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No pics of the frameset yet, but these are the wheels that the bike will be shod with
INTRODUCING:
HED Stalingrad Wheel
Only $999.95!
Steve Hed hand casts each wheel from extra virgin Minnesota taconite. The new HED Stalingrad. The world?s first cast iron wheel. Light doesn?t always mean right.
Ever wish you could soar down a mountain like Paolo (Il Falco) Salvodelli?
Are your descents as slow as Beloki?s and equally as frightful ?
Well fear not. Adhering to his philosophy of ?optimal wheel choice tailored for the factors inherent to each particular race?, Steve Hed has once again forged ahead in developing a revolutionary new approach to wheel design hand casting each wheel from extra virgin Minnesota taconite.
In tribute to the Red Army - whose brave few (1.7 million) surrounded and steamrolled the frozen remnants of the invading German 6th Army at Stalingrad - and, in keeping with the success of our Bastogne wheel - we proudly offer the ultimate descent wheel.
With a weight just under 47 pounds, you too will be able to descend like a Russian submarine. And when riders hear you rumble up behind them - demanding their surrender - you?ll surely hear them mutter to each other ?... get the hell out of the way, this guy is nuts...!?
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From: "Hormann, Douglas J."
> CSC announces that they will debut their new "descending specific"
> bicycle in the 2006 season. Jens Voigt was seen test riding the bike
> prior to a stage at this year's Tour of California, but was keeping mum
> about the new ride while the team works out the bugs of UCI approval.
>
> Said to be outfitted with custom drawn depleted uranium tubing to
> provide what CSC DS Bjarne Riis calls, "that little extra bit of road
> holding weight" Riis said that Ivan and some of the other team members
> had been asking for something to help them maintain their advantage on
> the descents after they crest the cols. Riis acknowledged that a new
> one-ton truck has been purchased to haul the bikes to the top of climbs
> so as to be waiting for their riders.
>
> Bjarne went on to say that they had hoped to keep their new bikes secret
> until the Tour, however word finally leaked out after several Pyrenees
> goat herders complained to the local gendarmes that their flocks were
> being spooked by lycra clad cyclists yee-hawing down the mountains at
> breakneck speeds.
>
> Doug
>
>
> >
> >Did you all see the picture of Jens Voigt riding a big green chopper in
> >velonews.com?
> >
> >
> >Evan
> >
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> >----------(_)/ (_)______Get on your bikes and ride!
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