Gaviria is the first one out on the new ViAS without rimbrakes:
And another better picture of the bike:
Someone wants to buy my Tarmac disc? A Venge ViAS disc with Campagnolo Super Record EPS have to be the ultimate roadbike if you want to go fast 🙂
Finally it happens. Campagnolo showes their Tech Lab prototype brakes for Lotto-Soudal, Astana and Sarto to use in the spring classics 🙂 Both post mount and flat mount:
And both mechanical and EPS:
Looking better than I thought and if you want to know more you can read about them and see more pictures here: Bikerumor
Some days are good, some days are just grey. Let’s hope friday will be better. But that’s not said grey is bad, this for example:
There is many parts you can do better on a bike. Improve aerodynamics like a Venge Vias. Improve the weight like my SuperSIX Evo I had:
You can improve the fit of your bike with a BGfit for example:
But a thing you can’t improve on a bike is the geometry. The last thing you can change and then you change bike.
Like the Trek Madone 6.2 I had last year:
It was superstiff and it felt really fast, really fast. The biggest downside with that bike was that I didn’t use it enough 😉 but also the toptube, it shouldn’t make any difference but I felt it was too low.
And yesterday after riding my Specialized Crux cyclocross on road and a bit fast it didn’t feel as good as a roadbike. Because of geometry.
My Crux feels faster than my old Cannondale SuperX but they are pretty similar in geometry except bb height, chainstay length and the fork. Small small changes that makes a difference.
Cannondale have their Synapse, Specialized got their Roubaix as the best example. They are a bit longer, not as racy as a SuperSIX Evo or a Tarmac. People may talk about weight but it doesn’t differ so much if anything. The big thing is geometry and the small changes that makes the complete feel of the bike differ.
I believe that brands that have been on the market for a while with great success makes bikes that handles better than brands that just put their sticker on a cheap frame from China. There isn’t from nothing people talk about the riding feel of riding a nice Colnago for example.
Have you ever thought about geometrical differences between frames before changing roadbike?
If you wonder why to shave weight of your bike, there is a great article about it here: Peloton
A light and stiff bike with great fit will always be fast, like my Cannondale SuperSIX Evo I had at just 5,65kg:
Which light bike is the best you’ve ridden?
It starts to get unusual to find a special bike. Everyone has everything and very few tune their bike old school style. There seems to be an solution to buy for everything. But putting Zipp wheels on a mtb, that’s not so common:
Really cool. High profile on mtb is cool, like my friends Gipiemme he had on his Merida some years ago. I’ve been thinking of the opposite to glue roadtires on a mtbrim but the tires didn’t fit to my AX-Lightness rims I had then.
Another cool bike is this Colnago EPS stripped from paint and painted in Maserati blue and made for Campagnolo Eps. Like made for each other with Colnago EPS and Campagnolo EPS 🙂 7030g:
Friday evening and no plans=bike riding. Rode with a friend in the sun this evening, great thing to ride a roadbike in good weather in the evening, almost as good as riding early in the morning. Only thing missing was a classic bike like the new one I’ve found. De Rosa Corum:
Steel, custom geo, Campagnolo. But is it classy enough to be compared with a Colnago C50?
Anyway, now Movescount is back on track and I can share a map and some stats to prove I’ve been riding today: Movescount
Cycling cap
Read a nice discussion a couple of minutes ago on cycling caps on the podium. Nowadays most riders use a baseball cap on the podium, wannabe baseball players? What do you think? OPQS with Tony Martin knows how it should be with a proper worn cycling cap:
But I’m back riding a bike again. Was hard today and my legs wasn’t so used to pedal as I remembered it last time. Not so warm either.
Started with a plan of 1h easy spin in good weather. The easy spin part I don’t know about but felt slow at least, rode along the coast to Åsgårdstrand and up the climb I really dislike and to Barkåker and Sem before I got home after 74min. Manage to take some picture too. Missing France as the blogpost name means so used french shoes, pedals and bibs today 😉
And a jersey with french text on 😉
and thought of geometry and fit today. If someone buys my awesome Trek Madone 6.2 I will get THE classic bike 🙂
Map and stats from today (don’t look at the heart rate): Movescount
Left home 10.15 today with the goal to ride far and get very tired just wheelsucking. 5h with 3 elite riders sounds hard.
Got some Nature Power Nutrition from Multipower at Veloshop (so easy to eat no matter temperature). And then headed towards the meeting place. Bugge was very late so started with a long talk with my Joker boss. Left half an hour later than planned and aimed for Hvasser, a nice harbour out on an island. Rode some new roads for me that I will remember instead of just riding straight like I did to the worlds end last tuesday. Really warm with over 30° C.
Stopped in Hvasser after I had ridden 1h39min and got something to drink from the local Joker store and enjoyed the sun. Then the discussion started about boats that never ended, we should have a boat.
Rode back to the mainland and stopped at Bryggan in Tønsberg to come up with where to ride. Rode to Ringshaug (bathing place). Met Bugge’s brother and the Norwegian U23 National Champion for a chat before we decided to take a bath. Warm and super idea, dried fast in the sun:
After a while there we rode home again. Martin left at my place for Stokke. Niklas a bit earlier to Nøtterøy together with Bugge who rode a bit extra before going to Horten. Slacker ride with more thoughts on why we didn’t have a boat instead of cycling. 😉
The ride of today that made me tired and ready for a 9 day rest (working with Team Joker in France): Movescount
Back in my Mavic Zxellium Ultimate shoes again today, perfect 🙂
Rode with my boss after work today, a nice Trek Madone 6.2 couple on the roads. I started with an intervall to try a climb before we met, think I will try to train serious later in august. Then we rode some nice roads, didn’t have any food or any plan so was pretty soft. Felt good riding with an easy pace (for me) that I think is very hard to do alone and feels like you sometimes need to slow down and just ride too.
Happy riding too 😉
So back home after 3h and 17min as you can see here: Movescount
Now recharge for the months last training with the fast people tomorrow.
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