Road Bike Reviews, Bicycle Reviews, Best Road Bike: August 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Velo’s Innovative Saddle Designs for Senso and Plush

Saddle concern Velo focuses on a unified ikon with newborn makeover

In any market, seeable efforts directly catch the tending of consumers and crapper transmit a modify or emphasize awareness. For Velo, a leading concern of saddles, grips and bar tapes, this is a construct the company uses to capitalize on by creating newborn organic designs that emphasize apiece of its brand’s unequalled characteristics. For the assemblage 2012, Velo’s action line, Senso, has been swollen to allow newborn and extra-light rivalry saddles, patch Plush has additional newborn saddles with sporty features. The upgraded product lines, specifically created for the aftermarket, are today distinguishable finished new, smooth designs that exposit the overall pore of apiece brand.

For Senso the seeable organisation has been essentially modified. With its expressive black-andwhite composition, the command conveys an extremely active and impulsive look that boost demonstrates Velo’s direction for its action line. This active organisation has been additional to the 2012 product range, which consists of rivalry saddles equipped with copy injected bases and copy fiber rails. While the sort has previously manufactured saddles in various colours and designs, the majority of the saddles module today exposit the newborn black-andwhite look. Following the performance-based crusade launched at Eurobike 2010, the newborn organisation has today been implemented into the overall strategy. It boost compliments the brand’s pore as a technologically-rich action brand. By streamlining the brand’s seeable appearance, sort acceptance among aftermarket customers module increase.

Plush, Velo’s comfort sort attractive to a large arrange of consumers has been refreshed without losing the saddle’s threesome mode organisation elements: A black and wear cover, chromatic Plush label, and chromatic and white Velo logo. The newborn organisation today features chromatic and black arching lines on the way area adding a timeless look and contributing to a broad acceptance value. To better discern the individual Plush models, the help drawing hit been merged into the organisation and are displayed above the Plush label. The design’s transformation module also extend the brand’s attractiveness to allow a junior generation.

By renewing the aesthetics of the Senso and Plush saddles, Velo creates a joint organisation for apiece of its brands that module be communicated in the forthcoming patch uniting the communication of the existing Plush and Senso sort campaigns with the newborn designs.

Source: Kerstin Thiel www.velosaddles.com

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Cannondale Testing New Slice TT Bike at USA Pro Cycling Challenge

Those of you with a keen receptor probably saw Ivan Basso riding the a newborn Slice image at yesterday’s Individual Time Trial at the inaugral army Pro Cycling Challenge. Cannondale wouldn’t feature much, but did release this statement:

“It’s no info we’re ever disagreeable to attain meliorate products. This is a image of our newborn TT cycle and it’s ease very such in the investigating phase. If there was a artefact to fully prove it out it in private, conceive us, we would…but despite all of our sophisticated investigating protocols, there is meet no substitute for having the prizewinning athletes in the concern place the creation finished its paces in actual racing situations. Unfortunately, that effectuation that sometimes our investigating takes place in the open eye. It’s not ideal from a pure marketing standpoint, but it is integral to the process of antiquity the prizewinning bikes possible. We’re not prepared to interpret boost on the details correct now but the initial results are hunting rattling good! Stay tuned.”

-Bob Burbank, General Manager Cannondale

CyclingNews.com did intend whatever up close time with the cycle before the vie started. Read what they had to feature about the image here.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Bike DealerCamp 2011 – Cervelo S5 Aero Road Bike

Cervelo declared the new Aero S5 presently before the start of the Tour de author this time July. It’s a termination of 10 eld of organisation and testing of aero agency bikes. Cervelo says it’s a faster, stiffer, and lighter inclose than the S3. When you’re riding a cycle the single large factor slowing you downbound is air, up to 80% in whatever cases. When Cervelo went to organisation the S5, they fashioned it to be the most aerodynamic cycle you can ride while being in the most aerodynamic sustainable function as possible.

The S5 was shapely on 5 important features as explained in our past recording shoot with Evangelist Kameen. Moving from the face of the cycle back, the prototypal of those features is the dropped downtube. Rather than organisation a face rotate cutout where the downtube follows the lateral wheel, they institute after twine delve testing, what was faster was to modify the downtube to cover the Atlantic behindhand the chase bounds of the subfigure crown. So kinda than splitting the expose erst over the subfigure honor and letting it reattach to the Atlantic on the downtube and removed again on the chase bounds of the downtube, the expose is separate meet erst kinda than twice.

You’ll also attending a unequalled liquid bottleful feature on the Cervelo S5. The body of threesome liquid bottleful bolts, instead of the typical two. Cervelo has finished this to allow for more bottleful orientating choices. Typically when you put a liquid bottleful on an aero frame, you lose whatever of the aerodynamic properties. With the S5, you hit several positions to opt from depending on which sort of bottleful holder you end to separate on the frame.

Also fashioned into the inclose is a shielded lateral brake. Cervelo placed the brushwood increase direct behindhand the centre stay shoulder, essentially hiding the brushwood from the twine as it flows over the frame.

The Cervelo S5 also features an extended lateral rotate cutout, a feature Cervelo pioneered originally on their triathlon bikes the P3 aluminum, P3, and carried over to the P4. They’ve condemned that construct and adoptive it to agency bikes. First you’ll attending different their triathlon bikes, the S5 has plumb dropouts so rotate changes are meet as easy as they are on any other agency bike. You’ll also attending the cutout gets large as you study the cutout downbound towards the lowermost bracket. This makes rotate changes easier, but also prevents agency debris such as rocks from effort sucked into the frame.

BBright also makes it onto the S5. Originally introduced on their R-series bikes, the goal of BBright is to attain the stiffest and lightest bikes they mayhap can. To do that, they accumulated the width of the lowermost bracket Atlantic as substantially as process the diam of the arbor Atlantic (30mm) as such as they could without meddling with chainline. You’ll attending on the S5 that the non-drive lateral chainstay is such beffier and oversized than the driveside chainstay. Since the non-drive lateral of the chainstay carries more of the load, the beefier size gives it quaternary nowadays the stiffness of the driveside.

Finally, the S5 is also Di2 ready. You’ll attending a shelling increase acquirable on the non-driveside chainstay as substantially as options on the crowning plaything for the removed wires necessary for Di2.

Cervelo offers the S5 in digit inclose levels. The standard S5 inclose weighs in at 1,070 grams. But for coefficient weenies, the consort says they hit a VWD inclose that incorporates a lot of what they’ve scholarly with the R5 Project Calif. that module become in at meet 990 grames. Both frames use the aforementioned molds and are said to be nearly identical when it comes to lateral and torsional stiffness.

The S5 is acquirable finished dealers now. Standard S5 inclose with Shimano Ultegra is priced $4,800 VWD S5 inclose with Shimano Dura Ace Di2 module outlay $9,000 VWD S5 inclose with SRAM Red module outlay $7,500

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Monday, August 22, 2011

NAHBS Increases Allocation of New Builder Tables

Aaron Dykstra with his award-winning Six-Eleven road bike. Photo courtesy: www.sportvista.com

SPEEDWAY, Indiana-The 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show, slated for Sacramento, California, March 2-4, increases its inclusion of newborn builders by upping the sort of newborn stuff tables to 20, up from 14 at the 2011 exhibit in Austin, Texas.

Show originator and president, Don Walker, explained, “One of the reasons NAHBS was supported was to create a venue for newborn builders to foregather with and learn from the masters. Every playing needs a steady input of firm ideas and newborn talent, and if the immersion of media and discerning public we intend at NAHBS helps to physique careers, the exhibit is ensuing in one of its objectives. Last assemblage we filled every our newborn stuff spots, so this assemblage I am crescendo the number.”

All NAHBS exhibitors, either newborn or veteran, are required to have creation liability insurance. The important distinctions of the newborn builders are those that have been in playing for less than two years or that have completed less than 50 frames.

The fact that a newborn stuff lacks undergo does not stingy he or she lacks talent. For example, ballplayer Dykstra, of Six-Eleven Bicycles won the Rookie of the Year honor in 2010 for the best newborn builder. Part of that accolade is the eligibility for a flooded booth at the following year’s show, and when he came back in 2011 as a flooded exhibitor, Six-Eleven Bicycles won the Best Track Bike award.


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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Chrome Releases WRENCHED NYC: A Free Alternative Guide to the Real New York

Chrome Launches Issue Two of Bi-Annual Book, WRENCHED NYC â€" Serves As An Alternative New royalty City Guide To Eats, Shops and Life

San Francisco, Calif. â€" Chrome, the world’s directive manufacturer of cycle traveller bags, covering and urban cycling apparel, is thrilled to foretell Issue 2 of their twice-annual liberated incurvature guide, WRENCHED. Compiling the city’s best-of-the-best and unseeable gems as advisable by various fictive types that inhabit the dumb New royalty City grid, WRENCHED NYC lends a fresh, but cured verify on the municipality for both locals and tourists, alike.

Each supply focuses on digit field municipality and provides readers with insight on places to eat, drink, shop, wander, party, and relax as suggested by a select assemble of each city’s fictive and cultural contributors. WRENCHED NYC taps into the brains of: Amy Gunther, Austin Horse, Dave Ortiz, Shadi, Gina Marie Scardino, Gino Ianncci, Joe Avedisian, Evangelist Igei, Jou-Yie Chou, Kyle Demmers, Michael Chernow, RB Umali, Ricky Powell, Rodney Smith, Squid, Steve Rodriguez, TAK, Ilium Denning, President Clemens, Abe Burmeister and Uli Rimkus.

“We’re so grateful for every of the dumbfounding grouping who got participating in this project,” says Chrome Director of Marketing, Matt Sharkey. “WRENCHED is a agglomerated try to verify the news of a municipality by the fictive individuals who attain up its landscape. From the streets, for the streets. I couldn’t be more appreciative of the grouping who helped to foxiness this issue; this lowbrow treasure transpose of the fivesome boroughs.”

WRENCHED NYC Launch Party: Everyone is solicited to become fete the start of WRENCHED NYC with Chrome and the WRENCHED mob on August 18th, 8pm EST at Chrome NYC (located at 238 Mulberry Street in SoHo). Featuring a DJ set by Thatkidprolific, live penalization from Jeru the Damaja and one-night-only art instillations from WRENCHED-featured photographers, Ricky Powell, Shadi and Takuya “TAK” Sakamoto. Complimentary beer and vodka drinks provided by Asahi and Berentzen. After band at Max Fish for a period of exclusive ingest specials and ensuant shenanigans.

In conjunction with the launch, Chrome has partnered with whatever WRENCHED-featured blistering symptom in celebrating the issue’s kick off. Throughout the salutation on the 18th, municipality seekers crapper stroke finished the mass locations to garner up a double of the entrepot (always free) and a liberated WRENCHED T-shirt with acquire patch supplies last: NYC Velo, SHUT, Dave’s Wearhouse and Invisible Tattoo.

Be sure to analyse discover Eptsein’s Bar for Heineken specials, and don’t woman the WRENCHED Meatball at the Meatball Shop acquirable exclusively that Thursday.

A limited print save of WRENCHED NYC crapper also be hunted downbound at various New royalty boutiques and dive bars.


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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Gran Fondo Colnago Philadelphia this Sunday

All ordered for the second edition of the 2011 GRAN FONDO USA Series, backward to metropolis this week-end! Last year, more than 1700 cyclists of every abilities took part in this elating Italian-themed event. Distinctive touches of the Gran Fondo Colnago metropolis include the Ferrari and Maserati wealth cars on pass at the Expo (Saturday and Sunday) and directive the way the period of the circumstance (Start on Sunday, August 14). A superior eggbeater prefabricated by metropolis Westland module also recognize the riders as they begin their instruction of choice: a 108 mile, 73 knot or a 33 knot route, every momentous from a historical saucer of analyse and heading finished lush woodlands, magical villages, and river-views in the region, famous for its essential persona in the dweller Colonies’ fisticuffs for independence.

Participating teams include: Alitalia and Augusta. Also worthy the participation of kids and chaperons of Philadelphia’s own Cadence Cycling Foundation, a non-profit created by diplomatist Snider (past president of the metropolis Flyers Hockey Team) finished his bike class in Manayunk (Cadence). The group is directed by Ryan Oelkers (an ex-pro) and most of them are technically auspicious teen riders. The Gran Fondo Colnago metropolis supports also the Kisses for Kyle Foundation, a non-profit methodicalness supporting topical families in the Algonquin Valley whose children (from relationship finished age 21) are battling childhood cancer.

City Representatives module be in attendance, as substantially as the Consul General of Italia in Philadelphia, Hon. Luigi Scotto and European Parliament allegoric (and metropolis resident), Hon. Amato Berardi.

More aggregation on Gran Fondo: www.granfondousa.com

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Featured User Review: Litespeed M1 SRAM Apex Road Bike

Featured User Review: Litespeed M1 SRAM Apex Road Bike by jhusome

Price: $1449 at Competitive Cyclist Overall Rating: 4 of 5 Value Rating: 5 of 5

Favorite Ride: rural mountain roads…

Summary: I conventional my newborn M1 most digit weeks ago. It came from CC for 1449 delivered. Can’t vex the price. CC had the component crowded unbelievably well. Thirty transactions after effort it delivered, it was primed to mate (takes 15 transactions intend mend ties off). The exclusive supply was the baritone bounds propellor on the front derailleur was soured by 1/4 turn. I detected this on the first climb, but it was an easy fix. I utilised the CC fit guide, and they suggested a small frame, instead of a medium. I’ve sport a 53cm in tralatitious frames, and the intellection of a 50cm seemed crazy to me, but I went with their suggestion. They were right. The inclose fits me fine… I am 5’7″ and I am plenty extended out. The effective crowning plaything is 52.5, so that is nearly the aforementioned as my 53.

So farther I’ve been quite impressed by the bike. I’ve been sport an Italian Steel Olmo, fitted with a complete Campy C Record group. The mate of the M1 definitely stiffer, and responds significantly meliorate on hills, and the flats. I won’t lie though, there is something absent in cost of spirit. I can’t put my digit on meet why, but copy meet has a different feel. In a technical sense, this bikes rides meliorate in every way, and is definitely device and faster… I’ve been sport since 1985. My time bikes hit included mostly poise bikes, but I did own a Vitus, which I liked until a horse blasted it (long story) and hit ridden some poise frames.

Before purchase this online, I effort drove several Specialized, Giant, and Trek bikes (2K to 2.5K). To be honest, on a short effort drive, I could meet verify they were different bikes. Compared to steel, they every change most the same. I took a risk in purchase a cycle w/o sport it, but now that I’ve got most 300 miles on it, I wager it was a enthusiastic choice. I think it is definitely as beatific as $2,000 Giants, Treks, and Specialized bikes, supported on the short rides I did, and I saved over $500 effort it from CC. It does wager aforementioned every the another copy bikes I effort drove… maybe I’m meet not utilised to the copy in a artefact to verify them apart, and short effort drives of 15 transactions can’t do justice to a bike. I can’t verify such disagreement between decorous intoxicant and pricey intoxicant either (cheap yes)… so that strength verify you something most my diacritical taste.

The wheels are definitely baritone budget, and I organisation on replacing them with Elites, as substantially as the handlebars, stem, and seat post. I am utilised to Campy C record wheels and null module probably wager aforementioned these wheels again…. Interestingly, I aforementioned the command quite a lot, and module probable keep it modify though it is a taste heavy. Comfort is important.

SRAM Rival entireness great. Took a awhile to intend the wager of the threefold touch shifters, and the auto crank. I am ease a taste rusty deciding meet when to agitate on the auto unstable from the super to the small ring, but it is effort more illogical daily. I was sport a 52/39 and it seemed easier to stay in the middle range of gears. The movement is excellent… crisp and fast. No complaints here, and I find the brake to be awesome. I crapper wager the organisation of brake is artefact meliorate than modify old crowning of the distinction Campy.

This cycle definitely shares the aforementioned inclose countenance and geometry as digit tone obligate frame, and digit Scattante Elite bike. I saw digit bill who said they ingest the aforementioned molds, but mayhap different composition? How could you ever undergo this? It is made in Taiwan, aforementioned most higher end copy bikes. I personally believe that this inclose is as high calibre as some of the similarly priced 2K bikes… w/o the player costs of the onerous advertising.

it is too early to provide a comprehensive review, but I module update the post as I intend more miles on the bike. I strength do a century this weekend with 10K of climbing…that should be a beatific analyse tool. So farther I am very satisfied with CC and the bike.

Strengths: Price is dumbfounding for a full copy cycle with SRAM Rival. Rides well. Stiff, but not too stiff. Absorbs agency racket well. Looks great. Fairly light, especially for the price.

Weaknesses: Wheels are cheap…but impact fine. Front wheel seems aforementioned the cones are meet small shade loose.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

First Look – 2012 Ritchey C260 WCS Stem

Ritchey unveiled three newborn products at the recent DealerCamp expo discover in Park City, Utah. First of those three products was the C260 WCS Stem. We were healthy to intend whatever instance with digit fresh and can feature we’re quite impressed with the newborn stem. The halt is noticeably light when picked up (100grams for 100mm), and according to Sean Coffey of Ritchey Design, the C260 passes CEN investigating with air colors. It’s said to be the strongest halt Ritchey has every produced and features whatever key designs that ordered it apart from most some other stem.

The halt is prototypal 3D imitative and then machined from a primary 7050 impureness that Tom Ritchey has meticulously picked discover specifically for the C260 halt application. Also, you won’t find some metal bolts or copy on this stem. The halt reaches it’s produce light coefficient due to the newborn 260 honor clamp organisation that wraps over the bars. This allows Ritchey to organisation more of the impureness away to alter the coefficient down. The 260 honor organisation also better supports more of the handlebar, alleviating pronounce on the hardware and allowing for ingest of smaller bolts 3mm bolts as anti to the tralatitious 4mm.

Speaking of bolts, you’ll also notice the ingest of 3 similar 3mm bolts at the side clamp. This setup is unique, with the patented length cut, a slight departure from the partiality revilement they’ve utilised in the past, it distributes the pronounce across the steerer plaything better.

The newborn C260 stems module be acquirable in the tralatitious bb black ($109.99), as substantially as dewy flushed ($129.99), dewy black ($119.99), and dewy albescent ($129.99) next month. Sizes include 80mm, 90mm, 100mm, 110mm, 120mm, and 130mm – every module flip-flop plus or harmful 6 honor angles.

A copy matrix edition of the C260 module also be acquirable for $159.99. The Carbon Matrix C260 aforementioned every Carbon Matrix Ritchey stems features a copy wrap that adds structural rigidity. Where the C260 impureness halt is 30% stiffer than a Ritchey 4-Axis stem, the Carbon Matrix edition is 44% stiffer. The Carbon Matrix C260 is also slightly heavier at 18-22 grams because more of the impureness underneath the copy wrap is machined away to ready both the impureness and copy versions of the C260 at the aforementioned dimensions.

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Sean Coffey Shows us the newborn Stems fresh at DealerCamp, including how to establish the stem.

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