That is seriously awesome.

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He should at least paint the nut cups black... TJ is a great engineer but, white nut cups on such a sweet ride?

That strikes me as an insanely comfortable bike.

Love the nut cups...

I'm more impressed he has an intern...

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Are those shin guards? Did he use Sports Authority to outfit his bike?

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Hilarious...absolutely hilarious

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It looks like he has multiple interns.

This might be the most rediculous thing I have ever seen...which is why I like it...The Sports Authority comment was hilarious...

SA - "Can I help you"
TJ - "Looking for your baseball section...and by the way, do you carry cups?"
SA - "Yes, right this way"
TJ - "Thank you..."
TJ - "Do you have something bigger...and can I get two?"
SA - "Excuse me sir, I think you might be looking for our hockey gear...you find our arm and elbow pads there"

How would one go about applying for an internship with TJ?

The nose of his saddle appears to be angled down a bit. I wonder if the beam deflects enough to make the saddle level when TJ is on it.

beautiful bike. if zipp has some other ones laying around, ill ride em! albeit, not a 2:03 HIM split tho

The saddle doesn't need to be level, especially when you can lay on your aerobars.

Ruster Sports - pretty sure he has 2-3 lined up for the summer

it'd be nice to see him just 'melt' some SMC and form it to his arms and lining it with padding. should take too much work really.

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If Chuck Norris was a triathlete this would be his kind of bike.

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They are more like young apprentices.

no power meter?

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SRM.

When I was in transition and taking pictures I walked up to TJ and said "mind if I take a picture of your bike for ST? He said no go right ahead. I said " Thanks TJ can you please step away from the bike so I can get a good picture."

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He's a good guy. He came down a few years ago for a Zipp demo night at our local Wednesday night TT. Looks like he's coming back again to do it this year. I'll pay more attention to his position this year. He's had it for a while now, but looks like it's been working well for him.

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It sure does look good for him.

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Can't speak for the Zipp, but my Allsop beam version was just as you inferred, deflection of the beat brought it to level-ish. I do believe from what I have heard that the Zipp beams vs. the early Allsop beams are/were much less compliant.

This looks like he could REALLY benefit from making a mould of his forearms and elbows; making a positive, and then some custom fit elbow/forearm rests from either glass or carbon. This is something simple enough for even me to do...and would not take that much time and might improve comfort.

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Oh my...!!!

Now, this is a real multi-sport gig!!!

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The cables like that would bother the he'll out of me.

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The beams on the Zipps do not deflect much at all, even on a soft setting. See the pivot bolt on the front of the beam? About 8" behind that and on the top of the beam is a bolt that you can adjust up or down. Adjusting down will squish the elastomers under the beam and take away any movement the beam can have. If you leave it out more, the elastmoers will be slightly softer and the beam may deflect a tad, but not near as much as a Softride. The only deflection you may have is a from an elastomer that is about 2" tall and not very soft. The carbon beam itself does not move at all, except a slight sway from side to side under lots of wattage.

Btw - I've had 4 Zipp 2001's and a Softride SE7.

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I wish these beam bikes hadn't gone away. They were insanely comfortable and really, really fast for TT (I set several PRs and qualified for Nationals on a Softride Qualifier.) I sold mine recently since I'm not racing much and am moving to frames I built myself. Was sad to see it go. Blah, UCI and all you weight weenies!

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Didn't TJ just switch to Parlee bikes last year? I'm pretty sure he debuted the new Parlee TT at the Racine 70.3 last year. I guess he lost that sponsorship if he's on a 1996 Zipp 2001. Orrrr he did some crazy engineering calculations and found this to be the fastest bike for him. I remember reading an article last year (I thought it was an ST article, but alas, the search didn't turn anything up) that he had his bike equipped with all SRAM Red components EXCEPT for the front brake caliper, which was, I believe, SRAM Rival. His explanation for the Rival caliper was that, though it was slightly heavier than a Red caliper, its design was more aero, which was worth the extra weight. This guy looks for ANY free speed he can get.

Do you happen to know how much that weighs by chance?
Such an awesome bike, sorry for him he missed the record.
I bet those shin pads lower the CDA a bit.

One would probably email him at Rüster Sports...

You can always get a Titanflex....or a softride or Zipp off eBay......or do what I did and get a used Titanflex off eBay ;).

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Hmm. That cockpit photo showing the forearm rests has me thinking this set up is getting closer to being a faring.

He chose to use Ultegra 6500 calipers because it was the 'most aero' based on his testing.

I think this was either on the Parlee TT or the Spez Transition...

Hope he had his tentis shot with all that rust.

I wonder what rear brake he is running to allow for the SRM.

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I'd be happy to donate a new TitanFlex to TJ for his out-of-the-box experimentations.

Seriously, TJ, get back to me about this.

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Tetanus?

I agree with you though...that elbow pad looks like it barely protects his elbow from that little bolt, which I have to imagine would be quite uncomfortable...also, WTF is up with his cabling? Seriously, it's not that hard to route cables out of the way, if not internally. Some cable ties even would do him some good.

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Thanks TJ, I needed that laugh. Being a former college baseball player, the cups was absolutley hilarious!