Originally Posted by badsac
I'll be looking at the R700 as well. Make sure you keep us updated on how you like it. More specifically, could you find some fairly ordinary road with coarse grains of blue metal (stone) (if your roads over there are like that) and tell me what the ride is like?
Rode it in a triathlon yesterday (25 mile bike course). I love this bike. Route was half asphalt / half concrete. On the asphalt the ride was very smooth. Since this is my first road bike, I don't have anything to compare it to, but there wasn't any vibration. The carbon fork and seat post seemed to do its job.