Originally Posted by sivat
for those of you who don't think dual suspension road bikes are on the way, take a trip to your local college campus. I'll be 70% of the bikes i see on campus are cheap, full suspension mountain bikes which will probably never see a dirt trail.
*rolls eyes*
Cheapo MTBs have dual suspension because the expensive machines they are attempting to emulate have them as well.
High-end roadbikes do not, and will never have any form of suspension (and certainly NEVER rear suspension), therefore, China Inc./Wal-Mart will not attempt to emulate such designs, for they never exist.
About the only chance there is for roadbikes to grow springs is if
you started selling cheap Mongoose MTBs outfitted with drop bars on Craigslist
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-Kurt