Road Cycling“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway
The Europeans also had more models earlier than the Americans. They had the Anodized Team version from 2001. They also had the TCR Track, Cross and Hybrid bikes first.
