Originally Posted by
avidone1
Not to disparage this bike in any way, I'm a "specialized guy" so to speak..... but I can't remember ever reading a professional review of a bike that wasn't basically a positive review. I'm sure they are out there, but I don't recall ever seeing one.
They're almost always polite, but not uniformly enthusiastic. It's pretty easy to decode between the "great bike" and the "not as bad as we expected" reviews in Cycling Weekly, Bikeradar and so on.