Feb 4, 11:26 AM by Steve | Maiden Voyage
Posted in Cycling & Gear
I finally got the new Tarmac SL build up last week, tightened everything down over the weekend and taped the bars this morning. Today I took it for its first real ride and I have to say, its very nice. The cliche review phrase “laterally stiff and vertically compliant” came to mind, as well as “soaks up road vibration”. It was a very comfortable ride but still very aggressive on fast corners, and the weight (or lack thereof) was noticable when rocking the bike in out of-the-saddle efforts. Below is the bike at Mothballs (I didn’t race it but brought it along to play with), before wrapping the bars and with my heavier Ksyrium ES wheels & SS skewers. As pictured, we weighed it (on the scale TnA conveniently had in his truck) at 14lbs, 15oz, but the I weighed the R-SYS wheelset out at about half a pound lighter (using Ti skewers).
