Originally Posted by
deapee
You can't beat the cobble gobler seat post in my opinion -- and the Zertz inserts are not night and day, but over a 2 hour ride, the dampening adds up.
That said, They both will come with a 25mm tire -- and the 28 will fit on the Roubaix, from everything I have read. I don't see a reason to change the tires, unless you're going on towpaths with lots of half-buried rocks, etc.
They both have the 50/34 and 11-32, so that's a moot point. Both come with 700x25.
At the end of the day, they are very similar. I don't think you'd be going wrong with either choice. For me, it would come down to the bike shop, and even what color I liked better...or how big or a hurry I was in and if someone had my size/color in stock and the other didn't.
You may like the COBL seatpost but the top riders in the world riding for Specialized racing over the harshest cobble stages of the Classics...many on custom Roubaixs with short head tubes...they don't use it. You would think of all that needed it over these brutal 5 hr races, it would be them.