Originally Posted by
Campag4life
The question of...is a bit of suspension better or not? Roads are less than perfect and most vehicles have suspension to compensate.
So the question is, what are the tradeoffs to adding some suspension on a road bike?
- Weight?
- Durability?
- Cost?
- Lost of control in and out of the saddle?
- loss of energy transfer?
There is a reason why many prefer a hardtail mountain bike to a dually...some addressed above.
But tech marks on. The Trek Domane introduced some displacement in the saddle some love and others don't. Spesh does it with their COBL seatpost which I am not in personal love with.
Will see how it goes and I will reserve judgement until it has been tested more. A bit of suspension front and rear maybe the next big thing on road bikes as most of us encounter rough roads on our rides which we would all prefer to be easier to ride at higher speed. Its one of the reasons I prefer an endurance geometry...because the frame natively offers more suspension based upon more laid out angles...force is attenuated laterally.
I agree with this. I could see it being a good thing on rougher roads. Time will tell what the true road feel of these creatures are, durability would be another concern. & how much different than frame angles is the result? I can imagine on cobbles that an absorber migh suck up a lot more immediate impact & "maybe" retain a lot of the road bike feel? Would be fun to be a test rider!