Adam x Titanium Allen Speed

May 6th, 2008 by admin (1) bikes

This is a New Zealand titanium Allen Speedframe (produced in Taiwan!!)
which is a unique TT design that won the world champs in ’96, till the
controlling body outlawed against triangulated top tubes. I love the
aggressive geometry which i made more radical by changing front fork and
wheel out to a 650C. It is actually very comfortable to ride, i find it
rarely necessary to get out of the saddle (since your nearly standing up
anyway!). Components of interest are the back wheel which is also a NZ
made item called a ‘Lollipop’ from the early 90′s. It is some sort of
carbon/foam construction, the whole thing is completely flat and is 20mm
thick. The bars and stem are a Cinelli integrated unit i found on ebay,
stripped the powder coating off and polished up. The front calliper is a
way cool DuraAce AX from the late 80′s/90′s, which is art itself. The
cranks are an old banged up set of Campy Chorus i stripped back, drilled
some holes in and polished up. Being a time trial bike it had absolutely
vertical drop outs which left me with no means of chain adjustment so
after much scratching of the head and balls i came up with an eccentric
adaptor which involved cutting the axle down to 120mm so it finished 5mm
inside the frame. The adaptor provides some useful adjustment by
loosening the skewer and rotating the outer adaptor.