Anybody riding/ridden one of these carbon tourers??

cmon, you know this thread needs a picture of the bike we have never seen so we can make a sweeping judgment on it, based purely on the one image!! 🙂

This one?

No idea.

not yer traditional touring bike then…

sweeping comment time… looks flippin fast for touring, if it wasnt for the fact its way over my £5 road bike budget, I would. (£5 is enough for a road bike isnt it.)

Some good feedback on BR – http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/road/product/diem-drop-disc-08-28049

Yeah – that feedback looks pretty good. It was that mix of commuting and light touring/audax I was after. Shame the component mix is only Sora/Tiagra though.

Anyone else?

seen one of these in the flesh unfortunately the guy had ruined a completely good bike by modifying it, granted he had a bad back so need ed teh riser stem, 18 layers of handlebar tape etc.. The basic bike looked really nice

Ooh – that's nice!

Sorry – doesn't really help you but had to comment 🙂

I specced Sora on my Ribble winter trainer, its surprisingly good!

What are the brakes? Have Shimano brought out road-specific disks? Cable I suppose (because hydraulic STI levers seems too good (and expensive) to be true).

The grouppo doesn't really matter though does it, you're after a swoopy disc road bike I guess.

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allankelly – Member
What are the brakes? Have Shimano brought out road-specific disks? Cable I suppose (because hydraulic STI levers seems too good (and expensive) to be true).

The grouppo doesn't really matter though does it, you're after a swoopy disc road bike I guess.

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Shimano cable disks have been around for a while. I've not had any experience of how they cope with STI lever throws tho. Personally, I'd prefer to fit my BB7s as I know they work really well.