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TECH NEWS
Lance's ParleeLance Armstrong tweets about his new bike… and it's not a Trek
Having been associated closely with Trek during his racing career, Lance Armstrong has tweeted that he now has a new Parlee Z-Zero road bike.
Lance said, “Down @mellowjohnnys building up my new @parlee_z1. What a beauty!! Right at 15 lbs.”
Mellow Johnny’s is a bike store in Austin, Texas, owned by Armstrong. The name comes from maillot jaune – French for ‘yellow jersey’.
Mellow Johnny's is a Trek dealership. Whereas usually Trek might not be too pleased with an ex-pro and current dealer showing off a bike other than a Trek, in this case they're probably fairly relaxed about the situation.
The Parlee race bike brand was established by Bob Parlee in Massachusetts about a decade ago.
The Z-Zero is custom-made to order in 16 semi-custom sizes, or in a full-custom geometry. Parlee say that they can tune the ride characteristics to each rider's exact requirements.
Armstrong has gone for a Shimano Dura-Ace 9070 groupset here. Previously, he had a contract with SRAM but the US component brand terminated it last year in the light of revelations about Armstrong’s doping during his race career – you might have heard about that!
Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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And Parlee has a cult following in the US - said to the best carbon maker on that side of the pond ... what do i know? I only abuse my ti brides ...
Interestingly Lance has chosen the Z1 not the Z-Zero, I suspect a good choice.
No, it's a Z-Zero - Z1 is just part of the Twitter name he has mentioned.
Sorry Z1 it is. The devil is in the detail.
Should I care?
Give the guy a break and move on!!!! old news new times still one of the most charismatic riders ever to watch, doped or not, I just can't understand why the likes of Miller get left alone.
Look back and everybody was on the gear all the greats!
Careful. I once dared to make a similar point on this forum amidst all the schadenfreude and was comprehensively shot down.
You don't want the Lance-hating mob to turn their sights on you!
i still say he's a suicide watch
Its a little sad i made it to the bottom....
Where's the downtube shifter for the chainrings?
Nice choice going with the Shimano Dura-Ace 9070. Nice to have that option.
This is why they posted this story - 50 odd comments in a few hours on a story which is otherwise of no consequence.
Anything about LA is going to cause a reaction and controversy and road cc know this as much as anyone!
Lance fan for Life!!! I'm going straight out and buying two Parlee's! (if I have to sell my child and whore out my wife...!)
I've boycotted Trek & ShimaNO for 8+ years since I felt he was too good to be true
So therefore I'm thinking of selling my my three Parlee's after reading this...... then again they are sublime, and I'd have to change my forum name. Nah best ride them
Actually I do already have a Z5 for sale (£1400) which looks a lot like the finish on the one the texanscum has bleatweeted.
It's taken him 41 years to realise there are better bikes than a Trek out there.
Interesting bike. I thought it was metal at a first glance. The joins don't have the large radius typical of carbon. How do they keep them strong enough? If all carbon bikes looked like this, I might buy one. (Not this one obviously, as it is tainted by association with "The evil one"...)
That's a nice looking bike.
I thought he was banned from riding a bike? Why would he buy a new one?
I don't think we've said he's a hero Paul, we've just said he's been tweeting about his new bike. We found his choice quite interesting.
Sorry. Didn't mean to imply you considered him a hero should have been something like "why treat him as someone who still has any relevance to cycling in any positive way". I probably had my tuppence worth and more so I promise I will now shut up on the subject.
Nope, not that either.
1. What is there in the article that makes you think we're treating him as someone who still has any relevance to cycling in a positive way? A quote, perhaps, or a reference?
2. Why would we, as a news-based website, confine our news to people who have a relevance to cycling in a positive way?
Lance Armstrong has tweeted about a new bike that's a) Not a Trek. b) Not fitted with SRAM. It's news, especially in the light of his relationships with sponsors as a result of the USADA report and the fallout from that.
We're not in the business of restricting our news to cover only people whose actions we approve of. Sorry.
Looks like he might have chosen a Specialized(?) helmet too http://instagram.com/p/Z0uVI6QDCY/
Actually, Tom Rodi of Parlee has just issued a tweet with a link to this very article:
https://twitter.com/parlee_z1/status/339403554534072322
I think he's pretty happy with the publicity.
(PS - Hi Tom and all at Parlee - Nice bikes!)
I am annoyed with myself for reading this
and I'm really annoyed for making it this far down in the comments...it's like watching a car wreck, can't look away.
No kidding...
I was going to agree, but i'm actually finding it quite entertaining!
I'm no Lance fan but some of you guys really need to unwind a little before you do yourselves an injury!
Does twitter make you a famous cyclist? Of course not, there are 4 million people interested in hearing his views on Twitter.
4 million who have definitely heard of Lance Armstrong.
You mention Merckx or Lemond to the average person on the street and you'll probably get a blank look but they will know Armstrong.
If Lemond was on Oprah next week, would he attract more viewers than Lance's appearance? Not a chance, people all round the world tuned in to see Armstrong.
Don't confuse who you prefer with who is more famous.
I feel so sorry for Lance that all he can afford these days is a Parlee... Oh, wait! Grrrr.
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