KLEIN q-pro

http://www.kleinbikes.com/us/road_bikes/q-pro/q-pro_v/index.html

And here is a color palette page with night storm.

http://www.treknology3.com/kleinbikes/palette.htm

roadmax said:

Anyone has a picture(s) of this bike model in "night storm" frame color or any other color.
Please post your pictures.

This is actually a Quantum Pro, in Jade... and it's MINE!

I'm interested in the new klein réve, with the adjustable suspension system... looks pretty slick. Anyone ridden one of these yet? Comments?

Well, can't pass up another opportunity to show my baby off, can I?

lokstah said:

Well, can't pass up another opportunity to show my baby off, can I?

Loky - your bike's paint job is in a class all its own. I'm still not convinced you ever ride it though. Has the "newness" worn off yet?

RC2 - I test rode the Reve at the Klein booth at the San Francisco Grand Prix. They had it set up on a trainer and the roller had a "bump" formed into it so you could see how the shock dampened out the bump. It actually seemed kind of silly to me, but if for some reason you're really concerned about feeling bumps it did seem to work. I just steer around the bumps or unweight the saddle as a last resort.

Check out the Klein Q-Pros on the Jittery Joe's team: www.thebeanteam.com
I also noticed that the Campagnolo neutral support car had Q-Pros on the roof.

DiabloScott said:

Loky - your bike's paint job is in a class all its own. I'm still not convinced you ever ride it though. Has the "newness" worn off yet?

Thanks for the thumbs up. Interestingly, I've managed to balance the best of worlds for now (call it cycling nirvana). I've made it my principle ride -- 4 out of 5 times I hit the road, it's on her -- but it still looks and feels new, thanks to obsessively overbearing care and attention.

Most of my friends both understand, and think I'm nuts. :o

lokstah said:

Thanks for the thumbs up. Interestingly, I've managed to balance the best of worlds for now (call it cycling nirvana). I've made it my principle ride -- 4 out of 5 times I hit the road, it's on her -- but it still looks and feels new, thanks to obsessively overbearing care and attention.

Most of my friends both understand, and think I'm nuts. :o

Of course!
Here's me kicking butt at the Napa Century a couple weeks ago on my (DA-9) Klein Quantum Pro!

DiabloScott said:

Of course!
Here's me kicking butt at the Napa Century a couple weeks ago on my (DA-9) Klein Quantum Pro!

Studly, studly. I'll be riding an unofficial century with some co-workers up there -- gotta love the Wine Country. Beautiful roads, great people, fantastic climbs, climbs, climbs; fantastic food and... well, wine, of course.

lokstah said:

Well, can't pass up another opportunity to show my baby off, can I?

What color and year is this. Does it have aluminium or carbon seat stays?

DiabloScott said:

It actually seemed kind of silly to me, but if for some reason you're really concerned about feeling bumps it did seem to work. I just steer around the bumps or unweight the saddle as a last resort.

DS, yeah, maybe it's silly. I've always been interested in Kleins since I dreamt, but couldn't come close to affording, an Attitude in the early 90's when MTB was my thing. The reve just seems like some cool tech, a stiff-as-hell bike that still feels great on mile 100. Is it a gimmic? Or is Klein once again doing something that will become commonplace? (I tend to respect their engineering and technical savvy, but hey, aren't they owned by the evil empire, Xxxx, these days?)

RC2 said:

DS, yeah, maybe it's silly. I've always been interested in Kleins since I dreamt, but couldn't come close to affording, an Attitude in the early 90's when MTB was my thing. The reve just seems like some cool tech, a stiff-as-hell bike that still feels great on mile 100. Is it a gimmic? Or is Klein once again doing something that will become commonplace? (I tend to respect their engineering and technical savvy, but hey, aren't they owned by the evil empire, Xxxx, these days?)

I rode RAGBRAI 16 in 1988 on my criterium bike - a Ciocc. One guy with a Klein said "hey, that's a beautiful bike" and I told him "That Klein you're riding is my dream bike". But he didn't have the internal cable routing - he said that was a $200 upgrade.

My wife and I walked into a bike shop that had just opened about 6 years ago and they had a Klein Quantum Pro on display. My steel Eddy Merckx was only a few years old and I was (and still am) very happy with it but I told her "That's my next bike". I picked it up and was floored by how light and balanced it was.

Over the years I've always had a short list of bikes that would merit "dream bike" status, and every year it changed a little bit, but Klein has always been near the top of it. Took me until last year to finally own one. It's an incredible ride. Anyway, Mike Jacoubowski who posts a lot on Usenet and owns a Trek/Klein bike shop near here and has his own blog and whose reviews I trust, wrote this about the Reve:

I can't speak for the Pilot, as I haven't ridden one yet. The Klein I have
gotten some good miles on though, and I seriously think that, if they market
it right, it's a breakthrough product. I did my usual
Tuesday/Thursday-morning ride with one, which includes about 3200 feet of
climbing, some very fast descents, and a variety of pavement, er, styles. I
was very, very impressed. I couldn't find anything to complain about...
climbing, both in the saddle and out, gave no indication of anything that
was robbing power or causing the bike to handle differently. No
"energy-sucking sponge effect", real or imagined.

But my, any sort of bumps and irregularities in the pavement were definitely
reduced in amplitude, in a way that a "compliant" frame, and even larger
tires, seems not to accomplish. In my opinion, this type of design is
probably better than trying to increase the damping of a given material by
adding compounds to the tubes.

I should try and find my initial test report, which was submitted to TREK
for internal purposes, and post it on our website.

By biggest fear of the elastomer "bumper" technology is that they'll bring
it too far downstream (use it on cheaper models) and kill off its
desirability at the high end. In my opinion, high-end bikes stand to
benefit the most from this technology, because you can build a
short-wheelbase high-performance bike, with narrow tires, that is absolutely
a smoother bike to ride (without giving up anything more than 4 ounces, near
as I can tell).

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com