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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.
Latest Comments
- chrisonabike 2 sec ago
Does that Live And Let Die quote apply? "Just reach inside his mouth and pull out all his teeth!"
- mark1a 18 min 20 sec ago
I tried something similar with some timber and a pair of Delta hitches, with (unlike yourself) limited success, and so for people like myself with...
- chrisonabike 9 hours 43 min ago
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- David9694 10 hours 23 min ago
You and a friend have won first prize, a day out at Diddly Squat Farm.
- matthewn5 10 hours 30 min ago
Does not compute! If you ride a lot you're going to be boiling your chain every week or every fortnight.
- AidanR 10 hours 31 min ago
Let's hope it's another 4 years until she tweets again
- Andrewbanshee 10 hours 59 min ago
Tbf where I live 2 way roads look exactly like the one pictured.
- Rendel Harris 10 hours 57 min ago
Unless your formative cycling years were in the '80s and you grew up copying the hand either side of the stem position of greats like Lemond and...
- john_smith 11 hours 56 min ago
You're right--that was the other one. The relevance is that people keep complaining about how damaging the platform is, yet they carry on using it.
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i still say he's a suicide watch
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!
And road.cc duly obliged them.
Hope this backfires on Parlee
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!
Should I care?
© LANCE PHARMSTRONG
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.
Only 116K for Jens? I'd think it would be so much higher... i'm not doubting the numbers... but Jens is awesome!
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.
I do believe eddy was known to dabble ........
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