Sorry if this seems like trolling.
Originally Posted by
thebulls
.... There's a very good chance that it will not be the bike that would be recommended by a wannabe-racer 20-something bike-shop dude (or dudette) who thinks that anything over 35 miles is a pretty long ride and anything over a century is a sign of incipient crazyness.
I LOVE going into a bike shop and having the "wannabe-racer 20-something bike-shop dude" ask me if they can help me / did I ride this past weekend.
I LOVE it because when I answer "well, this past weekend I did two solo rides totalling 255 miles", they get that "oh, this isn't a 20-mile-is-a-long-ride-johnny" look, and ... leave me alone. Or, at least the ones with any common sense do.