Lance Armstrong's new bike

[HuckleB]

Armstrong's new bike

http://www.velonews.com/tech/report/articles/8177.0.html

"Lance Armstrong unveiled a new time trial bike this week at the Dauphiné Libéré that he hopes will catapult him to a seventh Tour de France crown.

Following its track record of developing new technology in time for Armstrong's annual summer Tour assault, Trek rolled out the new "TTX" time trial frame utilizing a cutting-edge software design program used to develop Ferrari racing cars and sail boats.

"We turned six months of development into five weeks," said Trek's Scott Daubert, adding the project didn't get the green light until right after the Tour de Georgia in April. "We delivered them a week ago today. It was literally still warm when we put them in the box."

Although the 2005 Tour could well be decided in the monster 55km final time trial in St. Etienne, Daubert insisted the new design comes out of the intuitive desire to be better and faster in what will be Armstrong's Tour finale.

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[acmejack]

1. I wonder what one of those babies would run you?

nt

[jakefrep]

3. If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it...

..just the standard bikes used by these guys can set you back $4000. Time trial bikes are probably much more than that.

[kedrys]

2. So *that's* what they've been working on at Area 51!

That thing is reverse-engineered from alien technology, fer shure! :D