General

Been out of town all week and through the weekend, back this week and have a few things to write about.

Nicole has a new bike, a Cannondale Capo. I will post pictures and hopefully she will write up a little review.
I have a new Pedal Force Hardtail Carbon MTB. A review and pictures are forthcoming.
Floyd Landis will find out today whether or not his appeal was successful. If it is he will be recrowned the 2006 Tour de France champion.
In the next few weeks we will see many announcements from bike manufacturers about new models for 2009. Now might be the time to start shopping for your 2008 closeouts.

Bike repairs. I know this but still sometimes events come up and you need something done fast so you try to find a shortcut here or there. The problem is that shortcut usually works out disastrously. Such is my plight with Nimble. Nimble is a big name in triathlon wheels and they make a carbon rim that last year all wheel builders were raving about. After doing my research and finding a wheel builder that had comparable ideas on wheel building I had a set of carbon tubular wheels built.

When I started this project I was expecting to go really cheap. With that in mind I purchased a Leader 735 TT Aluminum frame. To tell you the truth, when I built it up it seemed to me to be too harsh. At the time I also didn’t know much about fit and I was simply not in good enough shape to ride aero. So it turned out to be a failed experiment.

When it comes to time trial or triathlon frames there are so many choices, many of which will cost you a pretty penny. As I mentioned in my previous posting, I will be looking at this from a budget persective. I do not want to spend more than $2000 on a bike that will only be used a few times a year. $1000-1500 would be even better. So with that small a budget the choices are fairly limited. It also means that most of the real big name production bikes are not within the budget. I am not looking for a road bike that will be converted to a TT/Tri bike, we are looking for a real TT/Tri bike.

The Incidental Cyclist is now available on PDA and Smartphones. You will not get all the features you see if you where using a computer and web browser but you can see new posts and comment. You just use the same url from your mobile device and the software is smart enough to modify the layout for mobile devices.