I got to ride two different bikes today with the new Dura-Ace R9100. The first bike was the Fuji SL disc. This is a revision of the SL, which was introduced last year. The SL disc adds 75 grams ...
Tag Archives: Dura-Ace
Boarding House Reach
When Mark DiNucci and I were discussing the frame he was going to build for me, I told him I would ask questions and all he had to do was answer them. I trust him. One of the questions I asked ...
The Paceline Podcast #25
Show #25 opens on a high note, and we mean that literally. A Paceline host takes us to the top of the “Going to the Sun Road” in Glacier National Park to get the show going. Of ...
New Dura-Ace: the Geek Goes Squee
This fall Shimano will introduce a new iteration of Dura-Ace, catalogued broadly as 9100. We first heard rumblings of the new group a month or so ago when there was a flap over some early ...
Excellence for the Masses: Di2 Comes to Deore XT
Sea Otter hasn’t even started and arguably the biggest news of week will be Shimano’s announcement that Di2 performance will trickling its way to the company’s Deore XT group. That Deore XT ...
The Paceline Podcast #8
Stage eight of the Paceline starts in Malibu with Padraig throwing down attacks in a two-day Gran Fondo. Lance Armstrong speaks to students at the University of Colorado. We play back some of ...
The Market Leader
Over the last three years, I’ve gotten solid time on a number of different groups. From mechanical groups to electronic ones, and from high end to a few rides on entry-level components, ...
Power by Pioneer
That could have been the tag line for a line of stereo amplifiers in the 1970s, when Pioneer was one of the kings of the home audio market. How times change. If you’d asked me to guess who ...
The Real World Solution
I used to build a lot of wheels. It’s something I really miss, but in life if you choose to be a great wheel builder you must renounce all other ambitions. I had many ambitions, but being a ...
Dura-Ace Di2, a Deeper Look
Some years back I got a chance to ride Dura-Ace Di2 before it was officially unveiled to the press. I was pretty thrilled to get the opportunity to ride a product without the skewing that comes ...