I’ve gotten in about four hours of riding on her since Monday. I did a swim/bike brick the other day!!!
Right now, she is napping in the living room. I don’t care what my mom says, she will not spend the night in the garage, it is too cold!
hey spot! sweet bike! i love it…that is a seriously fine machine. good on ya! so happy for you dude, you’ve earned it.
can’t wait to hear the full review. perhaps a bunch of us will come up to CC and ride around so we can see her in action.
your new steed def had cincytri green with envy this morning. roof and I helped him come up with about 5 different plans to score a new ride on the downlow.
what’s life without a fast bike?
i’m just sayin…
Thanks Kitty!! If its nice next weekend, maybe we can get a ride together up here.
Spot
Reply to: For those Kuota owners out there, did any of you consider the Scott Plasma instead of the Kalibur? What made you choose the Kalibur over the Scott.
Erik
FWIW: I ride a Kalibur and my wife has a Plasma LTD. Both bikes are nice. I ride her Plasma…when she lets me. It’s a sweet bike. The thing I notice most is that the Plasma is lighter. Cutting the seat tube is kinda of scary. I passed on a great deal for a Plasma. I can’t say one is better then the other just different. One more thing Norman did not ride a Plasma…j/k.
George
The carbon stem looks great. The place I got my bike tried to switch it out when I came back to pick my bike up. I made them switch it back to the Kuota carbon one. IMHO: Carbon w/ silver cages would look sweet on your bike. They would tie in with your wheels and crank.
This has got to stop, Spot. First you join the STCM and then you get a Kalibur, at least I did it the other way around! This has been my Tri ride since summer 2004.
Honest, I had no idea that you had one, I swear!!
That is a sweet setup you have…is that front a wheel a Nimble?
Spot
Great minds, eh? I would say in my defence that the P3c wasn’t in existence when I got mine (nor had Normann won in Hawaii) but it would have been too low at the front for my back.
Yep, that’s a Nimble crosswind and a damn good wheel it is too, if only they would get some independent testing done on it I think there would be a lot more out there.
I don’t know if this officially qualifies as porn, but its pretty darn nice. Got a good deal from the guys down at Wheelie Fun, too. They had had the frame for quite a while, and built the whole thing up for me (full Ultegra 10-speed, Reynolds Alta Race Comp Wheels, Arione Tri saddle, Profile T2+ aero bars, Profile T2 Wing base bar, and Michelin Pro Race tires) for $3400, plus a fit session to get everything dialed in. She weighed in right at around 18 pounds I think. Now I’m going to take my P2K and turn that bike into a fixie…my Christmas holiday project. Of course, its seriously cold here today, and I feel like crap from a cold, but I gotta go ride her for the first time in a bit. RRoof…now you have to get one so we can have matching road and tri bikes!!
Very Nice!!! But, I’ve got to ask what’s up with the floating spacers right above the headset??
Well, the front end on this is quite a bit lower than I’ve been riding in the past, and I think Bob at Wheelie Fun was just giving some room to come back up a bit before he lopped off of all the top of the fork. Plus, this is going to be my machine for IM LP, and I think he was thinking of adjusting it up slightly for long course tri.
Spot
Spot - I wasn’t giving you a hard time about the number of spacers. I too would wait quite a while before I cut the steerer tube. But, it looks like there is a gap between the headset and the lowest spacer. Do my eyes deceive me??
Yep…the spacers are sitting on top of the headset…what you are seeing is the out-of-focus lettering “FSA” on the headset. It just happens to blend in perfectly with the couch.
Spot
Wow - nice trick! I bet if you had a Kuota road bike, you’d get the Kharma Chameleon!!! Ok, that was bad! 
Spot:
How do you like the Arione Tri saddle? Did you use this saddle on your old tri-bike or is this new equipment? I’ve been thinking about trying this saddle.
Its new. I haven’t had a chance to really form an opinion yet…only got in 19 miles yesterday as it was really cold, and its colder yet today.
Spot
Thanks, I’ll check back with you later on the saddle when you get some miles on your bike. I’ll be getting a new saddle this spring for my Bianchi Crono Carbon TT bike. BTW, great bike. If I wasn’t so hung up on Bianchi bikes I would have gotten the Kuota Kalibur. I friend of mine went with the Kaliber this year and absolutely loves the fit and how it rides.
I have had an Arione on my Kalibur for the last couple of years and love it. I put a DSS saddle cover on it but do not use it for TTs (chamois thickness accounts for the difference). Great saddle and have no experiences that suggest the heavier nose is needed.
I just now grasped the fact that the IM World Champion responded to my Kuota thread!! I think the cold has gotten to my brain, or something. Not quite the nice paint job as yours, but it’s still a sweet bike.
Spot
Was that you Norman?
Was that you Norman?
That was the MAN.