Originally Posted by
RobbieTunes
When you get your Madone back, take the dimensions of the Scwhinn and try to duplicate them on the Madone. Perhaps you'l find renewed joy in that, to match your newfound satisfaction with real steel.
My local group seems to be all Trek, with an occasional bikesdirect.com ride and a Cannondal Slice to drool over. However, we've added another Ironman guy, a Peugeot Triathlon, a Lemond Alps de Huez, a Mercier, and one of the bikesdirect guys has decided to go get his old Ironman for a go at a second life. We're adding a lady on an Ironman soon. A friend in Raleigh just went and got an Ironman to supplant his aluminum EM, aluminum Ridley, and Ti Lynskey. A CF riding friend in CA (two classic CF bikes) is looking into a Paramount....
Steel is catching on.
I have no idea why all the Ironman bikes, though.....
+1 The reality is that, as a matter of physics, the Trek should be faster if both bikes are set up identically.
But then, the race was rigged.