So here she is. The new Team Chad race bike. We took an old Zipp 2001 frame and brought it forward into the 21st century. As most know the Zipps had some pretty annoying issues primarily with the shifting and rear brakes. This is why I wanted to take all the good of the Zipp and remove all the bad to come out with a super bike. That is what we have here. An electronic shifting, hydraulic braking reliable and fast (hopefully) tri bike.

This should get us started for discussions. The saddle hasn't be leveled yet....just wanted to get some pics up for the masses.




From this side you can see the new internal cable routing and the removal of the old cable guides which used to be on the frame. Calfee Designs patched the old holes and worked all the new holes for the Di2 and the hydraulic lines.





Here is a nice front quadrant shot of the bike. Zipp bars with the RT8 braking system.





An above shot of the aero bar cluster. You can see the bar end shifters, which were built by Calfee, are fully concealed under the bar tape.





Closer shot of the bar ends.





Front shot of the bars.





That's right. The battery is nicely tucked away in the aero bar extensions. This is the little charging port for the battery.





This is a front shot of the Margura RT8 brake. The little bit of riding reveals to me that these are some very cool brakes.





Here is a shot from below of the rear brake nicely tucked away. Good-bye days of rusted brake lines and squishy rear brakes.





Front derailleur and osymetric crankset.





Rear derailleur. To keep from running this through the structural portion of the chainstay there was a tube installed to run underneath the chainstay for the cable run.





So that is it. This is the new Team Chad race bike. I am looking forward to many, many fast races on this bike. Hope it meets with ST approval.