khz.eurorunners.com

really awesome driving skills… just have a look yourself.

650 hp ford fiesta driven insanly by ken block:

very good compilation

if you have more.. comment an post them.

After having pimped the 1.9 about a year ago low budget ( see article here )

I have changed the look now to be more pure black & white. I already bought the ultegra 6600 brakes in black some month ago and now invested in a new wheelset (mavic cosmic carbon sl), new tires (conti gp 4000)  and a new hand-bar tape in  black.

And here is the result. Tadaaa:

Trek 1.9 Cosmic Carbon black & white

just got it today.

I probably need to get the crankset and the rear derailleur in black as well – but we’ll see.

For now I just .. can’t wait to ride

Nerdic walking team attended to the weyher duathlon 2011.
Great organisation, great event, lots of fun.

More of that …

I like this bike.

Cube Aerium Pro 2010

Cool color, frame style, aero parts – cool bike design and good quality parts as well. Even the price seems ok – I think it’s a perfect package for hobbyists.

By the way, I added an aerobar to the Trek 1.9 – not like the cube but rides amazingly good and fluent. See the pic here.

Training is:
400m,600m,800m,600m,400, in 5km race speed (4:30-4:45)
With 2 Minutes pause.

quick, Fast, Funny.

Next training will be running 10-12km slowly at 70-75% HR.

See the Details at connect.garmin.com , tracked with the garmin forerunner 305, of course.

This is just a short update but I can tell you that I really use the garmin 305 now how it was ment to be used. I planned trianings, created tracks and am very excited ..

So more to come

Well, quite some time that nothing happened – at least in the blog.

But now it is time to prepare for spring 2011. The bike(s) first and hopefully me following a short time later.

I got a voucher for a local bike store for christmas last year and so I searched the web for some parts to improve on the Trek 1.2. I decided that I would like to change the following parts:

• the handlebar tape from black to white for optical reasons
• the brakes from shimano sora to shimano ultegra
• the pedals from no-name to shmano 105

I looked for some used brakes in bike forums and foun some pretty nice shimano ultegra 6600-sl in black. I was very convinced that the black brakes would improve the look of the red-black-white 1.2. I bought them and received them without any problems.

Just as a statement for private2private deals on the internet. It is not so unusual that I buy little things on the internet and I literally almost nevder encounter any problems. Not regarding the payment and delivery, nor the quality of the products.

I searched the web also for some retro style pedals with toe-clips. I think I already posted that I drive my bike to work and also use it for some duathlon style sports. So toe-clips is ideal for me since I can ride the bike with normal sneekers and do not have to spend the extra money for special bike shoes.. I personally also assume that I am faster while changing from biking to running. But since evreryone else rides clip-ins I think I might be wrong

Anyway, I brought some really nice shimano 105 pedals with retro style toe-clips and I finally brought the bike to the bike-shop and asked them to pimp it up….

They called me the following day and told me something that really suprised me. The white handlebar tape was on – fine. The pedals were mouned -fine. But the brakes I bought just do no fit.They told me that the length of brakes has changed over the time and that all the new brakes, like the shimano ultegra 6600 I bough have a length of 49mm. But the frame of the Trek 1.2 requires to have brakes that are 57mm long. To make it short, the ultegras do not fit.

I was really shocked since you can read everywhere that things really changed over time, but the Trek 1.2 is a 2009 (model 2010) so I was really sure that all modern bikeparts would fit. But to make it short again, the brakes do not.

They constructed the Trek 1.2 frame so, that it is also possible to add fenders. That is very cool on the one hand – e.g. if you would like to take the Trek as a winter bike, but it requires space as well and omits you from adding any of the modern brakes from the shimano series to the bike.

Actually you cannot buy any 105, ultegra or dura-ace brake in length 57mm.

So I leave it for the pedal and the hadlebar tape for the moment. The guys from the shop also lifted the handlebar one spacer (since I felt it was a bit too low) and adjusted the brakes. The brakes are really awesome compared to before.

See a pic of the result here. (you maybe cannot see the 105 pedals, but believe me, they’re there

Hi folks,

here some pics to visualize the evolution of the Trek 1.2 since I bought it

Trek 1.2 summer 2009

some positive changes to my mind

So mostly only the frame, saddle stayed the same (exaggeration of course)

Just wanted to make my black & white Trek 1.9 look a little more fancy without spending lots of money. So I decided to change the colour of the tires and the handlebar tape:

• replace the standard black bontrager road tires by michelin race pro 3 tires in green.
• replace the white bar tape  with a new one in same color of the tires

You gonna get that all together rather cheap ( about 60 € )

Have a look at the result:

Pretty good result for few Euros – at least to my mind.