New Seatpost & S-WORKS Toupé Saddle

If I'm honest, I bought the 3T Ionic seatpost for looks.  In my defense, the Stylus seatpost, that 3T also offers, is hideous.  I mean "slap a baby" ugly.  This is going to be a form vs function story.

Impressions Of All The Stuff I Changed On The R5

With the exception of the S-WORKS saddle, the bike is completely built and I've been out on it enough times to get an idea of how all the new bits feel.  I will start with the bike is shockingly light.  15lb bikes feel a lot lighter than the difference between a 16lb and 17lb bike.  The difference between a 14lb and 15lb bike is even greater.  Even with the Garmin and a full 20oz bottle, it feel silly light when you pick it up.  The universal response is just smiles and head shaking.

I Finely Built My Wheels

It took five months, but I finally have my Enve 3.4s built.  They're very boring in their black on black colour scheme, but they are still beautiful.  One of the sixteen year old kids in the shop nearly had his head explode when I let him touch them.  He plunked down money for a set of his own before I left.

Well, This Season Has Gone To Hell

My initial lack of riding out of shapeness has now devolved into me having no energy (feels like I have mono, which you can't get twice) and my knee problems have come back.  It has really discouraged me from riding.  So much so, that I haven't even finished building my road bike.  It's all a bit of a downer.  So, to cheer everyone up, I'm going to give my short review of Dura-Ace 9000 mechanical.

Reviews

Since I work at a shop and get to play with a lot of nice toys, I thought I would start sharing my impressions in the form of reviews.  Some reviews will be just quick "Hey, I got to play with this, and this is what I think."  Other reviews will be a bit more long term.  These will most likely be items I buy for myself and rate after using them for a few months.  Since I'm not getting paid to do these reviews, I'm going to be honest about them.  My "honesty" can sometimes sound like I'm trashing a product, so I'm going to try and just point out my experience with the product and the pros and cons of it.  I'm going to use a 5 star rating system, because I like 5 star rating systems.  If you have any feedback on either the products or my review of them, please feel free to leave a comment.  I love hearing other people's feed back, especially if it differs from mine.  Just don't be a cunt about it.