Okay - can anyone tell me why the norwester over the camino or klatch?
Because it is a road bike not a bike for uncoordinated roadies to ride on unpaved roads
Cuz non-disc, so wheel set swappability with existing bike pile
In the next two years, feasible lifespan for race bike, will getting spare wheels from support be easier with disc or rim brakes? Resale value of any rim braking wheels you have is still stable if you decide to go with disc on both bikes.
Asking outside the home is all well and good but I’d sort out the internet data and go with whatever is going to be livable. Nothing is without fault.
You wanna big tires or med tires and fender you need norwester
The camino is dick brakes
The ristretto has less tire clearance and shorter chainstays
Id get nice bike to train grind and commute on and keep for long time
Brodeal a cheap bike to race on like a caad10 or whatever…
why not endpoint or elephant?
i mean, cmon
dick brakes 2015
Because she doesn’t own any disc wheels and an elephant would be tucking terrible for road base miles
You want a non fop version of my Kirk, ideally for 1/4 the frame price
[quote=Miguel]
dick brakes 2015[/quote]
get into it
^^^ yep
Norwester is pretty much that. Especially if you get a good hookup.
[quote=Miguel]
dick brakes 2015[/quote]
get into it[/quote]
No
There provide very little gain for a significant outlay
[quote=Miguel]why not endpoint or elephant?
i mean, cmon
dick brakes 2015[/quote]
Dick brakes aren’t a complete dealbreaker. I think I’d prefer rim brakes because then I could do things like use my powertap wheels on the rain bike for winter training and stuff. BUT, if there’s a good reason to get the klatch or camino rather than the nor’wester, I will use dicks. Does that make sense?
As for the Endpoint/Elephant, reading the Elephant chat, sounds like they don’t even make a size small enough for me, so fuck that, and Endpoint is enticing, but won’t be custom and as good a deal as the CoMotion, since no team deal. CoMotion is mainly on the table because they sponsor my team, and I get a great deal on a custom-built bike from them.
Get a rim brake nor’wester. There is literally zero reason, at your body weight riding unloaded to go disc over a top quality mid reach caliper
Get it custom with matching stack/reach to your race bike, then have them work out the rest to play nice with fenders
Cool. If I go CoMotion, Nor’wester will probably be the one.
As for the race bike, I’ve had lots of fun on the Caad10, and I know plenty of way faster people than me race on them. Doug and some other folks I know have been saying I’ll do well on a carbon bike partly because of the weight savings, but also because they say it will help with fatigue, as it won’t be quite so bumpy. I like the idea of having a super light fancy race bike, but I would be lying if I said I don’t have anxiety about the damage I could do to a fancy plastic bike. That said, I think I’d put a lot less wear on a race bike if I had a separate training bike. A lot of the wear on my dead Caad10 was from riding it around town and from training on it through multiple winters, which wouldn’t be happening to a dedicated fancy plastic race bike.
Thanks for all the advice, guys! If anyone else has thoughts, particularly on the race bike issue, I’m happy to hear them.
For the race bike get the cheapest serviceable option then spend the rest on a sub 1100g carbon tubular race set
Wheel weight >>>> frame weight
Chris froome didn’t care about his 1100g dogma because he had a set of sub 1000g race wheels to climb on
You should win on it.
Best thought on race bike
Supplementary thought is you should win a Merckx TT on it
Afterthought is you should worry about if race bike suffered abuse after winning
Edit thought: lol at catdrew
You have a metaphysical response, I gave a physical one
Both can be applied