Hey, just curious. Did you repaint your Dual? If so, did you do it yourself? I have some experience with painting bike frames but it's always been fixed gears and older frames, so there wasn't much to lose. I've painted and clear coated 3 or 4 frames and have gotten some pretty professional results but am a bit weary about painting my Dual since I don't exactly have the money to replace an expensive time trial frame. Did you take it somewhere? How about the decals? I really like your setup.

strukljv - I have a friend that owns a bike shop and used to work at Rocky Mountain. He just called in a favour and I had two frame painted at the factory when they were doing black bikes. I had to wait a bit but it was worth it. As for the decals, I contacted a guy on the Slowtwitch website that does decals and lives in Hawaii. I just gave him an idea of what I wanted and he made them up for me.

Another Leader owner here, built her up about 3 weeks ago:

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8411/dsc00067ab6.jpg

Another Leader owner here, built her up about 3 weeks ago:

I think the Leader is a great buy. I still have one tucked away in my shed, someday when I need another TT bike I might build it up as a training bike.

I thought I would post one more picture of my Pedal Force, now that it has a new shoe!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/bhmmrtn/Bicycles/Aeroblade/SG1S1740.jpg

That thing is HOT! I really hope Pedal Force does an aeroblade groupbuy sometime soon.

Darn, I just can't seem to get my images any bigger than that. If anyone has a secret let me know how.

Clipin, sign up for a free hosting account on flickr, picassa, photobucket, etc. You upload your picture to the host then link to it here. If you do that you won't be limited to the 100k attachment limit that only allow small pictures. Then use the image icon on the editor or use the |IMG||/IMG| tags (note that the '|' symbol are actually square brackets).

I thought I would post one more picture of my Pedal Force, now that it has a new shoe!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/bhmmrtn/Bicycles/Aeroblade/SG1S1740.jpg

really you probably convinced me to buy a pedalforce, they give you better bang for your buck and i really did want a simple colored blakc frame...... how does she ride???

really you probably convinced me to buy a pedalforce, they give you better bang for your buck and i really did want a simple colored blakc frame...... how does she ride???

Please note that I only have a few training rides on the Pedal Force so it is hard to be objective (still has the new bike smell). I have not ridden on the disc yet either, except literally around the block once. What I can say is that compared to my Leader it is much smoother on the road and seems to glide just a bit easier. I have spent most of my time this year on our tandem, training and participating in a few metric centuries so there has been really no time to ride this at all. After Monday, all my planned rides are done for the year, so I will have the opportunity to really test it out on the road. The training configuration will be two 50mm deep carbon wheels, then I will switch to the rear disk for any event I might do later in the year.

One of the things that led me to the Pedal Force is that I was looking real hard at the Planet X Stealth. I had read very good reviews of it on-line. I also had previous experience with Pedal Force as I own three of their road frames. I also saw that last year Willier without their own TT bike rebranded this exact frame in some of their pro races. That was enough to tip the scale in the Pedal Force's favor. That and the low frame price compared to the other options available.

Since this is a picture thread and not a review thread, I will add another picture here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/bhmmrtn/Bicycles/Aeroblade/SG1S1737.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/bhmmrtn/Bicycles/Aeroblade/SG1S1737.jpg

Pure. Sex.

i love how simple yet out there it is, if you get what i mean. and the logos arent huge just big enough so you can see them. this is ganna give the argon 18 i wanted b4 some huge competition, but then again i dont plan to have enough money to buy a tri bike for another 6 months to a year kuz i needa save up. heh. so i dont knwo whats ganna come out around that time and what will be marked down etc.

Naked Litespeed Saber

http://www.underwaterplanet.com/gallery/albums/album07/Bike.jpg

Please note that I only have a few training rides on the Pedal Force so it is hard to be objective (still has the new bike smell). I have not ridden on the disc yet either, except literally around the block once. What I can say is that compared to my Leader it is much smoother on the road and seems to glide just a bit easier. I have spent most of my time this year on our tandem, training and participating in a few metric centuries so there has been really no time to ride this at all. After Monday, all my planned rides are done for the year, so I will have the opportunity to really test it out on the road. The training configuration will be two 50mm deep carbon wheels, then I will switch to the rear disk for any event I might do later in the year.

One of the things that led me to the Pedal Force is that I was looking real hard at the Planet X Stealth. I had read very good reviews of it on-line. I also had previous experience with Pedal Force as I own three of their road frames. I also saw that last year Willier without their own TT bike rebranded this exact frame in some of their pro races. That was enough to tip the scale in the Pedal Force's favor. That and the low frame price compared to the other options available.

Since this is a picture thread and not a review thread, I will add another picture here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/bhmmrtn/Bicycles/Aeroblade/SG1S1737.jpg

That's a very very hot bike.

I too was looking closely at the Planet-X Stealth (which, for any of the readership that isn't aware, is the exact same frame) - a very very common frame on the Tri and TT circuit around here. It was almost a toss-up between it and the Focus Izalco Tria - I ultimately decided to get the Focus, really just for the slightly higher value as a fully-built bike... But that very day stopped in at my LBS and made them a low-ball offer on a Specialized S-Works Transition that had been in their window for a while (being coveted by me and many others in town - everyone even knew exactly the bike when I mentioned where I'd got it). So I went with that, but at MSRP, the Stealth frame is a great buy - though so is the Izalco Tria.

That's still a very hot bike you've got there.

Clipin, sign up for a free hosting account on flickr, picassa, photobucket, etc. You upload your picture to the host then link to it here. If you do that you won't be limited to the 100k attachment limit that only allow small pictures. Then use the image icon on the editor or use the |IMG||/IMG| tags (note that the '|' symbol are actually square brackets).

WW, thanks for the note. I'm reading it now (Wednesday 25th) just before going on holiday with the other half. I will try a free hosting method and hopefully get more photos of other bikes at our computrainer facility.

new ride..Way more bike than I need but very smooth....

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii10/haenous/b2.jpg

added after pic: Cervelo Carbon Post, Profile T2 Wing Base Bar, Easton EC90 Carbon Stem, Profile Tri Stryke Elite Saddle.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2604015264_92561c53c5_b.jpg

Not quite a Tri Bike, instead, a road bike set up for Tri and TT, but it's mine and I just rode her for my first Triathlon Saturday!

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/TomStormcrowe/First%20Triathlon/Triathlon110.jpg

Not the usual cervelo, but 3.2k later
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/ardents/DSC02007.jpg
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/ardents/DSC02006.jpg

beautiful Blue...nice ride man

[QUOTE=ardents;6984725]Not the usual cervelo, but 3.2k later
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/ardents/DSC02007.jpgQUOTE]

ardents,

those Blackwell 101s are SICK wheels!! how do they ride?

thats one busy looking rig... sorry i was just over in the road forum and am still feeling a little elitist. But thats one fine looking blue. Are you goin to cut down the steertube?

i just rode it at Lake Stevens 70.3 tri. it was fast and smooth at 145 psi. I'll eventually cut down the steer tube when i find time. But tri bikes are different from roadies, we have a lot going on always. i did take off the down tube waterbottle holder and the behind the seat post holders, but added an aerobottle inbetween the aerobars and had 4 goos ducktaped to the top tube and a pitstop tubular sealer taped to the seatpost

Planet-X stealth, fsa, ultegra, vision cockpit....race-ready for state time trial near houston next week, then us open tri in dallas in October.

http://funwithstamping.com/images/px-stealth-disc-sm.jpg

Here's my new Trek E7:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd322/havs1023/IMG_2554.jpg
Still need to get the pedals and computer on before the 1st ride tomorrow. The 1st race for her is in 3 weeks! I'll post the report on the race.

new ride..Way more bike than I need but very smooth....

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii10/haenous/b2.jpg

What's the deal with the rovals on the felt?

I'm not one to talk, I've got them on my P3C - but I switched out the rovals from my tarmac with the shimano crap that came with the P3C.

Updated my Leader:
Here it is with my home made disc wheel and the carbon seat post flipped around so my aero position is much more comfortable ( I have weeny little arms, so it was a long reach ). Note new horizontal dropout ( closed up the rear wheel gap ) in the right pic..

Under 1grand ebay special.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/2364945451_602657a06c.jpg?v=0

An update to my Leader:
added: xtr long cage rear deraileur ( what a nice piece.. )
FSA chainring, after my worn shimano chainring ate my leg - 9 stitches.
Cut down my aero bars a bit.
Finished my bar tape and rerouted my cables better
Gave up on the Azzotto seat - LBS took my money and closed the store
Heart rate monitor now mounted on the bars
Still to go: Tufo Tubular clinchers sitting in customs.. 220 psi, here we gooo..
( It may not look like a big drop - but I have short arms, long legs and scoliosis, so for a
guy that can't touch his toes - it's a good drop. )
http://ca.geocities.com/joevella3@rogers.com/CIMG2694s.JPG

what kind of disc is that?

That is a home made disc.
I did eventually get an Azotto seat - as you can see in the pics, from a nice guy on ebay.
The LBS shut down - and still has my money.
I tried the tufo tubular clinchers for a year and a bit @ 220 psi. but I'm going back to my vittorias ( as you can see installed on the disc ).

New wheels !

Before:
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/jerseyboyyeah/P2CRevX.jpg

During:
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/jerseyboyyeah/DSC00349.jpg

After:
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/jerseyboyyeah/P2CZipp.jpg
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/jerseyboyyeah/P2CSharkTeeth.jpg
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/jerseyboyyeah/4angle.jpg

That is a home made disc.
I did eventually get an Azotto seat - as you can see in the pics, from a nice guy on ebay.
The LBS shut down - and still has my money.
I tried the tufo tubular clinchers for a year and a bit @ 220 psi. but I'm going back to my vittorias ( as you can see installed on the disc ).

Tublar clinchers are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tublar clinchers are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The tubular clinchers are great on the Rev-X because I don't fear failing the rim with them.
They also make the rim extremely stiff when pumped up to 220PSI.
However, the 23C's I run are not very aero, as there is a pronounced difference between the tire and the rim - not a big deal if you're not running an aero rim. They felt noticably slower right away when I put them on.
Also - I have trouble inflating them to 220 psi, and have gone through a few compressors.
In rolling resistance tests they fare only fair when pumped up to 220 - which they hardly ever do when their doing tire tests - and of course much worse when left at low pressure.

New wheels !

You didn't like your Rev-X's? Why?

You didn't like your Rev-X's? Why?

Not that I didn't like them. I LOVED them. But there was a chip that developed on the spoke and me being a paranoid pansy, could not bring myself to ride them any longer on my P2C for fear of failure and destroying not only my wheels, but my frame as well. But the Rev X's were one sweet wheel for the 4 years that I had it. It made my P2C fly!

*sigh* ... wish spinergy or someone else would make a rev x evolutionary comeback (and not talking about corima or xentis wheels either.)

I agree 100% here. My rear rev-x had a disastrous incident when my deraileur hanger broke and fell into it. I repaired it, but have been suspicious of it since then - hence the disc. I hope to have my front rev-x on my P2C when I start working on that project - maybe next year.

Not that I didn't like them. I LOVED them. But there was a chip that developed on the spoke and me being a paranoid pansy, could not bring myself to ride them any longer on my P2C for fear of failure and destroying not only my wheels, but my frame as well. But the Rev X's were one sweet wheel for the 4 years that I had it. It made my P2C fly!

*sigh* ... wish spinergy or someone else would make a rev x evolutionary comeback (and not talking about corima or xentis wheels either.)

That is a home made disc.

sorry I guess I forgot to read your post :roflmao2:
newb question here but how do you make a disk wheel?

sorry I guess I forgot to read your post :roflmao2:
newb question here but how do you make a disk wheel?

Ahh - I'm going to have to do a write up on that - but it's a cover. I started from someone elses write up, but have refined it now. The wheel is covered with MonoKote - if you don't know what that is, it's a heat shrink mylar covering normally used on model aircraft.
It weighs 1/5 oz per sq. ft. You start with a conventional wheel, with a rim with an edge that you can adhere to ( I used an alex DA22 ) then you have to apply either double sided tape ( the original posters method ) or hot glue ( my new refined method ) which can be shaved with an exacto knife to make the edge parallel to the braking surface ( eliminates peeling of the skin when ironed on ). You need to make reinforcing rings at the hub and the inflation access. these rings should be no more than 1/2 in wide or they will look ugly ( BTDT ). then begin ironing the cover in place. It works quite slick. Use Trim MonoKote which you apply without ironing to produce any design you want over the shrunk cover. I do have the material to make a real disc wheel - but I want to make sure I like it ( with respect to wind handling ) before I make the extra effort.

Thanks! I really like the "reflective" look of them.

I have *never*, ever heard of a tire that performs well on the road at 220 PSI. I will *guarantee* you that if you run your tires at 120psi instead of 220psi you'll be much faster (plus you won't have to keep buying air compressors.

The whole point of putting air in the tires is so that the tire acts as the "suspension" on the bike, and if you have too much air in the tires the bike bounces harshly over the terrain, losing forward energy with each bounce. You want there to be some give in the tires so that they glide smoothly over the bumpy road surface, absorbing the bumps and not bouncing the bike at all.

Now, on the smooth track at the velodrome, high pressure is much more desirable as there aren't any bumps on the riding surface.

Also, why the brake levers on the aerobars? Usually, if you're braking in a triathlon (going into a tight corner), you're on the bullhorns anyway. Seems like a mistake to me. There's a reason the "aero or die" setups of the 80s and early 90s went out of style quickly.

Although I stay on the aero bars, I have an auxiliary brake lever on the base bar for when I'm on the drops.
I really prefer to have the brakes close by - particularly in traffic. So I can brake on the drops or in the aero bars.

The tufo's have a lot of drag when not pumped up - per the tire tests. there is a reason they are rated for 220 psi - that's when their rolling friction starts to be competitive with other tires. The roads around here are all freshly paved, within the last couple of years, and are very smooth - that's why a bunch of time trials are run around here.

In any case - even when pumped up high I found them draggy. If pumped up to only 120 psi - which is below the lowest recommended pressure ( 145 psi ) - by the tire test they have about twice the friction of the competition ( that's from memory - I haven't looked at it in a while ). However at high pressures they were well suited to the Spinergy's as they stiffend them up, while not putting undue outward pressure on the rim.

I enjoyed trying them out, but I've moved on.

My new Tri bike... Love the stability and the pure efficiency of it. Super adjustable means that I can easily dial in the perfect position depending on the race (slightly lower and longer for shorter TT's and higher but comfortable for longer distances).

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r233/audiojan/496%20Tri/P1030462.jpg

Recently refinished Calfee ...

Heres my Cannondale SLice 07 with Dura-ace and Corima Wheels...the best part, easy to locate due to color and very stable in flat conditions...

Under 1grand ebay special.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/2364945451_602657a06c.jpg?v=0

is that the brew that was up a while ago with green and black paint?

is that the brew that was up a while ago with green and black paint?

No, it was black and tatered when I got my hands on it, gave it a powder coat and it came up nicely.

I'm not sure if I posted this yet. There's been some changes, this was right after it was built it up.

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc70/ipull400watts/Y%20Foil/05-25-08_1315.jpg

since I just updated mine extensively it deserves a repost:

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e302/tommy861/IMG_0249.jpg

Rode my soft ride to qualify for the National Age Group Triathlon here at the CapTexTri
http://austinbikeblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/20080525_275695_p19.jpg

Planet-X stealth, fsa, ultegra, vision cockpit....race-ready for state time trial near houston next week, then us open tri in dallas in October.

http://funwithstamping.com/images/px-stealth-disc-sm.jpg

I would never have considered myself a real fan of white frames...until now.

I would never have considered myself a real fan of white frames...until now.



White is the fastest color. It's science.