This isn’t so common on this blog, rimbrakes… And pretty heavy ones too. But when looks, function and price comes before weight it end up like this. Sold my Engage brakes that was 130g lighter as they wheren’t feeling that good and didn’t suit my Colnago perfectly. My C40 demanded Campagnolo Skeleton brakes.
And while Potenza is a cheap group I think the brakes looks pretty good 🙂 Satisfied and the bike is ready to be used again (after winter passed).
My sore body wasn’t liking the idea of riding gravel today so instead I joined some friends for an easy caféride around Vaxholm. Went up a bit earlier to finish my cafébike:
My Colnago C40 is finished! 7,16kg Italian beauty that rode like a dream. The C40 was the first carbon fibre bike in the pro peloton and was around from 1994 to the latest version (mine) in 2004. So how good is a 13 year old roadbike? It’s really good, really happy with how it felt.
Built with some of my favorite components like:
Campagnolo 11-speed group
Deda Newton Shallow handlebar
Specialized S-works Toupe saddle
Specialized Turbo tubulars
Time Xpresso pedals
Fizik Superlight 2mm bartape
and always tuned with some light parts like Tune U20 QR, Specialized titanium bottle cage and Engage Gavial brakes.
A success includes great friends and a good guide:
And fika:
A great recovery ride with beautiful views and ferries:
It’s nice sometimes to be a bit classic and think that style more prioritized than performance. Just plain simple like white socks 😀
Map and stats: Strava
Campagnolo Chorus crankset. 172,5mm arms and 36/52 chainrings for my Colnago. Got feeling and got my favorite bar tape. Fizik Superlight Classic touch in 2mm. Together with Deda Newton Shallow and Campagnolo Chorus Ergopower it’s a big try to get it perfect but I think I succeeded:
Now just missing some small things and new tires to make this bike ready for sunny summer rides 🙂
Sometimes when I see a bike it falls in my taste. This 6983g BMC SLR02 did, like the lines and how it’s built:
Was looking for seatpost first 😉
It’s important to be happy and think positive. Today I sat on the wheel of two strong riders and thought, I will keep the wheel, I will hang on, I have too. Mental strength that ended with my legs standing straight out like on Tom Boonen yesterday.
Except he was at the finishline and I had 1h40min left. But a bit before I managed to get a new topspeed for the year. Nothing to brag about as it only was 52,6km/h but it’s at least something to be happy about 🙂
Rode out to Ingarö this weekend to, but instead of wet rain and water everywhere it was almost dry and really fast. Pretty much wind too. Was okey to sit on wheel in the headwind but when we turned and it became tailwind it was too hard for me so rode the last part alone.
Fastest time to work today too with 14.46, like 3-4min faster than previous record. But also got the slowest time on the way home. The wind says a lot.
No picture today as I had enough with keeping the wheel in front of me so just some map and stats: Movescount
Funny to like cycling when every muscle wants you to stop and take the bus or like last weekend when it was so wet I was freezing after just 15min of the 4h45min ride. There is something magic about the misery cycling can get you too 😉
Spring is getting closer and closer and the speed gets higher and higher. Today I had the same problem as last sunday, my gears are to easy and I had problems keeping up. Not the fastest guys today so could hang on wheels longer time than earlier and when I got dropped I continued to ride until we came back to Enskede so never any easy riding. Great training but shorter trainingtime than usual 😉
From this morning outside Urban Deli:
Map and stats: Movescount 28,7km/h average on the Le Pelotonpart.
Wiggle Honda is selling some bikes now on Ebay. Like Colnago C59 in my size 52 with Shamal tubulars. Or a smaller C59 with Super Record Eps and Bora 35. Sick bikes.
There are a few moments in life when you see the tragic thing. Moments when you start to think: why do I have so many parts? why 4 saddles? why 4 pair of pedals?
The moments when you realize that you only got 1 bike, 1 single bike, not even 1 bike and a project but just 1 bike. How is it to not choose bike, to not choose shoes, to not choose helmet?
My one and only bike is a Superbike, my Cannondale SuperX:
The bike that is always there for me, the bike that I’ve been riding in the forest with, the bike I’ve been enjoying asphalt rides with friends around mountains, the bike that been through deep mud and the bike that has been carried over to high things.
Will I survive this or what to do?
A day free and good weather. Perfect to try a new place to ride at. Me and my mum was walking at a place called Langevatnet some weeks ago, a nice area with a lot of small gravel and forest roads. Perfect for CX was my thought.
Me and Steffen (on a mtb) rode and tried today. Found some nice roads:
me too:
But then we also found some bad road. A really muddy place first where I better grip than I thought I should have and managed a short steep rocky climb afterwards. Felt like it was better grip with my 34mm Challenge Grifo tires with 2,5 bar then my X-King 2,4″ on my Remedy, hmm.
Followed a road that became a singletrack, ended up here:
Not good for riding a CX or even a mtb 😉 went back and took another way and found nice singletrack (for mtb) on the way back.
Rode a bit on a new gravel road that was really nice down from Langevatnet and took the asphalt back to Tønsberg. Great place to ride to if you want to ride a bit longer and train for a marathon race example. Laying on a hill to with a climb steep enough to make 38-25 to hard gearing 😉
Back home and ready to wash my bike, was a bit muddy:
changed body and glued tires yesterday. found a golden chain and pedals that I mounted today. Adjusted gears and brakes and now the raceCX is finished. Pretty happy with the result:
Black is so gone so color it is 🙂
spec:
frameset: Cannondale SuperX
headset: FSA with a low PRO top, special carbon wireholder and 10mm Reset Racing spacer
topcap/expander: Extralite Ultrastar and Hypercap
seatpost: KCNC Ti Pro-Lite
saddle: Tune Komm-Vor
stem: Tune Geiles Teil 4.0
handlebar: Deda Newton Shallow
bartape: Fi’zi:k white
levers: Campagnolo Chorus 1×11
brakes: Avid Shorty Ultimate, soon with yellow Swiss Stop brakepads
crankset: Sram XX1 BB30 with a shorter spindle and GXP spider, 145mm Q-factor
chainring: Sram XX1 38t
pedals: Crank Brothers Eggbeater 4Ti
chain: KMC X11SL gold
cassette: Campagnolo Chorus 12-25
rear derailleur: Campagnolo Chorus
wire/housing: Shimano Dura-Ace with Sram endcaps
wheels: Tune Mig70/Mag180 hubs with 40mm Chinarims and some cheap spokes
QR: Tune DC 16/17
tires: Challenge Grifo 34
weight: ? guess. Will check tomorrow
A really awesome Superbike that will be great for me this season too 🙂 After I fixed one thing, didn’t have screws to hold the brakepads and didn’t thought it was necessary, but seems like it was, short training today:
So my racing season this year if everything goes as planned looks like:
11th october in Svelvik, Norway
12th october in Drammen, Norway
18th october by Grenland, Norway
19th october in Bærum, Norway
2nd november watching the Norwegian Championships in Tønsberg, Norway (where the first picture was taken)
15th november watching the Swedish Championships in Gothenburg
16th november in Gothenburg, Sweden
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