Lance Armstrong has a new bike......

[pista]

....and it's not a TREK

 

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Having been associated closely with Trek during his racing career, Lance Armstrong has tweeted that he now has a new Parlee Z-Zero road bike.

 

Lance said, “Down @mellowjohnnys building up my new @parlee_z1. What a beauty!! Right at 15 lbs.”

 

Mellow Johnny’s is a bike store in Austin, Texas, owned by Armstrong. The name comes from maillot jaune – French for ‘yellow jersey’.

Mellow Johnny's is a Trek dealership. Whereas usually Trek might not be too pleased with an ex-pro and current dealer showing off a bike other than a Trek, in this case they're probably fairly relaxed about the situation.

 

The Parlee race bike brand was established by Bob Parlee in Massachusetts about a decade ago.

 

The Z-Zero is custom-made to order in 16 semi-custom sizes, or in a full-custom geometry. Parlee say that they can tune the ride characteristics to each rider's exact requirements.

 

Armstrong has gone for a Shimano Dura-Ace 9700 groupset here. Previously, he had a contract with SRAM but the US component brand terminated it last year in the light of revelations about Armstrong’s doping during his race career – you might have heard about that!

[Bonus]

Why would you name your shop after the "Yellow Jersey" when you don't even have one?

 

;-)

[Brett]

custom bike with enve components... heavy budget

[gummibear]

At least he has great taste in bikes

['Dale]

What a beaut!

[urbanroyal]

Why would you name your shop after the "Yellow Jersey" when you don't even have one?

 

;-)

 

You right ...he doesn't have one ...he has seven .... :-)

[DIPSLICK]

 

 

You right ...he doesn't have one ...he has seven .... :-)

Haters gonna hate

[DJR]

And so, Lance Armstrong attempts to kill off the hugely respected bike builder Parlee......................

[DIPSLICK]

Build the brand watch this space

[T-Bob]

My best mate in the UK has just traded out his Spez' for one of these. Custom built carbon.

 

He went through a whole laser fitting session like they do with the 3d body capture for films. That data was sent to the factory, another tweak session and then a follow up session with all his other bikes to ensure they are all the same set up.

 

Then he had the joy of spec'ing his whole set up.

 

I have no idea what it cost him but it was a wedge.

 

The result:

 

[DIPSLICK]

My best mate in the UK has just traded out his Spez' for one of these. Custom built carbon.

 

He went through a whole laser fitting session like they do with the 3d body capture for films. That data was sent to the factory, another tweak session and then a follow up session with all his other bikes to ensure they are all the same set up.

 

Then he had the joy of spec'ing his whole set up.

 

I have no idea what it cost him but it was a wedge.

 

The result:

 

A lot of ZUMAS

[gummibear]

Watch Trek sales drop and Parlee sky rocket........just hope their prices don't increase.

LA still has millions of fans out there.

[Danger Dassie]

Who knows, maybe he'll rediscover a love of cycling. Moving along.

[T-Bob]

Who knows, maybe he'll rediscover a love of cycling. Moving along.

 

Had to laugh about his tweet when Di Luca got caught.

 

"@lancearmstrong: Knowing I have 0 cred on the doping issue - I still can't help but think, "really Di Luca? Are you that f*uck/ng stupid??"

 

Still a tool tho.

Edited May 28, 2013 by hellocolour

[gummibear]

A Z zero frame with ENVE 1.0 fork is about $7500.

[MariusL]

 

 

Had to laugh about his tweet when Di Luca got caught.

 

"@lancearmstrong: Knowing I have 0 cred on the doping issue - I still can't help but think, "really Di Luca? Are you that f*uck/ng stupid??"

 

Still a tool tho.

 

What a legend...