Originally Posted by cia dog

Man I don't know where your reading abilities are but there sure weren't here tonight. I rode the Madone because a friend of mine wanted me to test ride it, so I did, I didn't want to buy it but also I didn't want it and I wasn't thrilled enough to be swooned. And I also said it's your money you can spend it anyway you see necessary to fill the hole in your life...ok, I didn't say it that way you can reread it to get the exact rendering, but essentially that's the deal. And part of that hole in your life is thinking that if someone doesn't have a bike or car or house or whatever as good as what you have then they must be poor miserable souls and maybe someday they can rise to your level. I can tell from reading your post I don't want to be anywhere near your level! For me to spend $6,000 for a bike that I could never make it go the way Lance does is not a wise expenditure of money when a steel or even a less expensive bike that weighs the same as the Madone would be a better purchase. Personally I have a gripe against CF bicycles but that's a debate that has raged wars here and I'm not going to enter into that. I have other investments that I pour my money into and a bike is not an investment in the true sense of the word which is the use of money for future profit...and a Madone is not that.