Too Tall
03-12-2004, 07:54 AM
Tell me about a rescue bike or one of your old bikes you decided to resurrect.
Last weekend I decided it was foolish not to have a backup to the Legend so I dusted off Mr. Clark Kent AX-1 and assessed his state....pretty sad. All wasted DA 8 speed stuff. So, I dug through the parts drawers and cobbled together a pretty decent Ultegra 9 setup, flipped the stem as I'm NOT riding ultras these days. Fitted a new saddle and a sexy pair of carbon wheels AND my new 110bcd DaVinci cranks (34X50) and Phil MagTi BB. I toodled around the 'hood making adjustments for a while and than suited up and went for a real hard training ride. Did 6 repeats of the longest steepest hill around and an hr. of tempo. got home, put the bikes parallel to each other...stood back and low and behold they are dead on. Muscle memories are a wonderful thing.
I am using the compact crank with a 12X23 and wanna tell you DO IT and don't look back. Sprinting in a 50 X 12 is legit and you'll LOVE the lower gears and ability to big ring more. A DUH moment in cycling for me and p'd (at myself) that FSA had to wake me up.
The Clark Kent AX-1 is an awesome bike. Very strong tubing, short chainstays a custom rake steel fork and a nutty looking curved seattube. The bike is comparable to the legend as both have a steel feel but the Clark Kent is a better sprinter. Oh, my name is on the TT in gold script.....POSEUR!!!!
Any-who, was feeling back in love again with my trusty steel beast and plan to make better use of my old pal.
Ha ha, one minor glitch in the re-build was I could not find a decent working Ultegra left STI so I used an ancient DA downtube shifter for the front Der. Sooooo shiek and sooooo unintentional.
Dang, let's see what else I can dust off.
Last weekend I decided it was foolish not to have a backup to the Legend so I dusted off Mr. Clark Kent AX-1 and assessed his state....pretty sad. All wasted DA 8 speed stuff. So, I dug through the parts drawers and cobbled together a pretty decent Ultegra 9 setup, flipped the stem as I'm NOT riding ultras these days. Fitted a new saddle and a sexy pair of carbon wheels AND my new 110bcd DaVinci cranks (34X50) and Phil MagTi BB. I toodled around the 'hood making adjustments for a while and than suited up and went for a real hard training ride. Did 6 repeats of the longest steepest hill around and an hr. of tempo. got home, put the bikes parallel to each other...stood back and low and behold they are dead on. Muscle memories are a wonderful thing.
I am using the compact crank with a 12X23 and wanna tell you DO IT and don't look back. Sprinting in a 50 X 12 is legit and you'll LOVE the lower gears and ability to big ring more. A DUH moment in cycling for me and p'd (at myself) that FSA had to wake me up.
The Clark Kent AX-1 is an awesome bike. Very strong tubing, short chainstays a custom rake steel fork and a nutty looking curved seattube. The bike is comparable to the legend as both have a steel feel but the Clark Kent is a better sprinter. Oh, my name is on the TT in gold script.....POSEUR!!!!
Any-who, was feeling back in love again with my trusty steel beast and plan to make better use of my old pal.
Ha ha, one minor glitch in the re-build was I could not find a decent working Ultegra left STI so I used an ancient DA downtube shifter for the front Der. Sooooo shiek and sooooo unintentional.
Dang, let's see what else I can dust off.