Bike Porn: The PRO Bikes At Interbike

Besides the celebrities themselves, like in yesterdays post. A lot of booths featured the PRO's bicycles as a way to lure us all in with bright and shiny things. In fact there were so many of them that I'm sure I missed quite a few. But I'll do my level best to get through what I found.

Please forgive me if I sort of skim over some of the technical stuff in this post. Because I'll go into a lot more detail about that in a later post.

So hold onto your butts. Grab your drool buckets and tissues. Let us begin....

A good spot to open. Cadel Evans bike from the last stage of the Tour de France. The picture doesn't really show it. But the drop from the saddle to the bars on his bike is pretty intense. It's not a foot. But close....

Mark Cavendish's bike. Another guy who is the in the growing "zero spacers" club. A huge stem too (Huh, huh, Mark's got a big stem...)! It's a 140mm. Crazy.

Contador's Specialized. I was really surprised at how big the bike actually was. I always sorta pictured him as a real little guy. But for a cyclist, he seems to be pretty average in height.

Jose Joaquin Rojas Pinarello. The first bike I saw with Campy electronic shifting on it. Pretty sweet ride.

Nick Nuyens bike that he won this years Tour of Flanders on.  I'm amazed at how many pro's use the traditional bend handlebar. Kind of makes me wonder if they know something I don't know. Hmmm....

This one is for John! I am ashamed to say I have know idea who this guy is (Chris McCormock). But evidently he is a serious bad ass in the triathlon world. Especially since he won the world championships on this bike.

Chris Horner's bike. I'm assuming this isn't the one that he took a digger on in the Tour de France this year. But it was still cool to see. He's a guy I wish was there to meet as well. Oh well, I have to have an excuse to go back anyway right?

And good ol' Samuel Sanchez's Orbea Orca. I must admit I have always been a fan of Orbea. Although not of this model and certainly not what Sammy has done to it. Okay!!! We get it. You won the Olympic gold medal. But do you have to put that God awful gold tape, saddle, and bling on there!? Seriously dude. It looks like your trying to be a hip hop artist~



Rubber side down yo!!

Big E