Torelli

So the parts acquisition is almost done. Its going to be built up with Shimano 600 in that retro gunmetal grey color.

Just need some cranks, saddle and a few small parts. That and some race wheels, see post below.

I need race wheels, retro race wheels

So the one main difference about a funnybike and the reason its "funny" is because of the front wheel being a smaller 650c instead of 700.

The cool thing is 650c wheels arent so popular anymore and can be found cheaper than 700 wheels. Thats good for me.

I'm looking at a few on Ebay right now, this Mavic 3G pictured above.

It would look so cool.

A new tt bike

Well, bikes come and go huh?

In the last couple of years I've owned several TT bikes: My Cannondale R1000 I rode at Eppies, Cervelo Soloist, Cervelo P2k and now this.



I decided to put together a totally retro totally fabulous funnybike.

I picked up a Torelli funnybike from a guy locally and have been acquiring the parts for it. Its purple even.

My goal is to kick some ass on an old school piece of biking technology.



When I first got her, she was completely covered in grime and dirt, had a Capitol Velo sticker on the top tube (that looked out of place) and had too many spacers on the steering tube see below.


this is after cleaning.

The song to go with the TT porn

Some pics of my new bike, not yet finished, but close to go with the tunes.

Artificial sunshine

Yeah so the rains came down today in portland oregon. Luckily, the rain didnt wash away my motivation to get out and train, like it had the past two days.

Around 1p, I got my things together and drove to the downtown 24hr fitness. The nice thing about the gym is that I can dress as if its a warm spring day, shorts and a sleeveless jersey and pound out the sweat on the treadmill while watching all shapes of people sweating along with me.

40 mins on the t'mill, then 10 mins on the bike, then another fast 5 mins on the t'mill and my workout was over.

I bought a sun tanning package, hoping that maybe my lack of motivation in training was related to the grey days and the lack of vitamin D in my system. 6 mins later I had a mega dose sunshine and went home.

Fun to run

Thats what Im telling myself.

Ran today, 25 mins, including some hills, wore the HR monitor and GPS. Took it easy, wasnt supposed to be hard.

New TT frame should arrive soon. Still need to sell the Soloist.

DZ

too bad DZ is out, hes a bad mother#$#$@

Training

So, got over some minor illness. I really wasnt that sick, but thats because I took rest and recovered soon. Its frustrating to have to take rest days when mentally I want to train, but by the end of last week I didnt want to train. I felt tired and un-motivated.

Saturday was a sunny day, and I felt renewed hope and I went for a run. And i felt great. Sunday did a tough treadmill run. Monday off and tonite just got back from a tough run around my neighborhood.

12 mi bike TT this weekend, if I got a bike to ride

2 weeks from now a 5 mile run race. Im looking forward to this.

Brake levers

I want these, internal cable routing!

A new Frame

So yeah, I bought a new frame today. Made a deal with a guy online for his Cervelo P2k. A pretty fast triathlon/TT bike. The Soloist was good, but road riding isnt my focus, TT's, Du's and one Tri is my focus, So i decided i needed a tt focused bike as well.

Ill be selling the Soloist shortly. Moving all the parts off of it and onto the new white P2k. Im excited, this bike should rock pretty hard.

The frame is the same size, and i've looked at the geometry, so it should match me pretty well.