Yippee... a whole page of black bikes...baahaa..baahaa..baahaa

Its only 5 bikes.

I like this bike a lot. How tall are you? Looks like it'd fit me, if you ever happen to want to ship it to Virginia and never see it again.

Love the Palace.

Tidy

What's protruding through the bar tape?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e0phxf6cbe...sthis.JPG?dl=1

And what kind of tape is that? Looks like Fizik Superlight?

I'd imagine it's the Di2 sprint shifter buttons, they let you shift from the drops without touching the levers.

It could be for the air horns.

More of this bike, please!

I googled it based on your answer and it is so. I'm really surprised that there isn't a more elegant solution, something other than ripping a hole in the tape.

i meant it in the nicest way, of course.
It looks like a formal combination of two different kinds of bikes, but not like a functional hybrid bike; an abnormal creature. If it were alive, it might be frightening, but since it's not, we can enjoy scrutinizing it in safety and comfort :)

You could tape around them, I guess.

They make ones for the tops for climbing.

My teammate has the drops shifters, climbing shifters on the tops, and another up/down toggle on the side of the stem, all in addition to the levers themselves. He seems to like the variety of options it gives.

I think our shop's mechanic had to do some creative splicing/drilling on his frame and bars to get everything to work smoothly. He managed 16,000 trouble-free miles this year, so I guess it worked.

Looking for some without rider. I think there are some posed ones someplace. I have to find them. I know I've posted before, likely a different thread.

At 28 seconds he used a hole punch. Learned some thjng new.

Found these in the race rig porn thread.
I do need to take more pictures I guess.
Top picture is with dirt tires.
http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment...2&d=1424830576

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment...6&d=1423702061

Don't know how picky Mr. Sagan is about the position, but sometimes you have to re-wrap so button goes through middle. The thin tape splits anyway. I do a cross with a razor blade.

Not sure what brand, but some, like Lizard Skin, are pretty thick. Some, like Bontrager cork (what I use) will tear from the razor blade. Using a hole punch should prevent or slow down the tape from tearing.

Now I get the red and white bar tape.

Love the bike and the look, but the Easton graphics are bit too much. I had Eastons on my Madone, but it looked too much like a rolling billboard. When i built my Emonda, I went to the other extreme.

http://glenn-ring.com/emonda/Madone_4.6.jpg

Peter and I use the same bar tape. I will assume this will make me faster.

That's Supacaz tape. In my opinion, much better than Lizard Skins...it's fairly thick and soft and sticky. From my experience with it, I'd say punching a hole in it wouldn't affect it for quite some time.

Thanks. I'm 182-3 cm. The frame would be pretty much a square 56 with parallel 73 degree head and seat tubes, except that the top tube is sloping.

Interesting. Which two kinds of bikes do you see there?

One that the fat down tube and its oversize graphics belong to, and another more conventional one.

Felt do pretty well with the matte black looks, because they're so practiced at it. Seems they've given up on colored frames.
This assembly looks too random to be hot. And is that a bidon or a motor you've got there?

That is a motor, invoked by a radio signal used for engaging a pin that uses chain power to shift.

I didn't think it was hot either - just fast.

But the water bottle - just that. Makes it faster, but generally not allowed in my son's races.