cross bikes suck for riding on the road; the geo doesn’t work well. if it does, your cx bike is probably shit at cx
JP can speak for herself, here, but my issue with cyclocross on the road is that the handling really bums me out. Really prefer fast road geo.
EDIT: Drat! late to the post.
do they salt the roads out there in winter?
I don’t think so. They put some anti-ice thing on some of them sometimes, but they certainly don’t salt them like they salt the roads where I’m from.
you just want a road bike designed around fenders
i think what you’re looking for is a rivendell sam hillborne.
that is a lovely bicycle
i like your ideas so far about carbon c-dale race bike since the geo is a known quantity.
klatch geo appears legit but for some reason “gravel-racer” as a marketing term pisses me off. it will take another 1500 beyond the frame to get a respectable build. also with disc bikes your existing wheels will not fit.
whatever you do i will support you in. you’re the best and i love you.
unless you bring home rolf wheels. then im kicking you out.
<3
if you bring home rolf wheels ur banned from canada
stay scared
Does that Klatch have a canti/v option? If so, do that.
I’m not sure. I emailed to ask, so I should know soon.
There’s also the Camino: www.co-motion.com/index.php/bikes/camino
what about the nor’wester
I rode a friend’s Nor’wester a few years ago (when the model was a light touring bike, not sure if the geo has changed), they can produce a sweet riding frame.
Not digging the “more relaxed fit” thing. Looks good otherwise, but I never seem to like more upright fits.
That settles it
Gonna start calling my davidson a rain grindr
Actually the norwester looks like pretty legit geometry.
Would check on brake reach.
Get another CAAD10 to race on, unless you are dead set on getting carbon. Those things are sweet and I don’t know if there’s a race-style bike that I’ve ridden that handles better (can only speak to small sizes here, but fortunately that’s what JP rides, too).
I don’t know how good your Co-Motion brodeal is gonna be, but I’m guessing it’s gonna cost a good chunk of change more than a CAAD10 Ultegra 3 (msrp $2270) on brodeal (a lot less). You’re gonna need money to build that up and it makes sense to me to have your race bike be cheaper than your custom steel high-mileage thing. Crash replacement on the CAAD10 is dirt cheap, IIRC (not for this time, of course, but if you have a racing incident down the line). I’ve never raced, so my view is probably biased by the fact that, as a mechanic, I usually saw racer’s bikes when they were at least semi-fucked, but it seems like your race bike is gonna take a beating, so don’t make it something too precious.
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50cm has a 10cm headtube. It isn’t bad. Worst case pony up extra to have them race out the front end