💎 CRYSTALLIZED 💎
This very unique Mogul belongs to our engineer @luke_ryon He wanted to do a crystal effect paint job on his tri bike and our painter Steve was up to the challenge. You've maybe seen this before on a helmet or motorcycle fuel tank, but it's much more difficult to do on a bike frame.
There are formulas you can buy, but Luke wanted to mix his own and test out some solutions.
I'll post in the comments the details of his mixture and the process.
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#dimond #ttbike #aerodynamics #ironman #ironman703 #tribike #triathlonlife #racebike #bikerace #crystalfx #crystalvibes #crystaldesign #crystaladdiction #paintjob #bikepaint #paintbooth
Dallas Clark knew how to find the end zone.
So we built his custom Dimond Mogul with the same kind of energy: bold, fast, and one-of-one.
Custom paint. Red Crown wheels. Pure Iowa legend. #superbowlchampion #ironman #dimondbikes
Behold @kuithe89 , clothed in the vivid green of spring itself, as though the very force of life had mounted a bicycle and chosen to challenge the long roads of Texas. Upon his @dimondbikes machine, radiant and severe, he cuts through the grey day like a banner carried into battle.
There is grandeur in such detail, in the alliance of man and color and purpose. His bike does not merely carry him, it declares him. The bright frame, the fierce wheels, the harmony of every chosen shade speak of a spirit unwilling to pass unnoticed, a soul that understands that courage may also be elegant.
The road stretches, vast and indifferent, but Ryan answers it with discipline. Bent low against the wind, he becomes less a rider than a force, less an athlete than a promise in motion.
At IRONMAN Texas, some race for time. Others race to reveal themselves. And in that brilliant flash of green against the storm-colored sky, Ryan was unmistakably seen.
#imtx #partyonthehardy #ironmantexas #triathlon #swimbikerun
She came through the gray Texas morning like a bright refusal of ordinary things, all color and velocity, the road bending itself beneath her wheels. Pink frame, blue suit, the small fierce geometry of motion, and the long discipline of mornings no one sees.
There is something about a triathlete in full flight that feels almost borrowed from another world, as if time itself agrees to loosen its grip for a moment and let the body become pure intention. Head low, heart steady, every mile a private conversation between pain and promise.
@carolyn.marie613 rode like that at IRONMAN Texas, not simply chasing a finish line, but inhabiting it long before it arrived.
Speed is never only speed. It is memory, sacrifice, patience, and the quiet stubborn belief that you can always go a little farther.
#imtx #partyonthehardy @trespinas@dimondbikes #ironmantexas #triathlon #swimbikerun
Color slips along the frame like a thought half-remembered, feathered in blue, a peacock dream caught in carbon and speed.
I drift the lens across it and it answers in silence, all curve and intent, a machine that seems already in motion even while still.
At the IRONMAN Texas expo, among the noise and the waiting, this one stands apart, whispering of miles not yet ridden and moments just before the break into flight.
@dimondbikes@tririg #triathlon #triathlete #flathoused #swimbikerun #ironmantri
Color first, it calls you in, a flare of pink against the day, and then the line of it, the lean intent, the curve that knows where it is going before you do.
A wheel waiting, quiet but not still, holding in it the long road, the hum of tires, the soft churn of effort that turns seconds into something heavier, something felt.
Hands will take it, soon enough. Legs will answer.
For now it rests among voices and banners and passing eyes, but there is a pulse under the paint, a low, steady insistence.
Go on then.
You can almost hear it begin.
#triathlon #triathlete #partyonthehardy #swimbikerun #ironmantri @dimondbikes
A frame like a thought half-formed and already racing ahead of itself, black and bright, a whisper of motion before motion begins.
No clutter, no apology, only the clean insistence of speed, a wheel dreaming of roads not yet ridden, of heat rising off Texas asphalt, of breath and pulse and the long stretch where time loosens its grip.
It waits here among voices and hands and passing glances, yet it is elsewhere already, slipping forward, chasing something just out of reach.
#triathlon #partyonthehardy #flathoused #swimbikerun #ironmantri @dimondbikes
The morning came gentle, the air soft and untroubled, the road laid open as if in quiet mercy, and into it @fightjojofight rode, steady, composed, carrying more than the miles before her.
She had known harder winds recently, not only those that rise across open roads but those that come unbidden and ask more than strength, and still she stands, still she moves, still she answers.
Where once the world pressed hard, now it yields, if only for a while, and she takes it not for granted but as something earned.
There is a courage that lingers beyond the finish, beyond the race, written not in time but in the simple act of continuing.
And so she rides.
2026 IRONMAN 70.3 Texas
#badassisbeautiful #triathlon #fightgirlfight #swimbikerun #ironman703texas @dimondbikes@tririg@rudyprojectna@bettydesigns@everybodyisabetty
A man bent to the will of the wind, yet not broken by it. @stone.m.kyle , low and narrow over the machine, cuts a thin line through the morning, the road humming beneath him, the air pressing back as if to deny him passage. No water today, no gentle beginning. Only this long argument with the gale.
The fields lie open and watch, the sky swollen with slow clouds, and he rides on, teeth set, a quiet resolve in the rhythm of his legs. Each turn of the crank a small refusal, each mile a claim staked against the force that would hold him still.
@dimondbikes #im703littleelm #triathlon #swimbikerun #triathlete
