Sale on Javelin complete bikes (Page 18)

Eric Sorrenson did my fitting out at Bonzai in Falls Church (www.tribonzai.com). My phone isn't next to me, or I would grab his number now. If I remember, I will PM it over to you.  The guys at Bonzai will have it for sure though.

http://www.javbike.com/News/2008_Closeout_Sale.pdf

Oh and new news...fiddled with more stuff on the Varese. After putting in air into the tires, it turns out I'm going to be running a lot less seat post than I thought. Scrappy, I don't know how you've gotten 3 inches on your 51, because I'm probably not doing much better on my 48. I guess my inseam is shorter than I thought.

I'm pretty sure this is going to throw out any chance of doing well on the Parma. I haven't gotten around to putting that together as much, but I doubt I'll bother.

That's cool, the first time that I have seen that flier too.

As for the component differences, it may have to do with supply as it dwindled. I know that the two Parmas that I bought for different people had Xenon/Mirage components, and I had seen posts in this thread (maybe around page 11/12?) that were talking about as inventory went near the bottom, Javelin was getting into the last of the gear, which may have been outfit differently.

Not defending it, just thinking that they may have had a few mostly-complete frames in the different types sitting around that they finished off as completes with components they had in the warehouse that differed from what that flier showed. 

Generally, the top tube on a tri bike is always going to be shorter for the same rider on a tri bike than on a road bike.  Anecdotally, seems about 2-3cm difference for people i know, depending on how you have the bike set up.  So you might actually be ok for the Parma.  Defintiely worth trying, anyway.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Time-trial-TT-JAVELIN-Tri-650-areo-bike-NR-NEW-PRICE_W0QQitemZ190220605716QQihZ009QQcategoryZ98084QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Anyone looking for a small Narni? Just found this over on the e-bay...

ChrisRunz - your picture is being used on eBay to sell Javelins.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Javelin-Sizzano-Triathlon-Tri-TT-Time-Trial-Bike_W0QQitemZ180242604818QQihZ008QQcategoryZ2918QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Oh crap....I'll contact them and get it removed. I don't know how this happened.

thanks for the heads up

Chris

My understanding is that they are getting ready to move and didn't want to move a lot of inventory. I had not heard that they were trying to get out the complete bike frame business.

The sales flyer from Javelin referenced above says basically the same thing: going from complete bikes to just high-end framesets.

My bad!!!

When I picked up my bike, Dave told me that they've been essentially out of the complete bike business for a while - that with only 2 guys running the business, it doesn't make any sense to sell $1000 complete bikes, when they can sell $10,000 custom frames. The math just doesn't compute. 

Ordered a Varese 61cm yesterday morning.  Dave mentioned a "couple" left.  I might be able to get it ready to race Buffalo, MN June 1st.  It's a calculated risk to buy the bike without a formal fitting, but I couldn't resist.  Dave was confident I could make it fit.  I'm hoping I don't have to play with stem length.

 Me: 6'6" 36" inseam, 215 lbs.  I'll re-post on the fit after it's assembled.

Nice, a string of first posts. :P I'm surprised they still have bikes left.

My 48cm Varese came out to be around 19.5 pounds sans pedals. Fairly respectable.

Sizing down isn't really the rule, but seems to be the case for the most part. Try and look through the thread to see how the bikes have fit others. All I can say is that if you're 5'5" or below, a 48cm is the way to go.

gotcha covered davhamm!

note the javelin bike sizes indicate seat tube length, NOT top tube length. ask Dave/Geoff for the corresponding top tube sizes for the bikes youe' interested in.