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About Christopher Fahey
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After 20+ years of riding the same old bike (my still-beloved Coumbus-steel 1989 Olmo), I finally got serious and upgraded to a lean, mean, carbon fiber, custom-fit, cutting-edge, ass-kicking racing bike.
The frame is a Parlee Z5, a ultralight full-carbon number from a great little up-and-coming operation in Massachusetts. The gruppo is all Campagnolo Chorus 11-speed. I bought the bike from the excellent folks at Signature Cycles in Manhattan, who provided me with just about the best service I could possibly expect from a bike shop, including the most comprehensive bike fitting I have ever seen.
You might notice that there are no graphics or logos on this bike. When I was shopping for my new wheels, it quickly became clear that at least 80% of the bikes on the market would be impossible for me to ride simply because of their unspeakably hideous graphics, their gratuitous sculptural flourishes, or their hamfisted, testosterone-addled, NASCAR-inspired typography. Even the perfect bike at the perfect price would be, to my aesthetically snobby tastes, unrideable if the graphics looked anything like what most bike makers are hawking today. I knew that I was either going to miraculously encounter a bike manufacturer with exquisite taste, or I’d have to have my bike custom painted.
In the end, I chose both in the Parlee Z5. Parlee’s entire line of bikes are sculpturally elegant, even classic, yet entirely modern in fabrication and materials. While the Z5 frame, like all Parlee’s road bikes, lacks the thin lines and graceful horizontal top-tube of a classic steel frame, it also lacks the creepy faux-aerodynamics and gaudy appendages that many carbon frames seem to come with nowadays.
As a typography snob, I wasn’t entirely crazy about Parlee’s own logo, but fortunately Parlee specializes in offering custom paint schemes to their customers, no matter how idiosyncratic. So I knew that, at the very least, I would be able to manage the Ferrari factory red from my trusty Italian frame. As for graphics, I was torn: After experimenting in Photoshop with a few sketch typographic treatments to give the frame a kind of retro, 1960s steel frame look, I ended up following my own advice and omitted the logos and graphics entirely, leaving only a simple, solid red frame (if you can even call Ferrari Rosso Corsa "simple") with two tiny company decals around the bottom bracket area, like footnotes.
I’ve had the bike for about a week now, and have put in about 150 miles in the saddle. As much as I hate to say this, because god knows I’ve spent the last 20 years self-righteously cursing at 40-year-old dudes with bikes that cost thousands more than my aging steed, there is no doubt whatsoever that I am faster on this bike. Like 5%-10% faster. It’s astonishing how fast this thing accelerates, how easy it climbs hills.
by Christopher Fahey June 6th, 2010 | 8:23 pmlovely bike Chris!
by Riaz June 7th, 2010 | 10:53 pmSweet ride!
by Lachlan Hardy June 8th, 2010 | 6:23 amNice. Red bikes are faster!
by Eloy June 9th, 2010 | 4:34 amSweet ride - I just built up a bike with Chorus 11 and love it. The owner of the where I built it up rides a Z4.
by Jeff June 12th, 2010 | 1:27 pm