Do you lot just drive them around country lanes and show them the sites
They’re summer bikes and should only ever be used on dry, clean roads when the sun is shining. There are other bikes for when conditions aren’t up to scratch 🙂
They’re summer bikes and should only ever be used on dry, clean roads when the sun is shining. There are other bikes for when conditions aren’t up to scratch
Nah. Summer’s often rubbish, and clean roads are dull.
Old photo, now sporting a different saddle and a 52/36 chainset but otherwise the same…
Had it 2 years now though, feeling the time for a change… Which brings me to…
Borrowed the one on the right for a couple of weeks earlier this year, and loved it! The one on the left belongs to a good customer of mine. Just had some boxes containing a full SRAM Red eTap groupset arrive yesterday too, and the itch for a new bike to put it on needs scratching!
THat’s awesome, love the slammed back end. And the best chainset Shimano ever made. Could do with about another 20mm on the stem for aesthetic balance, but apart from that…..
it’s more a dry weather bike than a “summer” bike, not that I don’t want it getting wet but the locals like to increase their “drive like a cock” factor to 1000+ when it rains.
2011 Lapierre Xelius (if it wasn’t obvious from the logos on every surface….). And the angle of pic hasn’t done it any favours (though I do have my valves and logos aligned, the logos set at the bottom and the chain on the Big Dog for the pic 😉 ). Unfashionable 6700 with even more unfashionable standard chainset. I bought a compact 2 years ago and still haven’t used it, will probably fit it before the Dolomites trip this summer.
Now has a black saddle (San Marco Spid which I prefer to the Fizik).
Shown with sub 1300grm LB wheels, often sports some USE 4.5 carbons too. Toyed with getting something more ‘special’ but it is a competitive weight (bikeradar weighed the bare frame from the next size up as ~950grm) and more importantly I love the handling. Which is why I keep treating it to pimpy carbon wheels…
This didn’t start off as a summer bike, and has done 8 years of year-round training, racing and communting (it’s done more kms than my car which is a couple of years older…), but after having a rusted seat stay replaced I’ve bought a lousy weather bike. There might be an Orca on the way too, so the old dear might finally be relegated to those balmy summer days which I perhaps envisioned when I first saw it…
Joint winners are the c40 and the one with the corimas on the second page.
And OP don’t listen to anybody who tells you your bike doesn’t fit or you’ve got too much post out, you obviously just like your road bike to fit like a road bike and not a Jones mountain bike like those chaps.