xc, road and tt... stumpjumper, tarmac and slice!!!

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ophiravina
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by ophiravina

hello, my name is ophir and I'm a junior racer. I dont have a main goal, I love all the riding styles, it's a good thing and a bad thing at the same time... :oops: but I dont care...

my mtb:
frame L sized stumpjumper comp carbon FACT 8m
fork RockShox Reba RL 29 90mm
crankset SRAM S-1250
cassette SRAM PG-1030
Shimano SLX shifters
RD Shimano XT Shadow Plus
FD SRAM X7
chain KMC X10
wheelset ROVAL 29 (2170g)
brakes shimano xt
rotors magura Storm SL rotors (180\160)
tyres Fast Trak Control rear, the captain control front
joe's tubeless kit
handlebar Specialized XC flat 640mm
stem ritchey pro 120mm
seatpost Specialized Comp carbon (230g)
saddle aliexpress toupe (96g)
specialized rib cage *2 (72g)
pedals shimano m540 (352g)

weight: 11.180

photo:
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photo is from yesterday, on a local xc compation (I got 4th place :) )

my road bike:
frameset size 58 specialized sl4 pro
shimano dura ace 7800 53\39 175mm (655g)
bb adapter from pf30 to 24
shifters 105
RD 105
FD 105
chain 105
cassette 105
first set of wheels: mavic ksyrium elite s with Vredestein Fortezza TriComp tyres
second set of wheels: matrix tx50 with Continental Sprinter Tubular Tyre
brakes: oem brakes (about 330g)
handlebar specialized comp-set 440mm (322g)
stem: bontrager race lite 105mm 17 degree (137g)
saddle: specialized toupe comp gel 143mm (230g)
seatpost: ritchey comp (250g)
cage: specialized rib cage *2 (72g)
pedals: shimano pd-r550 (330g)

weight:
8.053 kg with the mavic
7.761 kg with the matrix

photo:
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photo is from today, on a local road compation of 116 km (I got 7th place :) )

another photo, of both:
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my tt bike:
frameset size 56 Cannondale Slice Aero SAVE carbon
Crankset FSA Gossamer Pro, BB30
shifters Microshift bar-end
RD ultegra
FD 105
chain 105
cassette 105
wheels: matrix tx50 with Continental Sprinter Tubular Tyre
brakes: ultegra
handlebar: Cannondale C3 Base w/FSA Tri Max Team clip-ons
stem: 3t arx ltd 90 mm
saddle: Cannondale Ergo Tri
seatpost: Cannondale Slice Aero carbon (dual-position)
pedals: shimano pd-r550

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ophiravina
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by ophiravina

there's a problem...
the new rules for junior's time trial races says that we cant use a time trial bike....
we can only use a road bike with clip-on aerobar.
my options are:
1) to sell my time trial bike :-(
2) to buy a drop bar, road shifers and clip-on aero bar and put on my time trial bike and say that it's a road bike.

what do you think I should do?
I'm pretty skeptikal about converting my tt bike in to a road bike....

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munk93
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by munk93

National or international rule? That sucks man. I understand the rule in the younger classes (U17 and so on), but this is a bit too far. If you can get awy with the dropbar/clip-on solution, you should do it. You can always use the bike after juniors.
Good looking bikes :thumbup:

tk2306
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by tk2306

Go for it and put some drops on the tt rig, thats what a lot of the juniors here in australia do as they are restricted by the same rules (up to u19's). You can always keep the bike and use it once you are out of juniors as well! :thumbup:

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ophiravina
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by ophiravina

thank you all for the advices :-)
I'll check if it is possible to race with the bike as is first, I looked on how they define a tt bike and the rules were not to use an integrated bar and not to use disc wheel. so maybe I could race with my canondale as is, I have a base bar and an aero bar, not an integrated bar....
the next tt competition is in two weeks and I think I will go there with both of my bikes and if the judges wont let me use my tt bike, I will use my road bike.
remember: It's not the bike, it's the rider

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ophiravina
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by ophiravina

I have some good news and some bad news. the bad news are that I broke my leg... (it wasn't even while cycling, I ran down the stairs and fell :oops: ) no cycling for for about 3 weeks :cry:

I also found a big crack in my mtb :(
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The good news are:
a mounth ago I orderd a handlebar and pulleys for my road bike and brake levers for my tt bike. they arived and I installed them :-)

now my road bike looks like this:
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the handlebar is 3t ergosum ltd:
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and the pulley are kcnc:
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I installed the specialized bar that I had on road bike, on my tt bike:
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now I can use them for racing :-)

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by btompkins0112

Sorry to hear about the leg! You can use the time to replace the bar tape. ;-)

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ophiravina
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by ophiravina

btompkins0112 wrote:Sorry to hear about the leg! You can use the time to replace the bar tape. ;-)

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thank you :-)

maybe I will buy black Lizard skin bar tape. it looks comfortable... and it will fit my bike better :-)

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by whydobearsxplod

Too bad about broken leg and mountain bike. Hope you are healing up ok. Will you have the frame repaired?

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ophiravina
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by ophiravina

whydobearsxplod wrote:Too bad about broken leg and mountain bike. Hope you are healing up ok. Will you have the frame repaired?


I dont know yet. I asked the specialized dealer about the warrenty, he took some pics of the frame and sent them to specialized....
I hope they will replace it.

If they wouldn't replace my frame, I will look for an aluminum frame....

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ophiravina
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by ophiravina

specialized they said that its my fault and that I probably fell and the frame got hit by an object. they didn't give me warrenty :-(

the specialized dealer gave me an aluminium frame instead of my broken carbon one :-) :
http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=124082

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