I finally decided and went for a professional fitting. It turns out that I need a custom frame by a large margin (I am 6’5 with long legs). The whole experience was very interesting and I was surprise by how small a frame I need compared to my road bike.
Anyway, I am now looking for a custom frame and I am thinking steel.
Any recommendation ?
Thanks,
Take a look at Zinn, Seven, jamesframes.com, Yamaguchi, and HH. I’m pretty certain that Zinn, jamesframes, Yamaguchi, and HH all have access to the TrueTemper aero tubing. Zinn is big on big boy bike builds, jamesframes has a bit of a cult following among sub 50 minute 40k TT riders in the midwest and on a side note has several Project '96 tubesets laying around his Boulder, CO shop. Seven can build great bikes, but can alos build terrible ones.
What is your price range?
I am 6/4 ish with long legs, Davis Tiemeyer built me a custom frame,i love it www.tiemeyercycles.com
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Lenard Zinn and Carl Strong
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I say go with Yamaguchi or Mandaric (Yaqui for tri). Both build awesome rides, both are masters of their art. I seriously doubt you can go wrong with either.
paul levine from serotta. Has been an occasional poster and has had lots written about him if you look around.
here is an article on him
If I go steel does that make sense to use aero tubing ? Wouldn’t the cost penalty be too big ?
Thanks.
do not forget a waterford! mr’s schwinn and mueller have forgotten more than many know about high end steel frames. they know tri, and are way up to speed on s3 tubing - just ask b lindquist, kicking a$$ and taking names on a steel ( NON-AERO…) waterford. wonder why the tri world hardly notices this…
Steel frames should be round. And lugged.
What is “S3” tubing?
take a look:
http://www.desperadocycles.com/S3/True_Temper_S3_Tubing.htm
http://www.henryjames.com/s3.html
there ya go. who is gonna argue with “henry james”? not me and not you. s3 is the shit. 