Tomorrow I receive my first properly new bike in over 10 years, a 2014 Specialized Roubaix.

Can’t wait, will post up!

What width are the bars? 😉

I guess I missed that thread.

44s tho.

Got a Roubaix Elute earlier this year and loving it!! Very comfy, capable bike. Hoping to be doing the 2014 Fred Whitton on it.

Which one?

roubaix? have you given up racing?

The £1.6k triple. Getting rebuilt with my kit tho

Good marathon?

This thread seems to have several in-jokes.

Cool.

You keeping the triple?
What are you changing?

You can race a Roubaix.

OK chunky, new PB but only by 28s.

Rusty – yes, and everything else! Seemed the cheapest way to get the frameset (after selling the rest)

Rusty – yes, and everything else! Seemed the cheapest way to get the frameset (after selling the rest)

Sorry, didn’t get that – you’re keeping the triple but changing other bits?

I’ve been looking at these but they seem a bit pricey compared to the Giants – no staff discount for me though!

Correct – swapping everything over from old bike.

I didn’t look at the Giants and I’d always buy a bike for its frame, the components don’t matter as much to me

You can race a Roubaix

triple

😯

Ha ha. I can’t believe the no of folk that get fooled by the hype.

Wow, you are pretty desperate to criticise me, aren’t you.

By “hype” I meant the notion that you can’t race on a triple or a Roubaix.

are you fitting panniers as well as the triple?

It does give me a giggle that so many idiots think triples are chosen by the slow.

I chose this because the only other option was a compact – that is for the slow.

he he

You’ll be missed in the Sierra Nevada’s Al. We’ve all been Canal towpath training – so we’ll be alreet.

the only other option was a compact

or proper gearing 😉

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/m7b0s134p4286/CANNONDALE-CAAD10-105-WOMENS-2012

Just gained brownie points and ordered one of these the the current wife last night. What a good husband I am.

are you fitting panniers as well as the triple?

will those nice cushy 38c tyres fit a Roubaix?

Well here it is when it arrived, 9.0kg (no pedals), seatpost to high (feel free to make hilarious commencts):

Untitled by alan cole, on Flickr

To this with all my stuff on it, 8.3kg.Rides pretty well, I am delight.

Untitled by alan cole, on Flickr

Looks like a rubbish MTB that.

Frames to small or seatpost is too long!

Changed a fair bit of stuff to lose 700g.

I’d go along with others and say it perhaps looks a tiny bit small, but that’s preferable to having a barn door size frame.

Real men ride doubles, fact. 😉

Waiting on my new road bike too, should arrive next week 😀

The more they hate, the more I like it.

Real men don’t ride compacts.

It’s borderline too small but the 58 has a Jack and the Beanstalk head tube (which you’d all be flaming, had I bought it) – I prefer this.

That seatpost looks like the aftermath of a mail ordered bike ….

That seat post better just be for comic purposes

That looks like a kid’s bike.

cynic-al – Member

It’s borderline too small but the 58 has a Jack and the Beanstalk head tube (which you’d all be flaming, had I bought it) – I prefer this.

Why not go for a Tarmac then? Not flaming, genuine question.

58 has a Jack and the Beanstalk head tube (which you’d all be flaming, had I bought it)

It’s always best to choose a bike based on what people will say about it rather than how it fits 😐

Bit contradictory re: the triple comments though

Why not go for a Tarmac then? Not flaming, genuine question.

This is more comfy – esp the 56, with more seatpost.

rOcKeTdOg – Member

It’s always best to choose a bike based on what people will say about it rather than how it fits

Bit contradictory re: the triple comments though

My point was that I’d get flamed for whatever I bought, and IDGAS if folk don’t like it – least of all you and the other haterz

Although not a Roubaix fan I have to say in that second photo it looks good.

Correct stem height and angle too.

least of all you and the other haterz

Don’t like it – but I don’t hate it either.

That seatpost just looks disproportionately too long.
I’d worry about the leveraging of that post in the frame, for sure – that is one Roubaix I wouldn’t go hammering across cobbles on.

edit::admittedly the second photo has the seatpost lower.

edit edit::thank god.

IDGAS if folk don’t like it

Clearly given the outburst the “D” stands for do, I’d calm down and go ride up some hills on your triple if I were you

I’m completely calm rOckEtDOg, just weary of lazy stupid posting like yours