Today we are going to highlight Felt Bikes. Here is some history:
At Felt, our mission remains as it’s been since the beginning: to design, develop, and deliver the best bicycles in the world. Period.
The roots of this mission trace back more than two decades. It all started in the late 1980s when motocross star Johnny O’Mara asked his ace motorcycle mechanic Jim Felt to build him a time trial bike. Johnny was competing in triathlons as training for motocross.
A competitive age-group triathlete himself, Jim had a distinct vision of how he could improve on the designs of the time. He focused on optimizing rider position to maximize aerodynamic efficiency. It worked. Johnny immediately started winning races, and before long Jim was building bikes for many of the world’s top triathletes. When Paula Newby-Fraser won the1991 Kona Ironman on a Felt, Jim found himself officially in the bicycle business.
Ten years after Jim Felt built that first triathlon bike, it was time to expand. Enter Bill Duehring and Michael Mullmann. Bill, a bike industry veteran, brought years of product development experience and strong global supplier ties. Michael owned a successful distribution company in Europe.It was the perfect melding of skills. Felt now had more than 70 years of combined experience in developing, manufacturing, and distributing high-quality bicycles. Jim brought his respected name, design experience, and athlete relationships. Bill had broad-based product development knowledge and vendor connections. Michael had extensive experience in distribution and marketing.
“We didn’t want to be the biggest bike company in the world, just the best” was the trio’s shared maxim. Together Jim, Bill, and Michael developed a singular goal: to build a bicycle brand dedicated to technological innovation and unmatched quality.
Since those fledgling days, the Felt brand has grown far beyond its triathlon roots, and today includes a complete bike line that touches all of cycling’s various disciplines. Whether climbing the highest peaks of the Tour de France, bombing down single-track, racing your first triathlon, or commuting to work, Felt delivers a bike with uncompromised performance, maximum comfort, and optimized efficiency.
In engineering, product development, sales, marketing, and customer service, the same underlying values that sparked the start of the company continue to drive every Felt employee, every day. Indeed, every Felt bike is designed and built to make your cycling experience the absolute best it can be. No matter how you measure success, be it product development, milestones, or race wins, Felt has delivered. From innovative manufacturing processes such as InsideOut and Dynamic Monocoque Construction, to breakthrough technologies such as Equilink suspension and the Bayonet Steering System, Felt is constantly expanding the boundaries of possibility and making them a reality.
The core to this success is a company-wide mandate to continually improve on past success. Nothing is done in a vacuum. Instead, each new Felt bike, be it road or off-road, high-end performance to entry-level recreation, utilizes critical lessons from past designs, and then incorporates new enhancements. The results speak for themselves. The world’s fastest UCI legal time trial bike, the DA, continues to dominate the international time trial and triathlon circuit. The Edict full-suspension mountain bike is a stalwart on the world’s elite cross-country scene. The top-tier AR and F road bikes are mainstays of the European peloton. And, the TK1 has been raced on the track at two Olympic Games, Beijing in 2008 and now London 2012.
Felt has also made a dramatic incursion into cyclo-cross with its top-end FX series, a World Cup worthy carbon fiber platform that helped American star Ryan Trebon continue his dominating ways in 2011. Felt also launched the new Edict Nine, a 29-inch wheeled mountain bike racing machine that provides the ideal balance between weight, strength, stiffness, ride quality, and durability. And of course we remain exceptionally proud of our Verza line. These bikes are so popular that after just one year, they had to be expanded into Verza City and Verza Path series just to keep up with interest and demand.
On the competition front, Felt is a dominant player. Recent highlights include the Project London track team shattering the U.S. team sprint record, Argos-Shimano ace sprinter Marcel Kittel’s conquest of Belgium’s testing Scheldeprijs race, and Kristin Armstrong’s time trial victory at the Tour of California. Other notable Felt driven efforts include triathlon star Andi Böcherer’s victory at the Ironman 70.3 European championships, and of course, Thomas Litscher’s U23 UCI Mountain Bike World Championship.
Competition is only part of the Felt story. Our Café cruiser series continues to offer a contemporary and stylish solution for anyone looking to make cycling part of a healthy and environmentally responsible lifestyle. And the Verza City and Verza Path lines further demonstrate that Felt is helping change the way people think about bikes and transportation in general.
With an exciting array of bikes for all types of riders and disciplines, plus a host of new technologies, 2013 promises to be another exceptional year. Don’t expect Felt’s mission to change. Just as it was when Jim Felt started the company all those years ago, we continue to design, develop, and deliver the best bicycles in the world. Period
Felt offers bikes in all of the following categories: Road, Endurance, Womens, Lifestyle, Mountain, Track, TT/Triathlon, Cyclocross, Touring, and Urban. Even if Tom's doesn't have the particular Felt that you are looking for we can order it for you.
My personal favorite Felt is the Felt B2 TT/Triathlon Bike. This bike is beautifully built and just looks cool. I personally own a Felt Breed Single Speed Cross Bike and also a Felt Elite Nine Mountain Bike and enjoy each of them immensely. They are very well constructed and I have no doubts that if I "fit" properly on their B2 that would be my TT/Tri bike of choice.
- Finish: Matte Carbon
- Sizes: 650c x 47cm, 700c x 51cm, 54cm, 56cm, 58cm, 61cm
- Weight: 19.62lbs | 8.92kg *based on 56cm frame size
- Frame: "Felt Aero TT/Tri UHC Advanced MMC Carbon Fiber Frame w/ 3KP Weave, InsideOut internal molding process, aluminum BB30 shell, internal electric or mechanical cable routing, Carbon Fiber dropout & aluminum rear derailleur hanger"
- Fork: Felt Aero TT/Tri UHC Performance monocoque fork; 100% Carbon Fiber blades, dropouts w/ aluminum 1.125" steerer tube & crown
- Headset: FSA 1.125" Integrated, 16mm cone spacer w/ brake cable hanger, 2 x 10mm PC headset spacer, 2 x 5mm PC headset spacer
- Stem: Felt SL 3D forged 6061 aluminum w/custom Cr-Mo bolts, +/-17° Rise, Ø31.8mm bar clamp, 51cm=80mm, 54cm=90mm, 56cm=100mm, 58cm=100mm, 61cm=110mm.
- Handlebar: Felt Bayonet 3 6061 hydroformed aluminum, w/ internal cable routing, perfect fit adjustbability, 7075 aluminum ƒ-Bend 3-position extensions w/aluminum arm rests & dimpled gel pads
- Grips: Devox Gel Velvet Tape w/ Felt Logos & Felt tri-tip grips
- Shifters: Shimano Ultegra Di2 TT
- Front Derailleur: Shimano Ultegra Di2 braze-on
- Rear Derailleur: Shimano Ultegra Di2
- Crankset: Shimano Ultegra Hollowtech-II, 53/39T; 51cm=170mm, 54cm-56cm=172.5mm, 58cm-61cm=175mm
- Chainwheel: Shimano 53T/39T
- Bottom Bracket: FSA BB30 w/ 24mm spindle reducers
- Chain: Shimano 10-speed
- Freewheel: Shimano, 11-25T
- Brake Levers: Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 TT
- Brakes: Felt Integrated Aero w/ cartridge brake pads
- Cables: Felt slick brake housing & Di2 derailleur cables
- Saddle: Prologo NAGO EVO TRI 40 T2.0, nylon injected base w/active density padding & Cro-Mo rails
- Seat Post: Felt Aero DA/B UHC Advanced Carbon Fiber Forward Offset Bladed Monocoque Design
- Seat Post Clamp: Felt Integrated DA/B Aero aluminum w/steel bolts
- Rims: Felt TTR2
- Front Hub: Felt TTR2
- Rear Hub: Felt TTR2
- Spokes: Stainless steel
- Tires: Felt Aero TTR2 Clincher, 700c x 23c, 127 tpi
- Accessories: Shimano Di2 battery & battery charger,Aero battery Cover, DA/B Aero Bottle System by TorHans™
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