Parlee Z-Zero (4/8 - New Pics)

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pje0713
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by pje0713

Recently bought this Parlee Z-Zero with custom geometry, waxed carbon frame (red/white decals), and custom painted fork, seatpost, and stem.

Final weight(s):

6.44kg / 14lb, 3 oz. w/ Boras and Extralite Skewers

6.35kg / 14lbs w/ Meilensteins and Lightweight Skewers

Frame: Parlee Z-Zero Custom
Fork: Parlee Fork (Enve)
Headset: Cane Creek
Topcap and Bolt: Mcfk
Seatpost clamp: Parlee
Seatpost: Enve Offset (removed 28g of post)
Seat: Selle Italia SLR Teknoflow (105g)
Stem: Enve 120mm (117g)
Bar: Enve Compact
Bartape: Arundel Gecko
bottle cages and hardware: Arundel Mandible w/ Parlee matte paint; swapped standard nuts for ti nuts
Bottom Bracket Cups: Parlee PF30 to Campy
Cables: Campagnolo
Brakes: Campagnolo Super Record
Crankset: SRM Campagnolo Super Record 53-39
Chain: Campagnolo Record 11 spd
Shifters: Campagnolo Super Record
Cassette: Campagnolo Super Record 11-23
Wheels: Campagnolo Bora Ultra Two
Skewers: Extralite Aliens 3 (+65g when using the Campy QRs)
Tubulars: Veloflex Extreme
Pedals: Look Keo Blade 2 Ti
Garmin Mount: Raceware Direct for 810

Here are pics.

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mrfish
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by mrfish

Nice bike. Was the paint Baum influenced?

Any reason why the seat post clamp is facing forwards?
Also show us the tool kit - it looks about the cleanest and most orderly work bench I've seen.

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pje0713
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by pje0713

I didn't set out to copy baum paint but it ended up looking pretty close, didn't it? I love the baum look, and it ended up working with my overall goal for the bike.

The main goal was to leave the frame just carbon to save weight and showoff the raw material. That leaves the post, fork, and stem to paint. It restricts your options a bit to say the least.

The shop that I bought this from (and who built this up) built it with the seatpost clamp flipped. They report it helps even out the clamping stress to have the opening in the clamp opposite the opening in the seat tube. So I'm trying it out.

I can post a pic of the tool chest, but it's only organized occasionally and mostly because it's such a well designed tool chest. Here's a link to more pics.

http://www.strictlytoolboxes.com/montez ... -36in.html
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pje0713
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by pje0713

More pics here by the bike shop, Velosmith, before I swapped the red painted stem for an all-black stem instead: https://www.facebook.com/velosmithbicyc ... gefilter=3

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by Tamu8104

Nice build. Very clean and well put together. Enjoy!!
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by Ozrider

That looks fantastic, perfectly colour coordinated.




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NiFTY
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by NiFTY

Looks great. I would lose the Bora stickers - as they look too stickery to me but great build. The forwards seatpost clamp is becoming more common, evos are all built that way.
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Quickdraw
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by Quickdraw

Great build! How did you get the enve stem without the graphics? I have been trying to get some enve parts without the graphics for a build, but no luck so far.

pje0713
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by pje0713

They are from Parlee. For the stem it's unclear whether they get it like that from enve or they paint it matte in house. I'm assuming the latter but not sure. The post and fork are painted by parlee.

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kac
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by kac

I agree regarding the wheel stickers. They are so prominent they overwhelm the rest of the otherwise beautiful bike!

pje0713
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by pje0713

For all you flashy sticker haters, I swapped on Meilensteins to get a sense of the bike with darker wheels.

With the Lightweight wheels and skewers the bike is dead on 14lbs. / 6.35kg

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pje0713
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by pje0713

One of the cool things Parlee can do is etch designs into the raw carbon through a kind-of sandblasting process.

I had Parlee logos etched on the headtube, a z-zero logo etched on the downtube above the bb, and a few racing stripes with a z-zero logo etched on the top of the top tube.

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irongatsby
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by irongatsby

Beautiful work. So, about how much of the weight does the power meter stuff account for?

pje0713
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by pje0713

There is about a 7-8 oz penalty moving to the srm from a campy ti crank.

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