Blacksmith Cycle — Parlee Z-0

The Backstory The world has known Parlee as the leader in custom carbon bike production since the day Tyler Hamilton rebadged his custom Parlee carbon frameset to seem like a Look in the 2002 Giro D'Italia and Tour de France. I remember thinking: that Parlee must be god damn incredible. Flash forward nearly 20 years, and I finally have a Parlee to call my own, a Parlee Z1 carbon frameset painted in metallic pink by the high-tech Massachusets workshop. Who is Parlee? Well, they are named after Bob Parlee, a man who has risen from carbon innovator to industry stalwart, just recently racking up another...