I checked the high-end road bike option, but I'm primarilly a fan of high-end classic lugged-steel road bikes. You know, the stuff from the mid-60's to the mid-80's and the stuff since then that carries on the tradition, the kind of stuff pictured on Classic Rendezvous. Aluminum and carbon fiber just don't give me the same goose-pimply feel I get from looking at a nicely built steel frame. Fillet brazed is also way cool, TIG-welded less so. And I have never been able to get into the industrial-chic look of mountain bikes, especially as the amount of suspension increases. Names like "De Rosa" and "Paramount" and "Della Santa" get my adrenaline pumping. Names like "Stumpjumper" and "Judy" just never have. Probably my loss, but there it is.
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