James’s New Bike

I have had a lot of friends and customers ask Why, and some riding buddy’s have even toss out “traitor”. Why retire my Cervelo SLC SL? Well it has been hard to pass on the best bike I had ever ridden.For the past two years It was my rocket, the Ferrari, a true Pro tour team bike. But all good things have their “day”. This all started at Trek world 2010 back in August  I got to test drive a 6.9 for the first time, Wow this bike impressed me. All the performance that I want and have been use to, but with added comfort all day. After that test drive I started thinking why not?

Why not, be able to pick the paint job that you dream about. Why not be able to pick all of the parts that you want to ride. Why not be able to pick the cable housing color and the cork tape color. Why not be able to pick the decal color on your wheels. Trek bikes call it the end of “No” All of this and delevery times of  14 days or more…. WOW!

This is the bike frame that Lance and the boys fought with in their own team and with the rest of the peleton to win the Tour de France this past summer.

The whole procses is fun form start to finish.

Frist step is jumping on the Trek Project one web site. The hardest step is the first, pick your paint. Select series are stock paint jobs and do not cost extra. Signature series is where your dream bike live. Mutiple combinations can be dreamed up on your computer. I tryed many diffrent paint jobs but kept coming back to the Team Issue with White primary and Chi Rede as the secondary.  Rick kept pressing me to get the Green Flames, but that’s just not my style.

Second step is the drive train. That was easy for me, dream bike = Super Record 11. Once you have ridden Campagnolo you understand. Nothing shifts like it and nothing has the same erogonomics for your hands. Their are three diffrent actions in a modern shifter, and with campy their are 3 diffrent levers for each job. Break lever, up shift lever and a down shift lever. With three up shifts and five down shifts with one sweep of the levers, you can react so fast to any hill or sprint faster that other shifters. And it just looks bad ass and so euro…

Third step is components. Wheels, saddle, bar, stem and housing color. Wheels very easy, Bontrager. More grand tours have been won and raced on these wheels than any other wheel system. They also have a five year warranty on defects. With Project One you get to chose the decal color to make the look of the bike unreal. The bar and stem is getting down to width and length and of course it had to be white. Once this step is done, the fine details are complete by chosing the cranks size, gear compination and cassette sizing.

Total custom, and shipping in 14 days or more, why not!

How does it ride? This is now the best bike I have ever ridden. And I have only has 250km on it so far. It reacts to any thing I want to do so fast. The performance is on par with my past ride, but it is much more comfortable. Three hours in to a ride my body is fresher and I still can rip a killer sprint with out the usual protest from my body. All I can say is look out next year boys…. And last but not least  it looks so much hotter on on the road.  Watch for it on rides next year.