fantastic build! I love the way you parted out the components. Enjoy that beaut!

Wow. She's puurty. Where'd you get it...Ohio cycle works? Px USA direct?

yes, yes, and yes!

Thanks guys, I got it from Titus Bikes out of Oregon. They are owned by PX now and are an absolute pleasure to deal with.

Very nice, love the color :P (or lack thereof)

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Beautiful! Nice job, and congratulations!

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Nice!Here is mine


Did you try the Omega on the rear brake? Would it fit?

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Thats a negative Ghostrider!! Just won't work with the built in hanger. Maybe if you remove it and fab some sort of custom hanger. Love your bike!! Go Fast!!

Nice Top Gun quote!
I didn't think it would without some heavy modification (ala Tom A.)

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Well sure. Any topic about Exocet has got to have a Top Gun quote in it. :)

Sweet!!!

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Are there room for 25mm tires for both front and rear?

Looks very good.

So is the frame and the seatpost actually kind of a raw (or clear coated) UD carbon? Or is the whole thing actually painted a dark gray?

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There is plenty of room for 25mm tires. The color is actually a Matt gray. Pretty cool in person. I was hoping for the raw carbon look of the prototype but the gray looks pretty cool wicked also.

EH, nice bike too...

Interested though in that large bottle you have on the down tube, what brand is it, and does it have Camelbak Podium lid on it?

Been looking for a large bottle, have found the Tefal Magnum 1L but it has a large lid and won't take the Specialized standard lid top.

Cheers.

rideronthestorm:
it is a Polar 24oz insulated bottle, with a camelbak lid on it. The lid that came with it was not as good as the podium lids.
I think it keeps water colder marginally longer than the podium insulated.

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Beautiful bike.

Genuine question here - how do we know how aero any of these bikes are? Any of the bikes that haven't appeared in windtunnel comparison data?

I ask because there are a couple of bikes I'm interested in but have become paranoid about anything that hasn't appeared in someone's white papers.

Shg101, To my knowledge, there are no published white papers on this frame.I hear they are out there but nothing has surface. I used to obsess over the tiniest of aero tidbits but then I realized...... I AM SLOW!! When I get up to 5 w/kg, then maybe I will start sweating the small things. Until then, I am just going to work on getting stronger. I built this bike to be comfortable and look aero....whether it is or not :) Who knows?? I have seen some very impressive TT times from guys across the pond riding this frame.

Compare the headtube of the planet x vs p2/p3. The answer should be fairly obvious.

Care to spare me some Googling and enlighten me?

Bump!

That should give you an idea. The tapered headtube of the Cervelo is considered by many to be a more aerodynamic profile than the oversized conical headtube on the Exocet, which uou can see on post #1

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One thing to note about aerodynamics, looks have little to do with it. Besides, look at the front end EricB's bike compared to the Cervelo/TRP setup.

Not every bike company has the ability to copy the clean front end-ed Speed Concept; Consider the front end of the bike alone (?) as one component of the frame, doesn't the rest of the bike play a role too....

when you say "looks have little to do with it," you could be right, in that if what you're looking at isn't relevant. However, if you are looking at frontal area vs. side area you're probably getting a decent idea of the bikes aerodynamics. Of course its not as sound as a wind tunnel, but there is obviously a reason that most of the "super bikes" have headtubes close to 25mm. And bikes that don't, like the Shiv, make use of massive tube depth to maintain the aspect ratio.

There is a member here who long before lots of the bike aero tests had been released was going shop to shop with a caliper measuring TT bikes' aspect ratios of all of their tubes. There is a strong correlation between the narrow/deep bikes and aero performance.