Cyclingnews has a quick article on it.
Sweet, sleek, sexy. About what you’d expect.
UberDave, you got any drag #'s for us?
The part I loved best is that he’s running a “Cobb’d” front brake: http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/pro-bike-david-millars-garmin-transitions-felt-da/120344
Tells me that Millar (or his mechanic) really sweats the details!
-Scott
The part I loved best is that he’s running a “Cobb’d” front brake: http://www.cyclingnews.com/...tions-felt-da/120344
Tells me that Millar (or his mechanic) really sweats the details!
…except for the detail that Damon Rinard (when he was at Trek) tested that type of modded brake in the wind tunnel and found that at 0-10 deg yaw it wasn’t any faster, and that at 15 deg it was actually significantly slower…and that info is publicly available.
To be fair, Millar’s brake is only “half-Cobb’d”…John recommends cutting off a bit more material on the arm and the entire cam thing-a-ma-jiggy hanging out there in the wind. Couldn’t see any pics on the BikeTechReview thread to see what particular style Damon tested.
-Scott
That carbon fiber cover for the crank is pretty sweet too…
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/pro-bike-david-millars-garmin-transitions-felt-da/120339
That carbon fiber cover for the crank is pretty sweet too…
http://www.cyclingnews.com/...tions-felt-da/120339
how on earth is that legal?
He didn’t run the bike set-up profiled by CyclingNews.com…see the 3rd picture down for what he actually rode: http://www.steephill.tv/2010/giro-d-italia/photos/stage-01/
-Scott
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Hmmm, maybe that CF cover was just for the photo shoot? (They’re sponsored by Shimano, aren’t they?) But if so, why not just install Dura-Ace cranks for the photos?
I really like it; looks like a not-huge departure from the DA, but then that was a pretty fast bike anyway. Like the spot for a bottle behind the seat. Like the brake setups. Like the clean-but-simple cable routing; while the Trek and Scott super-bikes with the inside-the-stem, zero-exposed-cable thing are cool looking, this seems like all the functionality without the setup hassles that that must entail. Basically a design with the stem flat with the top tube and height adjusted via pad risers like others have been doing, but otherwise relatively conventional. (In a good way!) Nice.
no idea how that’s not a fairing
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Here is the UCI’s response to questions of allowing what appears to be a fairing on David Millar’s TT bike:
“Our philosophy is, basically this. And this is something that we live by. And we always have. And we always will. Don’t, ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who or who you are with, or or where you are going, or, or where you’ve been. Ever. For any reason. Whatsoever.”
amazing picture quality makes that bike look really sweet…those Shimano carbon pedals seem to have a really big platform, must feel very stable.
Andrew
Yeah, it especially seems like a fairing when cyclingnews reports that “The custom carbon fiber cap covering David Millar’s (Garmin-Transitions) O.symetric chainrings is purely for aerodynamics and cosmetics as it is only attached by the chainring bolts and does little to stiffen the ring itself.”
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/pro-bike-david-millars-garmin-transitions-felt-da/120336
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I can honestly say that this is now my new favourite next-gen TT bike. I prefer it to the Shiv and the Speed Concept. That may change when the SC details emerge but I’m loving this.
Interested to see if there is an integrated front brake fork on the way, as intimated by SD in a previous post.
Also interested to see the final geometry.
Ummmmm?
haha … i was just going to post that pic…
Peter North is at the Giro?
what BB is that?
We need to rock a caption contest for that one!
It would be really annoying for the OP who wanted to discuss the new Felt if we derailed the thread in order to start a caption contest.
:^P