nuevo velo

carbon italian bike? carbon italian components? yes please! i am beyond stoked to get the new bike rollin in a couple very short weeks. after mistakenly buying a size 58cm steel frame, then getting duped again into buying a size 58cm aluminum frame w/ carbon seat stays (and one effed up headset), i am finally figuring out how everything works and getting my correctly sized 54-55cm bike. not only am i getting the proper fit, i am pulling out all of the stops and getting it tricked out, thanks to my bud niall.

here is the skinny: viner mitus frame and deda black magic fork, fsa k-force megaexo crank and bb, cane creek 33mm carbon clinchers, schwalbe tires, crank bros quattro ti pedals, modolo bars and stem, alien seatpost, fizik arione saddle, and if you didn't understand by the picture to the right, full 06 campy record for everything else. now i am no absurdly obsessed weight weenie, but i like to know how light my bike is just like any other normal dude. after doing the quick math and summing it all up (and i mean all of it), i am coming close to 14-15 lbs for this bad boy - totally built up. i figure for another half pound to full pound of error, but that still puts it at 16.5 max.

holy guano batman!! couple that with the potential opportunity to race the valley of the sun stage race in new mexico this feb, go back to my family's home town lucca (in tuscany) for a week to do a granfondo, and some incredibly rapid upgrading to cat 2 for the tour of shenandoah, and i have got a stacked winter of training ahead of me. i guess i had better put my legs where my mouth is and just start riding. on that note...

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