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Bah, they had curved TVs when I was a kid :p

Yeah nah, one less fastener, but mainly, Shimano put the arms where the load is; big gaps at tdc and bdc, and even figured one opposing pair should be beefier than the other. It's optimised AF compared to any five arm spider.

Shimano's cranks balance lateral rigidity of the big ring against weight in the design criteria, everyone knows the best front shifting is on a Shimano crank...

Just came across this bad boy on Weight Weenies

Edit: Whoops, wrong thread

Like the 4 arm spider will make a difference to a weekend warrior.

Folks who say this sort of thing don't get it, I reckon.

Five is arbitrary. Four is optimised. Therefore four looks better. If it works better, it looks better. Include all the current optimisations and you have a 6kg beast that's distilled joy to ride.

Witness the fitness.

Does anyone here eat with a knife and forks?

It's a fork, innit

I'm sure some folks love it

Not without pics

Oof

Surely a Record post is called for. It's a Merckx

They work great for a single built post and are fairly light, but I'm afraid they look like arse, and not to be a snob, but unless you're making a point, Kalloy probably doesn't belong on the same bike as Record kit...

Not sure if any alloy post has appreciable flex, but if they can, then the tall clamp design eats into flex length too

Comes with the drillium, then?

Nice, except for the Kalloy post

Super confused - such an old-school looking chainring, drillium aside, yet it's sporting shift gates and lift pins!

Who did that? Velo Orange or someone?

Paul Brodie is great too, but he talks so slowly. I watch him at 1.25x, it's perfect ;)

If it makes you feel any better, the 27.2 has a smoother ride than the ISP.

And the ISP really needs an integrated bar/stem to fully pop, but I'm married to the Aeronova shape, and the only integrated Aeronova is a knock-off so nasty it's almost basically junk - I know, I bought one :(

Technology Connections is an Aspie superstar.

Man, you've gotta want a particular fork pretty hard

I'd say one of the main traits of these 2K bikes would be alloy frames and carbon (rear) forks, or lugged carbon frames. Monocoque frames would be pushing the genre except if ex pro frame.

This bad boy was identical to the T-Mobile frameset, just with different paint... Came out in Oz in '06 with full 7800 and Ksyrium ES, was 7.1kg and cost $8.5k. You could get the frameset in Europe with pretty much the same paintjob but with T-Mobile on the top tube instead of this poxy Arial font junk, that was €2.5k...

This one is a bit on the large side for me, but I picked it up a few years ago for $600; was just gonna strip and flip it, but it's such a weapon. These days it's Di2 only, with a full internal loom I DIYed, and 9000 except for the nicer 9100 levers and way cooler 7400 rear brake, comes in at 6.1kg with the Caden tubs. Oh yeah, I sold the 7800 off it for $560, lol.

Been looking for one in my size pretty much since I got this, and late last year found one out in the sticks for $1k, in incredible nick. Reckon I could get $800 for that group - no crank scuffs or RD road rash! Although now I've gotta do this Di2 hack job all over again.

Looking forward to it though; gonna be a tad lighter and a whole lot sexier in my size.

Damn, that thing was pretty damn rad for its time, even without the weird wheel and fork.

Look at the parts on it! Toeclips, and not even a slant parallelogram RD! How does it get to be carbon?!

I thought the only carbon bikes in those days are plain tubes bonded to ally lugs.

If you plot the ratios for 38/50/52 rings, it flattens the curve to bigger gaps in the big ring beautifully. A Di2 road half-step triple would be glorious...

Did anyone happen to pick up one of those di2 triple FD when they were getting flogged cheaply? My friend and I are looking to setup our tandem with di2 and were hoping to get hold of one of these.

What the hell? Is this really a thing, because I'd be very surprised.

Fucking brilliant

Terriblest

Wonder if the back tyre hits the seat tube when you go over a pothole