We’ve just got the NEW Enduro Zero Road BB & Pulleys in Black.
Black has been highly-requested by our customers since it’s frame-color neutral and less flashy than Red, Blue and Gold.
The Bottom Bracket works with Shimano or SRAM compatible cranks.
The price for the Black edition is the same as the Red, Blue and Gold Enduro Zero BB & Pulleys. $159 for the BB, $79 for the pulley set or $238 for the BB and pulley purchased together.
Ride On….
Yesterday we sat down with Stephen Hackett to chat with him about his recent podium finish at Boulder 70.3 Ironman race …
SF: You just came in 3rd at the Boulder 70.3 race, there was an extremely competitive field. What did you think as you got off the bike and was in 1st place?
SH: After the swim I was about a minute behind Andy Potts and it took me to mile 10 to catch him on the bike. I was feeling very good on the bike but I probably went out a little too hard. My riding has picked up quite a bit since the Boulder Peak thanks to Crowie adjusting my training. Anyway, when I got off the bike I was 1st and I realized Andy was just behind me. My goal was to not let him get too far out of sight. Half way through the run he had 50 seconds to a minute on me. I would have been happy with that but I started to fade around mile 8. There was nothing I could do, I started to cram in every aid station - cola, gel, water but it was too late. I gotta get the nutrition in on the bike. I only got through 1/2 a bottle on the bike. I left everything too late. I just had to hang on and finish the race.
SF: How did you initially get interested in triathlons?
SH: My older sister Nicole - she entered her first triathlon at 14 and turned pro at age 15. She would get me out of school to train with her. I wasn’t serious until 2004. Loretta Harrop came to Boulder in 2004 to train for the Olympics and asked if I wanted to come and train with her. That was the first year I trained seriously. Loretta Harrop got me hooked into the American style races.
Hackett on the Jamis decked out with Enduro
SF: You’ve been named as one of the most promising up & coming triathletes. What is your end goal?
SH: To see how well I can push myself and what I can get out of the sport and also get a world-title to my name. That would be nice. In the last couple years, I’ve become more interested in the Ironman distance since my training partner, Crowie, has stepped up to this distance. So that’s on my mind, to go to Kona.
SF: Most top-tier triathletes train year-round. Many people don’t know that during the off-season you are construction builder. How do you feel this affects your racing performance?
SH: Ah- I find that in the summer I have to hold back a bit because I get injuries. If I have time to have gym work and get my body stronger I could improve a lot. I am always fighting from behind. I come to Boulder in April and take 3-4 weeks trying to get fit and everybody is already fit and racing by February-March. It’s frustrating for me because I know where I have to be and should be but now I just have to do what I can to make ends meet.
SF: Many people who read this are cyclists - tell us about your bike.
SH: I ride a Jamis T2 time-trial bike. It’s decked out with Shimano Di2 electronic shifting and Shimano Pro wheels with Enduro Zero ceramic bearings in the wheels, pulleys, and bottom bracket.
SF: Thanks Stephen for chatting with us. Fly Fast in your next race.
Since we started working with Crowie these last couple of months, we’ve made some changes to his bike. All to help him become more aero …. with the goal to shave minutes off his time. In his last race, Boise, he won by only 10 seconds. As all us cyclists know, seconds count.
With this in mind, we tricked out his time-trial Orbea. One of the things was internal Di2 cables. The Orbea doesn’t come set up for this so a considerable amount of drilling and soldering was required. Here are some pic’s of the process.
Attaching the cables
James Huang, tech editor at Cycling News, stopped by at the Enduro booth during Sea Otter. Here’s the link to his blurb on the new Enduro ceramic bearings coming out this summer.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/more-tech-tidbits-from-the-sea-otter-classic/118179
This year at Sea Otter we camped out at the Enduro Booth. Thanks for all who stopped by. We were swamped every day. Lots of cyclists took the ‘Enduro challenge’ and pushed an XTR crank with Shimano steel bearings compared to a a crank with Enduro Zero bearings. The typical response was, “Whoa- this is cheating.” Yeah, we think so too - that’s why we ride Enduro bearings.
We also showcased the new XD-15 bearings Enduro will be coming out with soon. These are in prototype right now and will be in production shortly. More details coming…. they are the bomb.
Here are some pic’s from Sea Otter.
we especially like his ‘deep thought’ for today 
We will be attending Sea otter from April 15-18. We will be working at the Enduro booth. We will have products for sale and we will be doing installations so bring your bike. We also have some exciting new products that we are debuting at Sea Otter so check us out.
Rotor’s Q-Rings are the latest attempt at an elliptical chainring. A question not addressed on Rotor’s website is if the chain length needs to be longer or shorter because of the unique nature of the Q-Ring? The Answer is: No! Size the new chain the same way you would as if the chainring were a traditional shape. No extra links needed!
Back in November, we wrote a blog post highlighting how Enduro Bearings were used in a Hydrogen Race car being built by Los Altos Engineering Academy. We had lots of cyclists mention how cool this project was. We just got another update from the gang - in the words of one of the students - Alex Sosa. Their goal is to race the car in the Shell-Eco Marathon in Texas….For those of you who would like to contribute $ to help their goal, their contact information is at the end of this post.
“We tested out the Enduro bearings from Superfly Cycles, and the results astonished all of us at the academy. We got a bicycle wheel and rim together, added a sprocket, welded a 10-inch outer diameter cast iron pulley to the sprocket (as an adapter) and of course, added the bearings and we got our drive wheel for our car. The test was to see how long it would keep on spinning when it is not attached to the car. I spun the wheel with medium force and the wheel kept on spinning for more than a minute without any added force. The suspense was so great that someone in the background said (as a joke), “This might take awhile, I bet yah that if eat lunch, the wheel would still be spinning when I am done”. The wheel kept on spinning for a record of 85 seconds with a pulley that weighed somewhere around 25 pounds and was unbalanced. We are working on a Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Prototype Car (HICE), which weighs 280 pounds and is going to roll on three bicycle wheels, and the three bearings had made a huge difference in performance. The bearings are crucial because the car has to roll with minimal effort so we can get high mileage.
The competition we are trying to enter in this year is the Shell-Eco marathon, which is a race for the highest mileage with the least amount of fuel consumed. We are in need of $15,000 by February 19, 2010 so we can go to Shell-Eco Marathon in Texas, so we need financial help/donations whether it is $100 or even $5, every little bit helps. Cash is okay and checks must be made payable to “LAAE Boosters”. Our website is www.lasv.org; phone numbers is (626)330-1096; and feel free to call us for a brochure, tour, or any questions. Our address is 15325 East Los Robles Avenue, Hacienda Heights, CA 91745. Thank you and thank Enduro for creating such a super bearing.”
Here’s the link from the review by Matt Pacocha on Bike Radar (we noticed that Matt moved from VeloNews to Bike Radar)…
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/first-look-rotor-3d-mountain-bike-cranks-24677
