Looking for a new bike that will be comfortable on long multi-day trips, say for creditcard touring (no interest in road racing).
This bike has a big advantage: you can fit a rack to it.
Anyone have any experience with it? Any information will be welcome.
It sounds dangerous.
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Mark
Nice looking bike but I always hget worried when no specs listed
Introduction•
Fork and rear triangle designed to work together• I should hope so.
Double-butted aluminum frame• There is double butting and double butting
HDS: Horizontal Dual System• No idea what this means
Geometry -AFS - cyclosportive version• Presume this is Frame geometry but once again noGeometry details
Integrated rack eyelets• This is waht you want
Well-chosen, quality components --No specs.
I would look at the bike again to see if it is of the quality that you want.
I would have my doubts.
How long was I in the army? Five foot seven.
Spike Milligan
HDS: Horizontal Dual System
For over ten years now, the Horizontal Dual System has ensured that the top part of our frames absorb vibration while the lower section fully delivers power to the rear wheel. Dividing the frame into two horizontally segmented parts reduces frame weight significantly.
o Compared to a frame built with conventional tubes, weight can be reduced by as much as 20% while retaining all the stiffness and stability of a heavier frame.
Well-chosen, quality components
A well-balanced frameset calls for a well-balanced group of components:
o Xero Shawla aero-profile rims.
o Shimano Ultegra derailleur.
o Shimano 105 brake/shift levers.
o FSA Gossamer MegaExo compact crankset (50-34).
The thoughts and opinions expressed by this poster are his own and should not be misconstrued as gospel. They are and were not meant to inflame, enrage or otherwise tick anyone off, usually. ©
2012 Ti Motobecane with SRAM Red 2013~2008 Trek Madone with SRAM Force~2010 Specialized Hardrock 29er~2006 Trek 4300~Garmin 800 CTR
Mark
I have a three day convention in Italy this fall, which I intend to stretch to 10 days with a week of touring in Tuscany.
I'm currently trying to decide what to do for a "travel bike". I figure it will either be a Surley Traveler's Check or a Co-Motion Norwester Co-Pilot. A Ritchey Breakway cyclocross model is another consideration. All of these will accept fenders and racks and are of a known, proven lineage. So, unless I stop in the UK and pick up a new Bob Jackson (ain't gonna' happen) it will probably be one of the above.
Just sayin.........
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."......C.S. Lewis
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