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easy-rider
Apr 21, 12 7:54
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Titanium Tri bikes (Lynskey, QR, etc.). Some rare and special...
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Enough carbon. Let's talk titanium! Just wanted to share some photos of somewhat special titanium bikes. I race triathlons and all my bike have tri geometry with exception of my 'bad weather' commute bike. Here they are:
#1 - Lynskey Triathlon Custom Level 4. IMHO, the sexiest, classy, most elegant and yet aero frame among ALL tri bikes. It's also among the strongest thanks to the main triangle made of 6/4 titanium. Ride quality is perfect thanks to skinny specially shaped seat stays. This is my latest setup for long distance triathlons - not as aggressive as used to be on my first buld posted on slowtwitch some time ago.
Weight of the pictured bike is 16.6 lbs.
#2 - Quintana Roo Ti-Phoon 2004. Probably the best all around training and racing bike build of 3/2 and 6/4 (main triagle) titanium. Aero tubing is essentially the same as in the later version of Ti-Phoon - the difference is in a regular seat post and external cable routing. This difference actually gives this model advantage without sucrificing much aero - more choices of seatposts, easy to maintain external cable routing and stronger frame due to external cable bosses. Bladed seat stays are similar Litespeed Blade - just straight (Blade's are curved).
#3 - Quintana Roo Ti-Phoon 2003 (?) - my 'fast' work commute bike. I guess, only titanium bikes can handle my daily commutes in NYC - bad weather, crappy roads, crashes, etc. The tri setup on this bike helps me to get to work faster and spend more training time in the aero position. Original decals are removed, carbon fork painted in matte black and few reflective stickers added to camouflage my bike in order to park it on the streets of Manhattan.
# 4 - My 'bad weather' work commute bike. Not sure about the builder, but few photos found elsewhere are pointing to a Russian company somewhere in Siberia. Probably the same factory is making fairings for Russian missiles :) . The build is pretty rare (similar to above Lynskey #2) - horizontal dropouts for a single speed bike and yet everything else needed to build a regular road/cyclocross bike. Welds are perfect and build is very high quality. Matte finish allowed me to put Huffy decals. Hey, who wants to steal a Huffy bike?!!! I use this bike for work commute in bad weather - rain, snow, ice, etc. I usually put studded tires during winter - they give me peace in mind...
(This post was edited by easy-rider on Jun 1, 12 12:19)
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