Thanks ...I have added carbon crank arms since this pic was taken.

Damn, i was just about to say you're one smart dude with those ultegra cranks...in a comparison i saw they tested stiffest from all the Shimano, Campy, FSA & new Zipp cranks...heavy, but stiff. hot bike though man, nice attn to detail in the build

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
- Muhammad Ali

Dude, love that gold P3. Nice build.

Wow now that's Golden !

TTT i like all black. Great art !

You finally finished it !!! Great !

Such a shame about those welds though.................

That size is this frame.... it's look like size=L, am I right ?

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Ya, its a large. They call it a 58cm but I think they should have called it a 59cm or a 60cm because its a little large for me. I dont quite get the drop I was looking for. But having said that I still am very aero and I can stay in the aero bars all day long no problem. Although, I may need to get a little shorter stem.

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What's with your bottleholders? I also have a ttx flying ace and when I ordered it I was asked from trek if I want the two bottleholders painted matching to the frame colour. You obviously decided no to?

Frank

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.

I was wondering about that because I have seen pictures of other P1 bikes that have matching bottle cages, but they never asked me if I wanted matching cages. Did they give you plastic cages or carbon cages? Did they just paint them gray or are they polished looking like the rest of the bike?

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I received carbon cages in matching colour. I was asked if I wanted them when I ordered the bike. You obviously also didn't want the LAF donation tag on your bike? I was a little surprised that they painted my name in yellow on the tube, that looks a little aggressive, I would have preferred silver or gray.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.

I dont think it was that I obviously did not want the LAF donation tag as much as I was not familar with it. I dont mind the name in yellow, I like it. I'm totaly impressed with my bike.

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my lovely p3c in full training mode....

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Jens:

Interesting how you mixed Campy and Shimano shifters. I guess that's one way to clean up the Shimano cables. Nice bike.

BK

i would have gone campy right and shimano left, rather than what Jens did.

Did you use a half of a basebar-to-extension clamp and a set of risers instead of the normal pad clamp and two set of risers to raise your armpads? (I hope that was clear!)

Do you happen to have an closeups of that setup? Are you using one front and one rear hole on the pad holder instead of two side-by-side holes?

I've never seen it done that way. Interesting.

Steve

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Steve

"If you ain't first, you're last." Reese Bobby Talladega Nights

True but with Shimano Derailuers the way he did it is the way that works.

I'd be curious for Jens input as to why he did the mix & match.

JSM, love the paint scheme on your P3C, how do you like the Blackwell fork?

Thanks. Originally, I went with a pure "Shimergo," two-Campy shifter setup. But even with the Jtek adapter, I was getting a little extra chain friction from rear derailleur alignment issues. Once I get that worked out, I'll probably go back to it. I really love those Campy shifters.


-jens

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I'm not familiar with the jtek adaptor. Does that allow you to run Shimano derailuers with Campy shifters?

My bikes have always been Shimano, but I very much prefer the "cleaner" cabling look of Campy. However, that leads me to my next question, why not just use Campy derailuers too?

I had a bunch of left over parts from another pair of T2's that I put on my Carbon X base bar(on another bike) so I took the aluminum armrests and mounted them fore and aft on the basebar-to-extension clamp. Works well as I am able to tilt the armpad forward to line my arms up nicely with the shifters. (I hope that was clear ;-)
Here are some pics that show it better. I have since cut the steerer tube down and the pads are tilted more forward as I removed a couple of washers out from under the forward mounting post.

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The jtek shiftmate allows you to do that, as well as some other combos (including SRAM):

http://www.jtekengineering.com/shiftmate.htm

The other possible solution is this:

http://www.hubbub.com/articles_ergopower.html


though for me, I couldn't accept the slight increase in chain friction from the latter solution (yeah, we're probably only talking about a watt or two, but it's something).

I just have so much invested in 9sp Shimano cassettes, freehubs, derailleurs, etc. it's hard to envision doing a complete switch to Campy.


-jens

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interesting clip-ons. what kind are they? any closer-up photos?

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