my solution to all of that? get ajob at a bike shop. got me my colnago c40 after just 1 year...best 3 grand i ever spent. i saved 2500...yeah i know, i probably didnt need the hyperion wheels or the record carbon cranks..
I forgot about the Fox TALAS shocks, and Specialized's Epic (simply amazing), and the return of steel frames. some of them are approaching the weight of Al frames at a much lower cost.
bike-wise, Titus' Exogrid(?) is pretty cool. Its a titanium grid in the carbon fiber weave. Colnago still continues to blow me away with thier vast experience with carbon fiber (could some of that possibly be coming from thier partnership with Ferrari?) Thiers most certainly doesnt have the dead, woodlike feel of Trek's OCLV. Shimano's new Saint freeride gruppo looks very promising and hopefully will incoperate even more upgrades than the '03 XTR. Also the widespread use of Ti and its associated technologies is pretty sick. Since I also throw discus, carbon fiber side panels, exceedingly fast rotating discs, and shoes that you can spin forever on
Good for the people who did that. But the common person has no use for levitating liquids. And even if we did, it would be so expensive that most people couldnt afford it.
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Colango has lugged carbon fiber frames (c40, i ride one), but the Cinelli is pretty sick
i believe that deRosa offers custom Al frames, and Colnago used to, but im not sure if they still do, but nothing compares to 531
my solution to all of that? get ajob at a bike shop. got me my colnago c40 after just 1 year...best 3 grand i ever spent. i saved 2500...yeah i know, i probably didnt need the hyperion wheels or the record carbon cranks..
wasnt chris boardman the guy who built his own frames that put him practically over the bars?
I forgot about the Fox TALAS shocks, and Specialized's Epic (simply amazing), and the return of steel frames. some of them are approaching the weight of Al frames at a much lower cost.
bike-wise, Titus' Exogrid(?) is pretty cool. Its a titanium grid in the carbon fiber weave. Colnago still continues to blow me away with thier vast experience with carbon fiber (could some of that possibly be coming from thier partnership with Ferrari?) Thiers most certainly doesnt have the dead, woodlike feel of Trek's OCLV. Shimano's new Saint freeride gruppo looks very promising and hopefully will incoperate even more upgrades than the '03 XTR. Also the widespread use of Ti and its associated technologies is pretty sick. Since I also throw discus, carbon fiber side panels, exceedingly fast rotating discs, and shoes that you can spin forever on
Good for the people who did that. But the common person has no use for levitating liquids. And even if we did, it would be so expensive that most people couldnt afford it.
Andrew Rauss