Originally Posted by Thylacine
Yeah, but seriously, that was 13 years ago, and Bianchi has a long and glorious history of quality suspension bikes
I would've thought current suspension technology would be even more relevant to the road now, what with 'stable platform' damping and everything being current.
Haha. Bianchi's don't do it for me either. The last one I saw that I liked was Argentin's with the black chrome in 1987. The Italian Malvern Star (maybe a tad harsh, but you get the picture
). I've even learnt not to click on the 'crack a stiffy over my mass produced Bianchi' threads anymore.
I suspect the 'spongy' feel on the tarmac may have had a bit to do with the demise of suspension at Paris Roubaix. Everyone used to worry about locking it out, so your point about 'stable platform' might be the ticket. Maybe transferring mountain bike suspensions into a road application is overkill? To be honest, I know less than fark all about suspension. My mountain bike has drop bars in it. The last race I ever rode was on a veldrome with 160psi in the tyres.
I do know Museeuws bike was one of the most horrible monstrosities I've ever seen - it looked like it was made from celeste coloured meccano. Suspension forks looked like taking over in P-R at that time, then your favourite bike maker and good mate Ernesto Colnago said 'I'm not having those fugly things on my bikes', Mapei pwned everyone using (allegedly) EPO and C40's with straight forks, and that was the end of that!
BTW, who's the MTB guy using that 'sliding' suspension, and who is the manufactuerer? I saw it on TV a while back - looked pretty good.