Originally Posted by warrenginn
With an aluminum frame, does the carbon fork make a difference? Do you take the felt out for rides over 50 or 60 miles (long tours)? Any complaints over rougher roads?
I'm hoping that my LBS can get one in for me to try.
I can definitely say that the Felt is better at filtering out the bumps than my old Trek 1000 which was all aluminium. Sure, if you hit bumps all the time your "boys" are going to get a bashing on any bike, but I regularly ride the F35 up to 50 miles and am starting to ride centuries on it and have had zero complaints about road roughness being transfered to my legs and arms in the way that the Trek did. Like I said though, some roads will kill you no matter what you ride (unless you have a MTB w/ shocks!).