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Old 08-21-11 | 11:07 AM
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carpediemracing
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From: Tariffville, CT

Bikes: Tsunami road bikes, Dolan DF4 track

Nice. Kinda funny, my first pictures of the second Tsunami frame were all on couches, then floor (no outside area where I could take pictures that night), all with a cell phone. The pearl paint usually looks dull/dirty with my cell phone.

As far as weight goes, a truly custom frame will be so much better fitting that parts are secondary. My bike, which is considerably off the standard bell curve (same top tube as yours but a much shorter seat tube), is so good fit-wise that I could run Tiagra on it and it would be great (as long as I had good wheels, my bars, my stem, my pedals, my cranks... okay so not that much different). Your frame looks like it was made very tall, with a tall head tube. I have feeling that when you ride it it'll seem just a lot "better", i.e. it fits better, everything (bars/stem/saddle/pedals) is where it should be. I could get on a lighter bike but if it doesn't fit it doesn't fit. I did a few miles on a 10-ish pound bike, 55.5 tt, 51 st, but the bars were weird, and the bike, although light, didn't allow me to feel settled in.

As far as weight goes, if you really want a light bike, put the parts on a light frame. But for an optimized bike, you'll enjoy the fit of the custom, and hanging good functional parts on it will complete this. I have just regular stuff, nothing light (except the BB30 cranks, but that came on my Cannondale). The bike is fun. The original non-aero styled Tsunami was about 1440g, the new aero-style one is 1680?g, something like that.
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