http://www.cyclingtechblog.com Fun, exotic, high performance, lightweight, aerodynamic, geeky bike stuff Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:36:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en John Cobb's new wind tunnel optimized position for me has my arm rests 5cm lower than my 3T Ventus LTD bars, and has my elbows much closer to each other. My choice was to either buy a new Cervelo P4 with a shorter head tube, or to use a crazy ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2010/02/24/worlds-most-aero-uci-legal-bars/ A big box arrived today, which cost a fortune to ship from Germany, but not because of how much it weighed... The very large box felt empty. If I had more time I'd weigh more pieces, but seeing as I'm tight on time, I decided to pull out four things ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/12/16/ax-lightness-weights/ In my previous blog post I described my experience at the Texas A&M wind tunnel with John Cobb. Drum roll please... The results are in. Nathan Lesniewski, who was working with John Cobb for my testing session, sent me two files via email today: Nico's Report (MS Excel) Nico's Raw Data (PDF) In ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/11/30/wind-tunnel-test-results/ As I was driving to Denver International Airport yesterday I was talking to my wife, Sarah, on my cell phone, and telling her that I was going to miss a day of riding while I was doing my wind tunnel testing at the Texas A&M wind tunnel with John Cobb. ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/11/25/wind-tunnel-testing-with-john-cobb-at-texas-am/ Update: These rims are now available, but they are very limited in supply. I wish I had more time to blog about these, but I thought at least I could post some photos. C-4 rims (not available to the public yet) M5 flanged front 24-hole ExtraLite SX rear 24-hole Sapim CX-Ray spokes 1153 grams I haven't ridden ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/11/20/1153-gram-aluminum-clincher-wheels/ This is sort of fun technology -- I'm using an eye-fi SD card in my Panasonic DMC-LX3 which is uploading photos to flickr via my CradlePoint portable router connected to my Verison USB720 EVDO USB Modem. I then used Flickr Slide Show to create a Flash slide show of the ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/09/23/interbike-2009-vegas-photos/ I generally ride at 4:30 AM, so when I stared out at 3:00 PM on this sunny June day in Colorado, I figured that maybe I felt off because my body wasn't used to riding in the heat of the day. I literally felt drunk, or maybe that's an exaggeration ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/06/28/ritchey-broken-away-ticarbon/ This makes me think of the movie Spinal Tap... "But this cassette goes up to eleven!" We just got our first shipment of Campy 11-Speed Aluminum Cassettes from Recon. They are BEAUTIFULLY machined, and quite light. They are not as light as the 10-speed, but I'm sure that's just due to ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/06/28/aluminum-campy-11-speed-cassettes-recon-are-here/ We haven't had time to do anything other than unpack and photograph these stems. They aren't shipping the long or the short stems yet, but we've got 2 of each of the middle range (10cm, 11cm,  12cm). They come in two styles, and I think they both look fabulous. Sorry ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/06/22/edge-stems-have-arrived/ I believe we have the only set of BB30 cups for Lightning Cranks in existence right now. The beauty of the system is that the cranks are exactly the same for BB30 and for standard frames, they just use different cups. The BB30 cups press into a BB30 frame, whereas ... http://www.cyclingtechblog.com/2009/04/06/bb30-version-of-carbon-lightning-cranks/