For those following Leadville here’s a pic of Travis Browns bike. I guess you could call it a hybrid ??
The first half of the race is flattish and fast. He may just push the pace, do the pulling and drop out at the half way point. His set up looks good for that.
For those following Leadville here’s a pic of Travis Browns bike. I guess you could call it a hybrid ??
http://www.superhumanmag.com/content/view/1563/47/
Probably just an homage to Johnny T!
Disc on a MTB, that’s awesome.
That’s cause leadville is nothing more than a road race on gravel for the most part.
I’d call it a mountain bike with drops. He still has all the suspension and the geometry of a mountain bike. I know a guy here who races with a very similar set up. He did the Downieville Classic on it. And Downieville is nothing like a road ride on gravel.
That’s cause leadville is nothing more than a road race on gravel for the most part.
Mostly looks set up for that, but there's a little more knobbiness going on up front than what dry gravel and hardpack would call for...
Just depends on what you like. I run a Maxxis Larsen TT on the rear and an ignitor on the front on the hardpack out here in cali which is a pretty similar setup to what he’s got going on there. Rolls fast enough when it’s solid, got a bit of corner lugs and tread in case you hit some soft stuff in a corner.
Disc on a MTB, that’s awesome.
Yeah…that Tioga tension disc was a cool product. It basically replaced the spokes on a regular MTB rim and turned it into a disc…true-able and everything.
The other cool thing he did was the full body skinsuit for DH-ing as well. Tomac rocks.
I keep an old school mtb setup like that to use on fast Xterra courses. They won’t allow them on the Maui course, but the mtb folk don’t seem to care. Travis is one guy who could give Lance a pretty good go at Ledville. He may be on the Lance Factor payroll though.
Or extreme cyclocross. I know a bike mechanic who used to ride a drop bar mtn bike back in the late 80s although that was pre suspension.
That’s cause leadville is nothing more than a road race on gravel for the most part.
…so 100 miles in 6:45 appears to be a little slow…you’ll be breaking 5 hours, I’m sure.
Anyway, Travis Brown is just copying the bike Dave Zabriskie used two years ago…http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=356913
That bike is beautiful, I just stared at it for 15 minutes.