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Comments - Tour of Flanders re-cap, Pais Vasco delight, and more
April 15, 2009
Agreed...6 days and no update.
- Jeff, Brooklyn, NY
April 15, 2009
6 days and no update??
- Joe, Biluski
April 14, 2009
Cunego seat mast looks unaltered to me. On the Cungeo paint scheme the ISM is painted black and thus may not look integrated but could looks more like a conventional post. Although I don't think he rides a stock frame, as apparently the geometry is customized as noted below.
- lawrence, halifax
April 14, 2009
Love the Garm*n truth. I wish I was overhyped and over paid as Tom Danielson, that would rock.
- Brian, Philly
April 13, 2009
I demand a larger chain watcher selection and more info on the Oakley Jawbone post haste!
- John, DC
April 13, 2009
So...Garm*n is ill equipped? what about noting the profuse amount of injuries (tuft, dean, farrar, friedman...) they've sustained in the last two weeks...
and what small little stage in Italy did Farrar win three weeks ago? and who did he beat?
- Mance Jarmstrong, Little "you honestly live there?" Rock
April 12, 2009
Ran my Garmin without any kind of zip tie through 140km of RVV without a hitch. Saw others with zip-ties but wondered what all the fuss was.
- Angus, Farnham, UK
April 11, 2009
"... But a huge bonus is the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco, a.k.a. the Tour of the Basque Country, where the world's best climbers literally try to murder each other. Every day it's the same -- 150km with 6 or 7 categorized climbs, the last few 10-deep with rabid fans at Led Zeppelin-like decibels. It's madness"
-Contador and Evans going at it was sick!!
- Brent, Madison, WI
April 10, 2009
Sam, while I can't say for sure, I think it's the same company that makes these: http://images.velodramatic.com/style/style-1.jpg
- matthew, boulder
April 10, 2009
Cunego's bike- I've read somewhere, I think a PEZ interview where they were saying that Cunego's frames are custom as he has a long torso but short legs. So they build his bikes w/ shorter than normal seat tubes and a longer top tube.
- HG, Atlanta GA
April 10, 2009
A little Garm*n bashing is good for the soul. Keep it up, it makes me smile.
- Scott, Tennessee
April 09, 2009
Are we in for a Titanium Renaissance as postulated by the Seven Cycles honcho? Doubtful...and that is a real shame because, for a lot of people, Ti would make for a great frame. I mean, should 240lb. Beergutskee's really be planting their enormous cabooses on 1000g framesets that were designed with a latter-day Jose-Manuel Fuente in mind? "Modern" Ti can be done light enough and stiff enough yet be much more durable than CFRP. Natch, you will pay through the nose and, no, the pros will never be seen on "your bike" hammering up the slopes of the Galibier. For these reasons, I think Ti will never make a comeback but will remain relegated as a quaint retro-ish curiosity while the Asians continue whetting the insatiable roadie appetite for carbon.
- PawleeWalnutz, NYC
April 09, 2009
Note to Fabian. 1987 called. They want your shades back.
- concernedconsumer, lac du flambeau
April 09, 2009
can anyone link me to what kind of rain gloves these are? http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0cwV0hrcswa3X/610x.jpg
- sam, chicago area
April 09, 2009
the speedplays are just speedplays with the plastic part taken off so that they remain somewhat useable when packed with grime.
- m, t
April 09, 2009
re: Fabian's slammed stem: Cancellara's' arms are as long as Cavendish, in all his mighty mite glory: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnorri/3280145701/sizes/o/
- jim, oakland
April 09, 2009
"How much does Team Garm*n trust the stock Garm*n handlebar bracket?" I've had decent luck with my G305 staying stuck on the bracket. But as for it staying powered on while riding cobble-like terrain, that's a different story. After the 305 gets riddled with vibration it spontaneously turns itself off. Annoying to say the least. But then, it looks like a lot of Garm*n stuff turns off when rattled, so what should I expect.
- matthew, boulder
April 09, 2009
I think Devolder won De Ronde in 6 hours (360 mins). The first person to finish outside the time limit finished 18 mins. in arrears. That make the time cut a mere 5%. Talk about ruthless. I would have lost that much time on the Koppenberg alone!
- Tim, Tucson, AZ
April 09, 2009
Thomson Masterpiece Seatpost - $140:
27.2mm x 240mm - 158g
31.6 x 350mm - 180g
Check that against you're lightest, blingiest, carbon everywhere seatpost.
- joe, portland
April 09, 2009
Headset spacers say very little about a rider's position. On my XL Ridley Excalibur, my stem was slammed. On my XL Giant TCR Advanced, my stem sits on top of a 3.5 cm stack. The saddle-to-bar drop is the same on both bikes. Cancellara is 6'1", and his slammed stem is on a 58 cm bike. Devolder is 6'0". I'd guess he had to choose between two fashions--a chopped steerer tube or a ridiculously long stem--and decided to go with the long stem. I'll bet he's riding a 56 cm frame with a 140 mm stem, and the headset stack puts his bars exactly where they would be on a 58 cm frame with no stack.
- Eric, Salt Lake
April 09, 2009
I am going to zip tie my Garmin too. Talk about PRO!! LOVE IT.
- Tom, Greenwich, CT
April 09, 2009
maybe the zip ties on the Garmin Edges were there temporarily to keep spectators/passersby from swiping them before the start of the race?
- Dave, Vermont
April 09, 2009
maybe the zip ties on the Garmin Edges were there temporarily to keep spectators/passersby from swiping them before the start of the race?
- Dave, Vermont
April 09, 2009
Great post, but then you blew it at the end. No one attacked you, you deleted a post that contained a domain with your company named and showed how sitting on a domain can be off putting to a business. By doing what you did, i.e., deleting the post, you proved the point. I think you need to look up - eating crow. Now, keep this post, but let us move on. I enjoy all too much of what you link to.
- Tom, DC
April 09, 2009
Re: David Millar's chain break: Garmin doesn't run SRAM.
- Rich, Seattle
April 08, 2009
As much as I love and use SRAM stuff, seeing another chain break after last year's David Millar breakaway-chain-break-then-bike-throw doesn't bode well for the PC-1070/1090 series. An honest question: do you write "Garm*n" to somehow avoid Google picking up these posts in the hopes that their team never reads them? I thought you buried the hatchet with them last summer on this very site and got over the JV bashing.
- Matt, Portland
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