Lance Armstrong training session
Check out Lance Armstrong’s Tour prologue machine, replete with Japanese designer Yoshitomo Nara stickers. Photo: PASCAL PAVANI/AFP/Getty Images
New yellow Rotor 3D Cranks just in time for the Tour de France.
To commemorate Cervélo TestTeam’s first Tour de France, the R3SL and S3 models available in very limited quantities in the black and yellow TdF design. You can order the exact same frame as ridden by the Cervélo TestTeam in this year’s Tour; with the extremely limited quantities, it is a true Cervélo collector’s item.
This is a long-distance tri/road model, with one-piece frame, same full in-house production, such as the hollow carbon fibre dropouts, dual-chamber top and down tubes and internal, fully concealed Shimano electronic Di-2-compatible cable routing. Topping off the features list is a slippery, integrated – but fully removable – seat post, which also acts as storage area for the on-board hydration system.
This bike embodies not only cutting-edge features at the top of every bike racers’ wish-list, but also design attributes that will no doubt be ‘paid homage to’ by mainstream brands in the next couple of years.
Alongside the Heidelberg and slimandfast, was an equally-striking, truly cutting edge model; the r-009.
The concept behind this breathtaking example was to build a TT/triathlon bike for a rider only 160cm (5’ 3”) but capable of running full-size 28” wheels. The low seat tube, combined with the short top tube and need to run aero bars presented a challenge many would have shied from, but one Hoffleit relished in. As well as designing and building the frame from scratch, he also developed an aerobar cockpit, a unique all-carbon steering system, still capable of using off-the-shelf stems or bars if required.
The aerobar, the r-001, is also available as a stand-alone product.
There’s a saying amongst designers that ‘if it looks good, it usually works good’.
This could not be truer of the rafael 009. It doesn’t just look good – it looks perfect; a perfect example of a state-of-the-art machine, a bike designed with one rider in mind, a bike built for racing against the clock at the highest level.
Craig Alexander at Kona (2008).
Nike + Lance Armstrong/LIVESTRONG “Driven” Commercial
Torbjørn Sindballe has decided to call it quits do to a heart malfunction.
Torbjørn Sindballe, the fierce-riding Dane known as Thunderbear to the triathlon world, must call it a career although still in his prime. A crowd favorite, the Danish Xpress can no longer ignore a congenital heart problem.
“After meeting with the doctors on Tuesday and sleeping on it,” said Sindballe, “it was clear to me that I was going to end my career. The past two months have been tough as it has been both a very emotional time and a very complex problem for the doctors to advice on. There is very little hard science on elite endurance athletes with heart malformations, but after reviewing the general recommendations and whatever science there is, I feel this is the right decision as there is a clearly elevated risk that the malfunction will progress if I continue.”
![“After the incident in California [DNF at Wildflower] he has gone through extensive testing and evaluation with Danish experts. After considering their advice Torbjørn has decided to stop his career immediately.”](http://21.media.tumblr.com/CFA6DFbv0pd586msQg8CIVqzo1_500.jpg)
“After the incident in California [DNF at Wildflower] he has gone through extensive testing and evaluation with Danish experts. After considering their advice Torbjørn has decided to stop his career immediately.”
It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.
Wisdom of Confucius
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