All the new stuff is up at QR’s website, www.rooworld.com
It’s really cool. The Tequilo is a beautiful bike. Good looking website too. Very well done. Check it out.
Very cool bikes. But they went to 700 on the small size. I wanted to upgrade to the new Caliente but I have all 650 stuff!
Sell your 650 stuff! (unless you like it… and it fits you well).
Very interesting that even the least expensive model now has internal cable-routing. Is QR upping the ante in terms of features available for the “lower-end” bikes?
The improvements in frame quality and features on the Kilo and Tequilo are very substantial and worthwhile.
The seat post area and binder bolt have been heavily reworked and upgraded with technology somewhat trickled over from bikes as high-end as th Litespeed Blade.
In a nutshell- the bikes are significantly upgraded.
If you click on Bikes it’s Sergio in the pic!
i have to say, i just don’t like most of their paint jobs. plus all of the people on the homepage are really angry for some reason.
Well, I know taste in paint and graphics is entirely individual, but I will make a strong argument for their graphics and paint.
I think they have really updated their look and that was a good move. There are a lot of nice little details. One of them is the “True to the Tri” tagline on the right chainstay. That is cool. I like the bold colors too. and for everyone who isn’t into the really bold graphics there is the subdued, strealthy look of the Tequilo- which is awesome looking.
Racy looking bikes are cool. QR’s graphics designer actually comes from an industrial enginnering background, and I suggest that gave hima “functional” perspective on design. The look is masculine and racy. It looks like a sponsored athlete’s bike. Personally, I think that is cool.
Yeah, Thats the problem. The 650 stuff fits me really well & I have a small fortune invested in wheelsets.
MC Sac is cool but doesn’t have the same zing as Larry California. Plus you aren’t a smartass anymore. 
You let a series CLM name drops go unbashed. The sky is falling…
Didn’t Herbert say only the Lucero would be available as a frameset and not the Caliente and Seduza?
Well, from what I can tell, on the Tequilo they added an aero seatpost and added internal cable routing. Internal routing can’t shave but a few seconds from even an ironman distance. The change is just minimal. Further, I have heard of studies were a round seatpost was more areo than an aero seatpost. I have not seen these studies, but the theory was that the turbulant airflow coming from the front end rolled over the round seatpost better. Take from it what you will, but I’d at least take it with a grain of salt. It also looks like they changed the fork. The fork from the '05 was the one on the Lucero, so it can’t be that bad.
Depending on how much stock you put in internal cable routing and aero seatposts, the changes are notable. I have the 05 and its a great frame, any upgrades certainly wouldnt hurt.
The internal cable routing is new. It is a functional, easy to use design that enables easy cable replacement and maintenance. There are no plastic, external routing guides to fall out of the frame. That has been a big annoyance in other brands in the past. That is gone on the new QR frame designs. Perhaps the largest single improvement is the seatmast/seatlug/seatpost area of the frame. he new binder bolt side steps issues with other brands of aero seatposts including posts that slip and binder bolts that strip. Last model year was particularly problematic for some brands with those issues. The new assembly is loosely borrowed from the Litespeed Blade and is a proven, easy to use, durable design. This is an improvement. The new aero seatpost has greatly reduced setback, easily enabling a fitter to position a rider quite steep or a trifle relaxed within a range of acceptable effective seat angles. Most of the bikes are speced with a 27cm long saddle, but the retro fitting of a 30cm long saddle Fizik Arione and Arione Tri as well as the Profile Tri saddle gives the rider even more latitude on the imporved seatpost head design. The new rear dropouts feature a novel and well-conceived drop-out adjustment screw. This makes it easier to adjust the position of the rear wheel in the rear dropout to vary the proximity of the tire to the seat tube of the fame. If you change tire sizes, from clinchers to tubular race wheels, etc, this adjustment is easy since the small bolt head is actually outside the dropout, in front of the wheel inlet on the rear-facing dropout. This makes turning the bolt easier.
Realistically, I don’t think the internal cable routing is any faster at all. Not one iota. I doubt the seatpost makes the bike either faster or slower too. Javelin told me they feel a roudn seat post is more aero also.
Here’s the thing though: Customers *want *aero seatposts. They prefer them cosemetically. They also frequently tell me they like the look of the internal cable routing too.
Now, don’t for one second argue to me that those are not important factors. The bike has to be accurately fitted, mechanically dependable. But in addition to that, the bikes must be emotionally compelling to the consumer. If they aren’t, they will not sell in tengible numbers. There are some great bikes out there that languish on the sales floors under a layer of dust because *consumers don’t want them. *
For '06 I think QR has done a highly credible job of combining technically valid designs, geometry, features and benefits while also making some emotionally appealling bikes. That is important.
Remember, you may buy one or two bikes this year, ad that is significant. I will buy about 500 bikes this year… People have to like what we buy for both hard, pragmatic reasons and also for aesthetic reasons. I’ve learned the hard way: Both are very important.
The Caliente is HOT! 
I like it too. I particularly like the Kilo and Tequilo. Espeically the color story on the Tequilo.
a guy goes to a triathlon, and drives his bike on the roof-rack into the drive-thru’s signage. seatpost bends/breaks. guy with round post picks up new one no prob. guy with proprietary fancy new seatpost shaped like the stealth bomber is hosed.
fabulous new innovation.
two guys train like mofo’s in the pouring rain for 5 hours. guy with slotted-guide external cables zips his cables out of the housing, lubes them up, and buttons it all back up in less than 2 minutes, with no tools. guy with fancy hidden internal cables watches his friend, looks at his own new bike, and wonders why he himself is such an idiot.
Not gonna argue that the aesthetics are important factors. For how good a bike the p2k is, I just don’t find it aesthetically pleasing. Thus I ended up with a Tequilo.
Personally, I dont think the upgrades on the Tequilo are worth the added expense. I’m sure there are hundreds of others that disagree.
Sorry, but it’s Ute Muekel. See last name on top tube…