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Been in Holland and it is very flat. which is ace for powering along their wonderful bike paths. But also very windy. Which is not ace. And it also seems to be a pretty characteristic thing here that the Dutch like to stick Tri bars on just about anything-prams, wheelchairs, sit-up-and-beg bikes, unicorns-it doesn't matter, someone somewhere is riding one at 3mph with some tri bars. It's as funny as it is slightly horrendous.
But when in Rome...
I thought a TT build could be fun and will give me something to tinker with as well as hopefully give me a bike that will be good for getting as aero as possible on these flat windy roads... Slightly ridiculous but fuckit-I'm still young enough that my back will take it and may as well embrace the TT posturing along with the frites and mayonnaise ;)
Originally i was looking for something bendy, but this didn't present itself at a doable price, so instead I found a rather sexy looking Concorde lo-pro in awesome condition, and jumped at it.
Built for Concorde by Ciocc from Columbus Aelle tubing, it's probably late 80's/early 90's and got a rather nice Ofmega headset and BB which i will be servicing and keeping, 650c chromed front fork, and nice aero internal routing for the gear cables on the downtube so I will be making use of them and staying away from bar-end shifters or sti's.
I've not got a huge budget but over the last month I have been scraping some parts together.... won't be pimp-du-luxe but hopefully interesting and functional and without bankrupting me also.
So far i have sourced some nice Mavic bullhorns, Cinelli Laser saddle (banned by UCI for providing too much ass propping I think but won't be an issue for me as i am not even a hairy legged 4th cat and don't race), Shimano Dura-Ace AX aero 'Delta' style brakes, and also swooped on a fairly minty 650c Corima carbon front wheel...
and, of course, some grey and yellow cloth bar tape for attempting a double harlequin pattern having been inspired by the bar tape pron thread.
Not sure if i'll go for aero TT brake levers or just normal clamp on's... I quite like the old school look of them but will need to see how they function too. Other parts I'm thinking will be Shimano in keeping with brakes. Prob 600 biopace cranks, and 7 speed indexed shifters. Rear wheel is going to be tricky... don't want a disc as it will be like a sail in the wind here, but needs to be fairly deep dish and retro to match the rest... TriSpok? Will be keeping me eyes peeled...