Originally Posted by
big john
That Tarmac will smoke your Roubaix? They're not motorcycles. You will find riders on beat up cheap bikes who can smoke YOU, regardless of which bike you are riding.
I have an expensive bike and people drop me all the time.
This. You'll realize it's not the bike when you get gapped by a homeless dude on a 15 year old Mongoose MBX as he creaks by with a broken pedal and a gripshift wrapped around the handlebar, bouncing along to meet that 3pm shelter deadline.