
Eisenmann says organizers insist on compliance
A perfect weather day yesterday ended with a road ride back to the stripwith three friends from SRAM, and today started for me with a ride backout to the Outdoor Demo at Boulder City’s Bootleg Canyon. After 5-10 minutesof standing around, I took off with maybe 100 other riders for the annualTourof Lake Mead, formerly known as The Hangover Ride. Still cool, verywindy and hilly, this 24-mile out-and-back offers some great views andcan offer a punishing pace at the front. I may have gotten a great warmup to riding mountain bikes at the pre-Interbikedemo, but before I got to ride my first bike
Ryan Trebon (Kona-Les Gets) and Lyne Bessette (Cyclocrossworld.com) won the inaugural Excel Sports CrossVegas Wednesday in Las Vegas. [nid:40750]A thousands-strong crowd journeyed to the Desert Breeze Soccer Complex to watch the first major cyclo-cross race to be held in conjunction with the Interbike trade show, running this week at the Sands Expo & Convention Center. CrossVegas was the brainchild of Coloradan Chris Grealish, a longtime 'cross promoter who organized the 2006 Boulder Cup, the fifth round of the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross Series.
Prosecutors have demanded that former world cycling champion Johan Museeuw be given a "hefty fine" as the doping trial against him and ten others opened in Courtrai, Belgium, on Thursday. Museeuw, along with six riders including Mario De Clercq, Jo Planckaert and Chris Peers and four others including the chief defendant, veterinarian Jose Landuyt, are accused of trafficking and taking banned performance-enhancing drugs. Prosecutors demanded a two year sentence, half of it suspended, for Landuyt, and an 18-month sentence, half of it suspended, against Herman Verseele, the physiotherapist who
Fabian Cancellara might have been satisfied with his 2007 season after wearing the yellow jersey for the better part of a week and winning two stages at the Tour de France, but the chance to defend his rainbow jersey in the elite men’s world time trial race proved too alluring. Laszlo Bodrogi of Hungary claimed silver at 52 seconds off the pace with Dutch rider Stef Clement taking bronze at 57 seconds slower on the rolling 44.9km course in the hills around Stuttgart,. But this show was all about Cancellara. The big Swiss time machine caught his one-minute man, Vladimir Gusev of Russia, at
It was a soggy day in Stuttgart as the elite men set off in pursuit of the world time-trial title. But a little rain couldn't keep Fabian Cancellara off the top step of the podium for the second consecutive year. Nor could it prevent Casey Gibson from chronicling the day's action.
Cycling’s international racing calendar was turned upside down Thursday after the UCI announced that the three grand tours and select one-day classics are no longer part of the ProTour cycling calendar. In a sweeping restructuring of the European racing calendar, the UCI vows to forge ahead with its controversial ProTour concept that will open with the Tour Down Under in 2008 and potentially include national tours in China and Russia in 2009. “This is about being realistic and pragmatic,” McQuaid said. “It’s not a position that the UCI has created. (The grand tours) could have come aboard
Nearly 19,000 people packed into the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the opening day of the indoor portion of the 2007 Interbike trade show on Wednesday. Aisles were packed and booths were abuzz on the show’s opening day. And besides the goings-on inside, two races were organized alongside the show. The first was the Boulder-Denver Courier Events-produced Excel Sports CrossVegas, held Wednesday night. Kona-YourKey.com’s Ryan Trebon won the well-attended event — and in the process took some revenge on Christian Heule (Stevens), who won Star Crossed and the Rad Racing
Frank Arokiasamy, the man behind the proposed 27-stage Tour of America in 2008, realizes racers and race fans are skeptical of his plans for the race from New York City to San Francisco. Nonetheless, he has hired a 25-person team to handle logistics, sponsorship, team management and other hurdles — including convincing people that he is serious. “I’ve been working on this for the last five years,” Arokiasamy said. “It started, actually, while I was watching the Tour de France, July 2002. I was watching the American really dominate the race. I got frustrated because … I couldn’t watch the
Specialized founder and president Mike Sinyard, along with trusted colleagues Chris D’Alusio, Don Langley, and Mark Reidy and friends Randy Berggold and Mark Duroy arriving after riding from Morgan Hill, CA to Boulder City, NV
A good champagne dousing awaited the six riders after their 600-mile, 5-day odyssey. Reidy said, “at times, with Chris and Don on the front, this was hard as the (famously hard) Specialized lunch ride, in the middle of a 140-mile day!”
A well-deserved champagne toast from water bottles was bittersweet “Yesterday we were feeling sad it was almost over,” said Sinyard. “It was a fantastic ride. You can’t imagine riding across Death Valley!”
Tire Balls as packaged, 30 per tire, pre-inflated. Currently, they are only made for downhill tires.
Thisis why you can’t pinch flat with Tire Balls; the air can’t move out of the way when you your tire hits a sharp edge. Instead of moving, the air must stay right there and increase the pressure, like a progressive spring in an air shock.
Installing the tire with Tire Balls in it is no easy task, as they are already inflated (with a basketball pump) before you put the tire on the rim.
The inside of a TAG wheel.
TRP (Tektro Racing Products) cyclocross cantilever brakes, in carbon (top) and aluminum in various colors.
TRP's low-profile carbon cantilevers
Outdoor Demo Day 2 - A Zinn's Eye View
This Spot Brand steel belt-drive single speed 29er is decorated with heat marks and clear powder coated.
The Spot beltring won’t leave a rookie mark on your leg like a chainring can.
The Carbon Drive Systems (CDS) belt has carbon strands in it and is almost unbreakable under tension.
The dropout for a belt drive must come apart, else you could not install the belt on the bike. CDS sells dropouts like this with a key that allows it to open up.
The Lenz Sport Milk Money is a shiny, full-suspension single speed 29er with 80mm of rear travel and nary a cable guide to break up its clean lines.
The concentric pivot of the Lenz Milk Money. As the swingarm pivots on the bottom bracket shell, the length of the chain does not change as the suspension compresses – a critical feature of a single-speed full-suspension bike.
Lenz dropouts are horizontally adjustable to properly tension the chain. Since the seatstay bolts to the dropout, this is one design that could work with the CDS (Spot) belt drive, since you could swing the seatstay out of the way to install the belt
You lube the Milk Money’s pivot with an automotive grease gun through the Zerk fitting under the bottom bracket.
Cancellara repeats as world time-trial champ
Cancellara burns up the soggy course
Bodrogi takes silver
Clement finishes with bronze
Zabriskie had a disappointing ride, finishing 12th
The champ redux
Some soggy spectators
Michael Schar gets a Swiss sendoff, complete with bells
'Scuse me, pal, can I squeeze a shot off here?
Cameron Wurf of Australia rolls onto the course
With just minutes to go before his start, Zabriskie learns his TT bars are too long for the UCI's liking
Thus a mechanic finds himself with a last-minute fix to make
Cancellara's bars, just before the start
Three ... two ... one ...
The national champ leads the way under the lights
The men's podium
The women's podium
Lynskey Performance had custom titanium cruiser in its booth, it seems the Ti cruiser is a staple showpiece for custom titanium builders.
Lynskey’s line bumps up the performance ladder by adding more radical shaping to its titanium tubes. Lynskey is also offering a performance guarantee, where they build specifically to a customer’s performance attributes, whether it be weight, a ce
While Lynskey still had some wacky ’80s inspired paint jobs in its booth they also had some more retro chic graphics, like this SS paint job on a Level 3 frame.
Bob Parlee debuted his all carbon time-trial and triathlon bike this year at Interbike. Like Parlee’s Z1 through Z3 models the bike is fully custom to its buyer. Every tube that sees the wind on this $8500 frame has a true NACA airfoil shape.
The final production bike will have a choice of horizontal dropouts so that the rear wheel can be tucked up into the seat tube. The seat stays are also designed using NACA shapes.
The rear brake is tucked up under the bottom bracket.
One of the coolest items Parlee had at the booth was its carbon fiber braze on front derailleur adaptor. Not only does the adaptor save 30 grams off of an aluminum mount, it protects delicate carbon seat tubes.
BH is making a strong push into the U.S. market under the guidance of Chris Cocalis, the founder of Titus Cycles. The Connect has an 890-gram frame and comes in four sizes and with four different gruppo choices.
The G4 will be AG2R’s team bike next year. It comes in three sizes and has an integrated seat mast. A medium frame weighs 860 grams and is paired to a 315-gram fork.
Cocalis will also be back on the dirt with his new mountain bike company Pivot. There are two frame models in the Pivot line, both of which were designed by Cocalis with the help of suspension mastermind Dave Weagle using a version of his DW-Link
Pivot models have a direct mount for an E-Type front derailleur and 92.5mm bottom bracket shell that accepts a slip fit Shimano carbon resin integrated bottom bracket like that found on Yeti’s new carbon ASR.
Cervélo’s new RS has a longer head tube and chain stays for a more upright ride. Seat stays have been -shaped to offer more rear-wheel traction. Frame and fork will cost $2200; a Dura-Ace-equipped bike costs $4000
At CrossVegas Lyne Bessette and Jeremy Powers debuted the cyclocrossworld.com team painted Ridley X-Fire
The bikes sport Mavic wheels; the tubular R-SYS is shown with Dugast Typhoon tires. TRP brakes handle deceleration; Powers uses the new EuroX model