Sorry. That data's only available on a need-to-know basis. Actually, I made the wheel to make the Computrainer feel more realistic. Turns out it barely made a difference. I subsequently replaced the CT flywheel (which spins about 30 times as fast) with an 18lber.

Ok, add my Zipp wheels and Zipp carbon bottle cage holder to Jens' bike and we have a winner. (The SRM is super nice, but I personally like the look of of the black FSA crank)

The P3C is hot! I don't understand the rankings, Kuota Kalibur (plain black), The black Talon (more plain black). The Roark is ok, plain ti, but I don't care for the graphics. The P3C is unique from any other bike. Don't get me wrong, black is pretty cool, but the red pops. If you are going to vote for a straight black bike, NYSLIM should win hands down. The all carbon weave is sweet!

I guess "that's why there are menus in restaurants, I like steak, some people like spaghetti.."

It's a medium-deep rim. I used a little paper funnel and poured the shot into the spoke holes; taped the holes; shook it; then topped each hole off. The rim tape holds the shot in. Although, they're wedged in so tight, it's not really needed.

-- jens

Did you make the 18lber? Just a steel disc I'm assuming.

Jens, what is your background that you are so into the technical side of all this? The tons of SRM's, the wind-tunnel time, etc. You are a man after my own heart (but with a bigger wallet).

Just curious... PM me if you don't like to post such info...

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I had a machine shop make the flywheel out of steel. I just approach cycling the way I do everything else: determine who's best at it; model them; look for things they might have missed; then try to optimize every single thing, down to the tiniest detail. The world is just one huge constrained optimization problem......

-jens

you're serious about the 7lb flywheel?



why?

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aero bottle mount is home made from a 0.10" thick piece of carbon fiber plate. Made the plate in our lab but you can buy it online from several sources. Google "composite store" or something like that. I swear the site was called the compositestore.com but it doesn't seem to come up. I used a fine tooth hacksaw (fast) to rough it out and then a dremel tool and finally wet dry sandpaper to finish it up. Make sure not to breath the dust in, wear a mask, do it outside and wetsand the final steps. I'd sen a template but it'd be useless as it's dependent on the width of your aerobars. For the aero bottle cutout, do it with paper first and then when you get it right transfer it to the carbon sheet. The whole thing is secured down with 1/16" 4-40 button head screws going into tapped holes in the aerobar extension mounts. Works great, super light and took less than an hour to make (excluding making the carbon sheet)

good luck:)

is it just me or does the pic being referred to here look ugly and like it was made in the 70s?

It's not just you, I was confused too. It looks like a mish mash of parts from different eras to my eye, but then what do I know?

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Can't beat the Lotus --- sorry, this is the best I can do. There should be a separate vote for Tri bikes and Road bikes. In today's world, this could be considered old-school.

[Campy should offset the clinchers and tufos and fingerprints]

I like the bike, not sure about the red, but good attempt with the pedals, bar tape, cages and zipp stickers.



It also almost matches that speaker wire coming out from under that door. What's that all about? Tape that down before someone trips over it.

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Wow ! Thats sweet. Regular Zipps weren't carbon weave I thought. I wonder what regular Twitcher 'Zipp' thinks of this....

Still, waiting for a beater???

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I have a couple of ideas in the pipeline.....

Hopefully legal!

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WOW that is a good looking chariot...

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yeah, there were lots od ada wheels and chainstays that big in the seventies. you sound like your iq is in the seventies.



jerk

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all the parts on that bike are thouroughly modern with the exception of older chorus shifters, because the jerk likes aluminum blades, chainrings, because the jerk likes a 52/42 and he couldn't find the new record rings in that size, and the crappy 10 dollar seatpost which is there because the bike takes a 31.0 and the jerk couldn't find a 31.0 in time for the photo.....it is a far more "modern" bike than almost anything else; certainly more modern than that mad painful lotus.



jerk

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Hmm, why does the jerk talk about himself in the third person?

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because the jerk is the jerk.



jerk

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I guess that's an end to that.

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24 hrs or less till I get my steed up here

"Pegoretti frame, Record kit, ADA wheels, Dugast tires, Brooks saddle - how do you top that? The only thing that could be better is a silver stem and clean white bar tape."

I was with you on this being a clear winner, but the Time carbon stem and fok are nails on a chalkboard for this bad-boy. Needs a quill and steel fork and its a shoe-in. Eddie would be proud of it that way.

Tell all, Andrew.

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Julian

I'll PM you - but would rather post the pic here before sharing what it is - maybe I am making more of it than what it really is - but I don't think so.

There will be those that like it, those that don't and that remains to be seen - but all feedback on it to date - from those that know what it is - has been positive.

There was a delay in the build this week - waiting on a few special order components to come in.


Check your PM - the pic will go up tomorrow afternoon!