Bicycle Porn

So sexy you should have to sign a waiver.



--New '06 Rolf Vigor Wheels (that arrived this morning...with killer black paintjob...the old - now dead - '03's were aluminum and with uglier stickers...huge shout out to Full Cycles for giving me the best price and delivering these bad boys in two days, enough time for a short ride today before tackling the IMWI course this weekend)
--New black Continental 4000 tires.




--Black handlebar tape, as chosen by the Becoming Ironman Blog Alliance - good call on the black everybody. I would have leaned towards metallic blue, but now with the complete picture this is one. bad. mutha. Note the blue bit of tape on the right cowhorn...as I wear a blue rubberband on my wrist...and a shout out to the 49% who wanted the blue -

And just to refresh everyone on what's new on the bike throughout the '06 season, all in preparation for Ironman:

--FSA carbon pro compact crankset (that's the arms the pedals are connected to and the big gears the chain runs through)
--Carbon fiber bottle cages...because dammit, you can never shed enough weight from those bottle cages
--iBike Power Meter (the white computer thing)
--Trek computer (that's the other, smaller computer - and that one's there just because my other one crapped out in May or so)
--New seat post (the thing the saddle is attached to)
--New Specialized Body Geometry saddle (with special notch cut out for improved blood flow so that after long hours on the bike I can continue to have sex, thanks very much) with a carbon fiber body and titanium rails (rails are the things that actually attach the saddle to the seatpost), because dammit you can never shed enough weight from the saddle
--Swanky new Shimano chain as of last week

This is it - you're looking at the official Ironman setup (minus my little lunchbox thingy that straps to my top tube). Can't wait to ride it this weekend on the Ironman course!