Posts Tagged ‘track’
From left to right: the aero down tube, the aero wheel-wrapping seat tube, the top tube (which I will be ovalizing), the bottom bracket shell, the head tube, and the chainstays (which I will also be ovalizing). I’ve also got a pair of chainstays (Columbus MAX) that Paul is hooking me up with. So it’ll [...]
There are parts! Bottom bracket, tubular tire tape, lockring, track cog, and such. So yeah, right now, it’s just a trickle of the cheap stuff, as I’m just sacrificing my bike shop paychecks for these things. Once the money starts to flow from the new full-time gig, I’ll be bringing in the handlebars, crankset, etc. [...]
So. I’ve started assembling parts — mostly the cheap stuff. Track cog and lockring, pedals, tubular tape, bottom bracket. I’m still waiting to hear back from Blue as to whether or not I can employee-purchase a frameset from them. If I haven’t heard anything from them by Wednesday, I’m going to give them a ring [...]
So I’ve narrowed the field to three possibilities: the Blue TR250 frameset the Fetish Attack frame the Trek T1 frameset Right now, the Fetish is leading the cost battle. The Blue is winning the appeal battle. I need to go get working on the spreadsheet that determines what we’re getting here. Figuring out parts and [...]
Okay, so I’m starting to narrow down my choices for a track frame: a Trek T1 frameset a Fetish Attack frame telling financial common sense to go “fuck itself” and buying a Bridgestone Anchor PHM9 (pictured, click for larger view) Obviously, given that this is my first season on the velodrome, I’m not dropping the [...]
So. I was all geared-up to employee purchase a Felt TK2 frameset to race on the track this year. Unfortunately — and not just for me — the shop I work for elected to drop Felt as a product line. I was pretty gung-ho about this frameset — I’ve always been impressed with Felts from [...]
I think I found a WP template that I am going to modify to create the template for this site. Pretty cool. Offseason project #1: pursuit bike. No question about this. Offseason project #2: single-speed mountain bike? Many questions about this — need? 26″ or 29″? Mix of the two? Huh. I still owe a [...]
