Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
Wait, wait! Is that Rod Serling I hear in the background accompanied by the Twilight Zone music? Give me a break. I know you were going uphill, but which way was the bike going?
LOL Sorry, I realize that it was poorly written. In the interest of full disclosure my current bike is an 89 Schwinn World Sport. I have to pedal really hard to get that thing up hills, so riding the Opera was like taking the ankle weights off before a run. What I meant was that it was moving so quickly and easily through the gears on the way up the hill that I wasn't keeping up.
Also of interest (to me at least) is that I have ridden several other bikes (Cannondale Synapse, Specialized Tarmac, GT, Trek 2.1) and none of them felt like the Opera. It felt really fast to me, but thats just my own anecdotal comment.