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2004 54cm Specialized Allez Pro frame and full carbon fork.
Frame is the exact same as the S-Works E5 frames that year, its component mix was less expensive, which is why it was branded Allez.
Fork is also the same as used in the S-Works lineup - however this one is BRAND NEW. Steerer tube is uncut and expander plug is included.
Also included is a new Specialized OS road stem. It has the flip-flop internals so you can adjust the angles in 2 degree increments from -8 to +16.
The pictured seatpost is not included in the asking price but you can make an offer if you're interested.

Geometry - Effective TT 548mm, 73.5 degree STA, 140mm HT length. see specialized.com for more details.

The frame is in Excellent condition. Cosmetically, there are very few blemishes - minimal wear to the paint on the drive-side chainstay, a 3M protector strip was always used. Some small scratches to the seattube where the front derailleur cable rubbed a bit. A small paint chip on the drive-side barrel adjuster near the headtube. The paint on the headtube was protected by the clear stickers.

Weight - 1960g including: stem, headset, bottle cage bolts, seatpost clamp, uncut steerer tube.

Post a comment if you are interested.

Panbeh

Panbeh enjoying his summer haircut. He's our minature Lion.

Cherry Creek Sneak

Here are some pics from the Cherry Creek Sneak that Cori and Blenda ran in a few weeks ago.

Coal Miner's Classic

No redemption was to be had. Legs felt crappy and I got spit after 4 laps. Another DNF. Shit! I think I'm in need of some recovery.

North Boulder Park Crit

Not much to report. Just mad at myself. Goofed around all day at the house doing laundry, running errands, then proceeded to show up late to the race. I only got in about 15 min of warm-up before the start. I knew this race would be extremely hard and fast at the start, and probably need a good 45 min warm-up. Not that it mattered, I couldn't get clicked in so I was about 30 deep going into the first turn. Ugh! A big DNF for me. first one in a long time. I wish I had some better excuses, but no one to blame by myself. I'll be looking for redemption tomorrow.

Marty had a great ride finishing 6th. Way to go Brah.

Henk

I watched Henk Vogels in the WOT crit last weekend, then remembered the last time I saw him. I took this last year during a sprint stage of the Giro into Forli. Henk had got caught behind crash in the last 1km and casually rode it in. McEwen took the win. Wow, can't believe it has already been a year. Cori and I are ready to go back. More from our trip here and here.

WOT Pictures

Check out Jared's picture blog for some pics of WOT Cat 3s

Tulsa Tough Anyone?

I made the descion to do the Tulsa Tough instead of City Park and the State TT the first weekend of June. I just wasn't that excited to do the TT, and I've done City Park before, and while it is a cool course, there is always a couple of crashes. The opportunity to do 3 crits on new courses, against new competion won me over. I'll be traveling/staying with Jon Baker, but racing solo, so if you know any other 3s from Colorado going, let me know. Maybe we could work out a game plan for the races as a Colorado Contingent.

Flights on Frontier right now are ~$222 round trip. Cheaper than what I would spend in gas if I drove. Crazy.

CCTT #6

My homie, Wind, failed to show last night. I was left by myself to battle the course alone. I felt good and the course was fairly fast. I turned a time of 24:05. I was shooting for sub 24, but just didn't get there. Maybe a 1500 dollar disc zipp would have saved me 5 seconds, but who knows. I'm still really happy with the effort. I finally broke the top 10 with 9th place. I was only ~50 seconds off the winner, which was an improvement, because I'm normally ~2 min. One TT left next week.

Wheels of Thunder

Had a large contingent of VC on hand. Brent, Marty, Jayson, Lance, and Jared. I had 2 game plans, try to win some primes, or wait for the finish sprint and hunt some upgrade points. I accomplished neither, but felt I had a great race. Instead, I got bored, and chased down several breaks, and was in a couple others. Coming into the last half a lap, I was sitting about 15th on the top part of the course, and saw Brent and Teno top 5. I knew Brent had been sitting in most of the race, so would be fresh for the sprint so I went to the front to group with them. Their was a JDS rider off the front a couple seconds, and no one wanted to chase. We were still to far out for a lead out, but were starting to get swarmed on both sides, so I decided, now or never. Put my head down with Brent and Teno on my wheel, and got us to the last corner. A guy started his sprint about 600m out (WTF) and came around me. I couldn't match the acceleration at that point, so I swung out letting Brent come through, then swung back in. Brent followed some wheels and finished 5th. I held on for 10th. Teno 16th, Marty 18th, Lance 21st. Jared got caught behind the pile-up on the last lap. I was very happy with 10th since I basically led out the whole field for the sprint, I just didn't have any pop left to sprint. I'm glad everyone finished safely.

While we did have a lot of VC guys in the field today, and several where aggressive trying to get off the front, or chasing things down, I think we could have made the race a lot harder and worked on our organization as a team. I think if we have all 6 of us again, we are strong enough as a team to break it up, but that may mean sacrificing individual results. I would take a win for the team anyday, over a top 10 for myself. Hopefully we can put something together for this weekend.

CCTT #5

I was "supper pumped" (man trip joke) about the race yesterday. It was great weather all day and little to no wind. My goal was to break 24 min. I rolled to the start ~7pm, just as this big ominous black cloud started to roll in. I thought it would hold off for at least another 25 min as it didn't seem to be moving that fast. Anyway I started, easing in to the effort for the first couple of minutes. I felt fairly good, then right before the turnaround, the wind reared it's ugly head. The brunt of it hit me past the Forrest section, with a massive 20+mph head/cross wind the last ~3 miles of the race. I hadn't left a whole lot in the tank, thinking I would have little wind the whole race, and I wanted to keep my effort steady most of the race. I went from turning over a 53x11-13 most of the race to 53x21 into the headwind, which also coincided with the small rises in the course on the way back. I also got rained on the last 4 min of the race. What a way to finish. I was pretty pissed when I got back about a situation I couldn't do anything about. Ty was waiting for me inside Tim's truck trying to stay dry, and his assessment of the race was about the same as mine.
Anyway, I turned a time of 24:42 good enough for 11th place.
Got leap frogged by several guys that had early start times. Looks like most times for the early guys were ~1 min faster, were mine was ~ 30 sec. Only thing to compare was that the rider that takes off 40 sec in front of me is also Cat 3, and we had basically the exact same conditions. He has been consistently 5th or 6th every week about a minute faster than me, but this week he only got me by 6 seconds. He probably had a bad week, but I'm gonna tell myself that I'm just getting faster.

To my friend:

Wind,

We've had a close relationship over the past month. Just when I thought you had left me, there you were today. Glad I wasn't alone for the last 4 miles of the CCTT. Thanks for showing the love. I mean it. Look forward to seeing you next week as well.

Your bud,

Casey

Rocky Mounts Crit

Rocky Mounts Crit - One of the best things about upgrading to a 3 has been the later start times. No more getting up at 6am. However, yesterday the later time, meant racing in the rain for an hour. It started coming down right before our 4:30 pm start. About midday I was searching for motivation to race as it looked like it was going to rain, then I remembered what Brent told me after Lincoln. "Dugan, from now on you like racing in the rain. It's one of your advantages." With that in mind I made the trip to louisville. Brent and Marty also joined me. I also wanted to at least finish this crit, the previous 2 times I had done it, I got dropped. This course was actually my first crit ever 3 years ago. I had moved from STL, my goal was a top 20, which I thought wouldn't be to hard considering I was finishing in the top half of sport MTB races bact in STL. I held on for about 1 lap in the 4s, and remember thinking what did I get myself into. Now I can laugh, but that was my first CO racing experience. Anyway, yesterday I just tried to stay up front and wide on the corners so I didn't have to brake. Game time descion had me swith to my training wheels from my zipps, which probably saved my hiney more that once during the race. Zipps don't brake worth a shit in the rain, even with the new zero gravity brakes. I had one guy ask me with about 15 mins left if I wanted to give it a go, to which I replied, "not really". Reason being they were chasing pretty well everything down, or so I thought. He attacked on the uphill and was quickly brought back. With three laps to go Brent, Marty, and I all moved up to the front. 2 guys went on the hill, opening up a gap, then another 2 Denver Spoke guys. I jumped on their wheel, and I think Marty was on mine. I opened up a gap from those guys, not wanting to chase that early, so Marty jumped to bridge and I opened up a gap to get them off the front. Then Collins and another guy came around to start the chase towards the finish, so I just sat on their wheels. My plan was to counter as soon as they caught Marty, but he was holding strong off the front, trying to catch the Denver Spoke guys. I was just following Collins wheel, so when he started, so did I. We caught Marty about 50m before the finish. I tried to come around Collins, I got about half way and clicked for another gear, and got nothing. I had being missing a shift the last half the race, and I guess I was in the lucky gear again. Afterwards Collins said he saw me trying to sneak past him. I'll get him next time :) I was happy with my performance, until I found out 2 guys attacked 1st lap and lapped the field. How did we all miss this? Then apparently 2 more guys got off the front and held on, So what I thought was a top 5 turned out to be 8th. Marty held on for 9th as well. Looking back I should have probably closed that gap to the Denver Spoke guys, so that when Marty attacked, they wouldn't have been off the front. I never thought they would hold it to the end. Oh well.

B-Day

I turned 29 yesterday. Wow. Can't say I'm all that pumped that I'll be 30 next year, but there's not really anything I can do about it. Cori, Ty, Jen, and I hit up Sushi Tazu last night. The Volocano Roll is the bomb. I had a few Sapporos, and some Chocolate Devotion from Cold Stone Creamery. Even my bro remembered to call me. "Happy Birthday Fagwad!, your gift is in the mail, yeah right." That was the message he left. If you know him, that wouldn't suprise you.

CCTT #4

Wind was the flavor of the day, again. 20-25 mph. I felt decent going in considering, I was feeling pretty shattered Monday after a hard weekend. A massage from Nicole at Eden II set me straight. Blew the cobwebs out Tuesday on the trainer, and was looking forward to Wednesday. My goal was to just go faster than the week before, and break the top 10. I turned in a time of 25:17:89 good for 10th place, again. So I was faster than 2 weeks ago in the wind, but still didn't break the top 10. I've finished behind Curtis Leschyshyn 3 times now. This week he got me by 15 seconds. I'll get him before it is over. Now I've got some motivation. The winner turned in a time of 23:05, that's just stupid.
I still don't have a rear disc, so If I ever decide to get one, that will hopefully get me a few more seconds. In the past I never liked TTing, but it has definately growning on me.

This weekend is the Lookout HC and Rocky Mounts Crit. I'm planning to leave Lookout to the skinny butts, and get in a long training day, then rally for the crit.

Sunday

Yesterday got up and went and watched Cori run the 5K at the Cherry Creek Sneak. I've tried to get her into cycling, but she likes the running thing right now. It's been cool to watch her change from a goofy looking runner to someone who knows what they are doing. I glad she is doing something healty. She placed 52nd/222 in her category, and I know she was taking easy.

After the 5K I picked up Gunz and we headed to Boulder to meet Brent and Jayson. We did the Boulder-Old Stage-Left Hand-Ward-P2P-Raymond-Lyons-Hygeine-Boulder Loop. 75 miles (4.5 hours) It was great weather, beautiful scenery, and good company. I totally bonked about 10 miles from Boulder, even though I ate/drank a ton during the ride. Guess I was pretty wiped from Deer Trail. It was good to get a long ride it with friends.

Later that afternoon, Cori and I treated ourselves to hot wings, beers, and a burger from the Cherry Cricket. Yum!

Deer Trail RR

Deer Trail (74 miles) - My goal was to get in the early break, so Brent, Marty and Lance could sit in. The race was active from the start. First move went about 6 miles in, with a group of 4. I tried to bridge, but the pack wouldn't let me go, so I helped bring the group back. As soon as we caught them there was a solo counter, then a minute later, another solo move to bridge. At this point, I was recovering, and had drifted back 10 places. We hit the turnaround, and another group of 6 got off, including Brent. This move should have stuck. All the large teams were represented except for 2, and most of the teams at the front were blocking for teamates up the road making it difficult to form a chase. I was hanging about 15th in the pack keeping an eye on things. At this point several guys started blowing the yellow line, moving up 30 spaces, or trying to bridge to the break. This happened repeatedly over the next 40 miles. These were such bullshit moves. The whole pack was calling the dudes out, but they kept doing it. The moto ref was with the break, so he was no help.

Brent said there were 2 guys in the break of 8 that wouldn't work, and after repeated attempts of trying to drop them, the break was brought back. When I saw
they were going to get caught, I moved up to ~7th place waiting for the counter, but as we caught them a handful of guys flew the yellow line again, and I got boxed in behind the guys getting caught from the break. So another group of 6 got off, but were quickly reeled back with some help from Lance who had moved up. At this point I was sitting about 20th, but wasn't too worried, as Lance was now covering moves.
We then went through town, getting ready for the last 25 miles of rollers, and Lance flatted right before the first roller and feed zone. Brent was sitting in recovering from the break, and Marty was somewhere behind me. Of course a group of 5 got off through the feedzone and we weren't represented. The last 25 miles are lot of huge rollers, so if we let them have a minute or two, it could be hard to get them back. I then saw Marty who said he was feeling good, and moved up to Brent to see how he was. He said he had recovered and was feelin good as well, so I decided I would go to the front and help work to bring the break back, while they sat in. I went to the front helped push the pace over the next 12 miles. We ended up catching the break right before the 2nd to last turnaround, leaving 12 miles. At this point I thought the race would start to split up so I stayed very close to the front covering any late moves. We made it to the last turnaround, and I was starting to feel pretty worked, and it looked like it was going to stay together till right before the finish so I drifted to the back to recover. There ~40 left in the main pack. From the previous 2 times I had done this race, the group splits up on the last two rollers leaving plenty of time to move up once the road opened up, so I
decided to wait for that. However this time 4 guys blocked the front, not allwoing anyone to get around and held the pack together until the last 200m, when guys started crossing the yellow line (again). At this point I was still on the back, and lost my nerve to even try to pick some guys off in a 40+ bunch sprint, so I just tailed in on the back of the group safe and sound. Marty got 13th, Brent got boxed in from yellow line passer for 21st, and I rolled in 36th.

I was happy with my performance, as I was active all day, and did a lot of work for the team.

I was frustrated with how the race turned out, especially with all the yellow line crossings. I was working hard to move up, and maintain my position with 86 guys, when they would just take a flyer to the left passing 30 guys. As a team I thought we did fairly well with only 4 guys considering there were 5 teams that had 6+. I thought with that many large teams a break would get away, or the last 12-15 miles would be hard enough to split it up. I never thought we would roll all the way to the finish with 40+. I guess if I wanted to shoot for a top 10, I should have just sat in all day, but what is the fun in that? I always want to get a good result, but lost my nerve at the end, and didn't want to take the risk sprinting on the
narrow roads. ugh! what a frustrating race.

CCTT #3 4.25.07

I finished 10th/25 in the TT last night. They
shortened the course considerably due to flooding.
Therefore we had the short but steep climb about 1.2
km into the race, and they added a 1km 3-5% climb
towards the end. I went out too hard, not knowing how
to pace my self since the effort was going to be
short. With it being short I wasn't able to settle
in. I was cooked by the time I saw the 1 km to go
sign. Couldn't get out of my 13 at that point, but
was able to hold on for 10th at 14:50, 23 seconds off
top 5. Still a pretty good time compared to everyone
else.

Purple Posse

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from Marty's Blog

Lincoln Plating Spring Cycling Classic 07

Teton, Scott, Ross, Marty, Brent and I made the 7hr trip to Lincoln for the LPSCC last weekend.

TT - Saturday morning. 12 mile loop around a lake, with lots of rollers. We had wind also 30+ mph. We got in late friday night so didn't get to preview the course, just took advice from my teamates who had done it before. Also didn't get any sleep after having to call the front desk on the college frat party in the room next door. Cops finally escorted everyone out of hotel room at 2am. I was slightly pissed and took it out in the TT coming in 7th/23 riders. I went hard, and felt good. I was pretty happy with my placing.

RR - Satuday afternoon same course as TT, more wind. It was unbelievable. They shortened the course by 24 miles b/c of it. I actually took my zipp 404 off the front and rode my training wheel, to help with stability. Ran our race with the Masters so the field was 60+, which sucked when they were chasing down 3s trying to start a break, WTF. I got guttered and dropped on the first crosswind
section of the 2nd lap, and chased back on with a group of 7. I then got dropped on the last crosswind section at the end of the 2nd lap. I then chased for half a lap with 2 other guys and got back on again. At this point I figured I would get dropped again in the crosswind section, so I went to the front of the pack to give Marty some shelter. Once we hit the crosswind, I picked up the pace strung the pack out, and popped. I did spring Marty and Brent in a group of 8 with the move, but they got reeled back in the next couple of miles. I then rode the last lap solo, losing 8 min on GC dropping me to 17th/23 in my cat. I couldn't handle the accelerations in the crosswind when the pack was strung out, and I was already at threshold. I was fine riding at threshold, but when I had to go over repeatedly to close gaps, I couldn't recover at LT. Brent took 2nd and Marty 9th on the stage.

Sunday - 2 mile circuit race with a couple false flats and a 800m long climb that was substantial going to the finish. Since I didn't know how I would react, we
decided that I would try a move early and Marty sitting 6th on GC would counter or try later depending on how he felt. Brent was is a sprinter, and hewas going to sit in for the sprint. On the 3rd/8 laps I countered a move on a false flat section. I got about 10 seconds, and spent a lap off the front until they brought it back. Once I was caught another move went with 2 guys, that was quickly brought back, and then a counter move that got about 30 seconds. I recovered during the next 1/2 lap, then tried to bridge solo going on the climb. I got within about 10 seconds of the leader, and stayed that way for then next 2 laps, with the pack chasing about 20
seconds behind me. I got swallowed up on the last climb about 200 meters from the finish. The guy 10 seconds ahead, held on for the win. I was close, but didn't have any power left going up the last climb and got caught quick. Brent and Marty rolled through 9th and 11th. I felt a lot better during the crit, and was happy with my effort and experience I gained. It also rained and hailed during our race which made it very interesting.

My result in the TT/ciruit race, really has me puzzled as to why I couldn't hang on in the RR. Must just be that I haven't got the V02 max training in yet.

Overall the weekend was great, the race was well run with fun courses, and the prize money was good. Mad Props to John Lefler Jr. who was the promoter. I definately want to go back next year.