HaroldC

My crit bike for this year - Specialized Allez Race

Impreza_aL

must be nice to not have to hydrate during a race...

beautiful allez!

cycledogg

king-tony,
BMC would be ubber hot if you swapped out the T2 cobras for some HEDs. MHO: don't care much for cobb saddles but I know they are comfortable. I assume it's for TT and not tri?

king-tony

I only run if a bear or ice cream truck is nearby.

coppercook62

Thanks for compliment

coppercook62

Hot

Justiffa

BH Cristal.. hot or not, its the only ride i've got



Tizzy my roadie the day i brought her home.

8086bruce

X2 love it!

save10

not a criticism of the bike, but the photo itself...its kinda busy. A more plain background, though not necessarily a white/beige/troupe garage door would show off your bike better.

mpath

Or a smaller f stop to blur the background.

jtwilson

Yum. Me likey. Reminds me of my CAAD10-1 with Red. HOT!

timmy29er

I thought the same thing myself. Maybe if he had moved the bike 6' to the right, the snowy background would have helped the bike stand out. Hot bike reguardless.

aramis

I think it's hot, but it feels like it should have dura ace 7800 group to match the crank or a sram red crank to match the groupset. Although I have a bike thats all dura ace 7800 and a sram red crank so I guess I did the same thing. I love the dura ace 7800 crankset for some reason. It's also super light which is nice.

HaroldC

I know, I only realized that the background was too busy after I went back inside. I'm trying to find a better location that isn't the typical garage door/plain background shot. I'll update the thread with a better shot as soon as I take it.

bianchi10

There is a reason the standard and plain garage door is used though.....


It works

mpath

Hot!

rkwaki

Nice bike - hot but someone needs to explain to me why they have 'crit bikes'?
Never really understood the logic.

Crash716

disposable cheaper frames?…personally I race on a nearly 4k frame,….but if I crash I get it replaced for A LOT less.

As long as it's the same geometry and fit I could care less if what I race is the same as what I train on, and if you're on a budget, I can totally understand racing a cheaper bike than what you train on. We all know the likelihood of crashing in a race is much higher than training.

rkwaki

Agreed but far too often I see people mention a 'crit bike' yet are racing on $2,500 Zipps (case in point above). The likelihood of pancaking a set of wheels is very high (especially in lower cats). I'm not singling out anyone as I had the same conversation with a friend this week about some buddies who have done the same thing.

PatrickGSR94

A plain background makes it much easier to photograph and make out the details on a bike, since a bike itself is quite thin and transparent (various thin pieces and parts). A busy background makes it much more difficult to see the bike itself. And truthfully my garage door is one of the few places in/around my house that has at least 6 feet of uncluttered, uninterrupted wall space.

Another way is to use a DSLR camera with a long telephoto lens at full zoom, with the largest lens aperture opening (lowest f-stop) so that the background will be nice and blurred while the bike is in focus - like the Cannondale Evo bike shot a couple pages back that everyone was so head-over-heels for. But not everyone has that kind of equipment.

Jeepnut22 

Good Gravy!!

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NWS Alpine

Crit bike is the one that the person actually rides between taking pictures of it. The main bike with electronic shifting an all the lightweight parts is always hand polished and kept on the wall for display. Only comes out to take pictures for this thread.

Nagrom_

Here's my "crit bike," well, soon to be. Hoping to start racing this year.
OH, chopped the steerer and swapped some bits. Sits just under 15. Calling it done.

robncircus

My crit bike has a slightly different geo than my training bike. Add to that the Nashbar parts, aluminum frame, and sticky race tires and that's why mine is different I guess. I'm a pretty slow racer, so I tried hard to make it look like a fast bike as well

Cleave

Rhetorical, right?