m y T r i L i f e

Birthday Present

Installed the birthday present today! First ride.... it kicks ass!
- more comfortable than the stock Felt saddle
- had to move my seat position about 1cm back to get the bottle to clear the rear position clamp of my seat post. I had thought about cutting the rear clamp off... but didn't want to remove a UCI legal position if I do more road TT's. As well.. the jutting clamp prevents the bottle from moving about.
- doesn't launch bottles! Took it over a couple sets of railway tracks. Didn't even move up a bit.
- LIGHT. 135g. My minoura double saddle cage mount ALONE was 135g. So, add weight of my seat (300g?) plus two cages (70g).... my bike is lighter by almost a pound!
- more aerodynamic - the bulk of the bottle is in the wind shadow of the seat and body.

Hey Marc.... I know you read my blog... so I threw in your ironguides water bottle to re-pru-sent!

posted by Greg Nicholson @ 8/01/2008