Cyclocross Bike Recommendations
#26
Overacting because I can
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I literally built this today - about to put knobbies on it.
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so I guess your wish has been granted
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I'm sad to say that I doubt it. Unless your idea of a "bigger tyre" is quite different to mine. A lot of Spec Roubaix's can't even run a 25mm tyre without problems. Admittedly this is a production flaw, but it would have to be a hell of a flaw to reduce effective clearance from an intended 28 or 30mm to less than 25! See eg
https://www.cyclingforums.com/cycling...ubaix-pro.html
Obviously a flaw as gross as this is a reason to think very hard before buying a Roubaix or any other carbon Specialized bike, even if it checks out as free of the fault. If frames can be so badly mis-formed that they won't work with the stock tyre and still escape the factory you have to wonder what more subtle faults are being missed.
Pity, because on paper this bike was such a good idea, despite the gimmicky zertz inserts.
Does anyone know what the Trek and Giant equivalents of the Roubaix are, and what tyres they can take? I've been told that Canyon Roubaix bikes are superb, but I think they're not sold in the US - and that they're alu anyway.
Last edited by meanwhile; 08-31-09 at 06:57 AM.