nope. but it will make it this sunday to some race in south east michigan.....a real important one too. i think richard groendaal is coming out of retirement just for it.
nope. but it will make it this sunday to some race in south east michigan.....a real important one too. i think richard groendaal is coming out of retirement just for it.
woiuld you believe i haven't seen it yet and i'm nervous as shit? maybe it'll be in the mail today!
No need. It's a nice two-page spread. He clearly loves the bike and even mentions how you deftly put him in his place when he became "too fey" in discussing how he wanted the bike to ride.
Props to Bicycling (I know...) for doing a decent job of explaining the alternative to the carbon offerings from the big boys.
Yeah, I just got my copy an hour ago and read it. Pretty awesome. I would seriously like to know what this does for sales volume.
i really like bicycling magazine. it's also the only cycling magazine people who do not work in the bike industry ever read. its reach is huge, and the article was phenomenal. i can not believe how great the photography is, i've always admired bill strickland as an writer- but his enthusiasm, eloquence and observations regarding my bike were amazing. i'm really, really lucky to have had my bike reviewed by the editor of the biggest bicycle magazine in the country in such a great way; two pages too!
but to your point- i have no idea what it will do for sales- but i'm thinking it'll be pretty huge. the thing has a circulation of 400,000. holy fuck i better keep the phone charged.
in the end though, i'm just psyched that bill liked the bike in the same way i'm always surprised and psyched when any client tells me how much they like their bike. i know my bikes are fine....but hearing it from other people, always makes me say "really?".rationally i shouldn't be surprised, but emotionally i always am.
thanks for the kind words everyone. go buy the magazine.
I saw a photo he posted of 'zetti before a race or something he was doing - it was pretty close to slammed. The bike was sent out that way though so maybe they photographed it on arrival.
here's some teaser shots of the inox. i took it out for it's maiden ride today and i'm impressed. we've just received the production version of our stainless tubesets from kva which are even lighter. this thing is everything i wanted in a dirt road/pave bike which is kinda what i expected- but i'm really suprised by its manners on the road. the thing is super super solid but if anything has a bit smoother ride than my BLE or my memories of my old SPX and MX tubed Merckxs. It seems to have a bit more planted and solid feel than those bikes too- something i didn't really think possible. big round tubes really make a bike work right. check out that rear tire clearance too!
we are spec'ing serotta forks that are built with a little bit more clearance and a rake of 47mm in the stiffest lay-up possible. they're really, really nice forks. the whole idea behind this thing is to make the ideal paris-roubaix bike. it's super stiff so it'll hold its line over all sorts of shit but it's long and low enough that it won't kick your ass off the thing when you slam in to the corner of a cobblestone at 50km/h. it does fine with changes in tempo- it climbs nicely- but the bike is really designed to motor along really fast on shitty roads or surfaces that pretend to be roads. the isp keeps the whole thing feeling really planted and solid to- although for some reason i anticipate most of my clients for the inox are probably going to opt for a regular seatpost.
the proportions on the production bike will differ a tiny bit. i've got custom chainstays that are a bit taller, we're going to use a 31.8 butted top tube and seat tube in stead of the 35mm ones on this thing... (there were signifigant weight savings acheived doing this, and as far as my measly 1680 watts and our computer models can tell not any real difference in torsional rigidity)...plus it makes the bike look a bit better and the headtube doesn't look as tiny.
The tube profiles were my other question. The photos make the top, seat and down tube all look the same diameter and from your above comments that seems to be true. No reason to ask questions about them if they won't be that way in production.
The tube profiles were my other question. The photos make the top, seat and down tube all look the same diameter and from your above comments that seems to be true. No reason to ask questions about them if they won't be that way in production.
the seat and top tubes on this bike are both 35mm- the downtube is 38mm and we're sticking with that tube diameter for that pipe.
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