Originally Posted by
coasting
by the way fellow addicts, rowan and i have the exact same merlin carbon frame. I love my merlin and when i rode it in sept back in london, i thought it was the snappiest most responsive bike i had ever ridden and comfy as a sofa.
It's old fashioned in the sense that it's tubes and sockets, but it's a nice bike. It's been through several drivetrain iterations, and is now back to two front chainrings. And yeah it's snappy... as if a fat slob of a rider like me could tell. Nevertheless I rode my fastest century on it, which wasn't too bad.