winnnerrrr
I’ve only ever loved two bikes for the way they ride. My '74 Atala track bike (used purely as a sweet fixie) and my dad’s '81 Merckx.
The merckx is incredibly sweet and was a production model, but I don’t know which one.
specialized tarmac comp (no can afford to race on s-works. i does afraid of crashing) 2010. 56cm 110mm stem.
handles descents like a champ. Finally learning to corner without dropping my inside knee down moto style. much faster and this thing is basically telepathic.
other bikes I’ve enjoyed:
seven elium stock 54cm geometry.
Resolving that question would require an elaborate and potentially fatal contest.
my ryd handles better than some of the handbuilt steel i own.
Resolving that question would require an elaborate and potentially fatal contest.[/quote]
PINEHURST RD.
FIRST THREE SWITCHBACKS
I’LL PROVIDE THE WET MUD ON THE ROAD
GO!
Resolving that question would require an elaborate and potentially fatal contest.[/quote]
PINEHURST RD.
FIRST THREE SWITCHBACKS
I’LL PROVIDE THE WET MUD ON THE ROAD
GO![/quote]
Precisely.
[quote=biekridd]my ryd handles better than some of the handbuilt steel i own.
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I wish this were yours.
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my lame ass troll attempt failed
coz metrocard.
From what I understand the Impulse was Davidson’s “production” model, so that. If it was a size bigger it would be absolutely perfect. It’s very slightly squirrely on very steep climbs and at very low speed, but I put that down to fit (or lack of it). Mine is 58 seat tube/57 top tube- early 1990-something. I’m running a 130 -10 stem on it.
I just love it. Good power to the pedals for climbing. Descends like whoa. It’s only stiff where it needs to be, so it has a pretty supple ride for a bike with such telepathic handling. It’s happiest at speed, but unlike a lot of bikes I’ve ridden it doesn’t fight you until you get there. It’s like “Fuck yeah! You’re almost there!”
i’ve been to nyc and i have a metro card in my possession at the moment.
Which Guru? The Evolo was actually one of the worst riding bikes I was ever on; it had a speed wobble at twenty miles an hour. The internal cable routing is horrendous, and the bike simply refused to ever shift correctly due to all the drag their poor design created. And you have to take the fucking cranks off to change a cable. The Photon seemed much more reasonably designed, despite being a featherweight carbon wünderbike.[/quote]
I ordered an Evolo-r.
my cervelo slc-sl has always descended like a bat out of hell, never too wide or too twitchy. i like my caad9 too, but not quite as confident descending. there was something about the pista i had that i liked more then my trek t1. sizing was a bit different as well.
Which fork on the Cervelo?
Dropped a couple spacers and swapped a +10 120mm for a -7 110mm stem on ze CAAD9 (been stretching my hammies and back out like a mo’fucka).
Bike is now giving me all of it in the handling department. Holeeee shit. This coupled with a building a new rear wheel properly so it doesn’t flex all over the fucking place = finally see why people like the US-made CAADs so much.
Look 585. XL. 58cm. 57.5 top tube. Technically it’s too small for me but I absolutely love the way it fits. Not the least bit squirrely. Makes me want to ride as fast as possible all the time. Such an amazing bike.
I had always thought that all this handling is BS. That was until I rode my son’s Raleigh Special Products Ti - then I thought the bike can not handle better.
However, when we swapped bikes for just this one climb (before the swap, I was riding his Raleigh, he was riding Pinarello Onda Paris -do not ask where he got it) I just could not believe it. The bikes are almost same weigh but the acceleration and climb of the Pinarello was out of this world - not that I could keep up with him riding Raleigh, but I was not losing on him that much. Pinarello was descending very surely, too despite shot headset. The climb was 18.9%, descent about 10%. Sorry about phone pics.
[quote=halbritt]
That’s right folks, I guarantee that I’m faster on descents than everyone in this thread and I’ve thrown this bike into hairpins at 30mph sliding both tires with a degree of confidence that I could probably pull something out of my ass and survive.[/quote]
I take your bet, Halbritt. You come over to my place with your bike and we ride a short loop. A bit of pre-ride chest banging
lol, that a bike could handle well was a surprise and you’re challenging Heath to a downhill race?