"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
02/19/2014 at 19:34 • Filed to: None
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"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
02/19/2014 at 19:34 • Filed to: None | 0
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I just placed an order at my local bike shop for a Specialized Allez E5 Smartweld frameset! Unfortunately it's on backorder and won't be here until early April. But hey I'm excited and I'm going to be ordering the rest of the components tonight!
DeltawingGothamDeserves
> Anon
02/19/2014 at 19:36 |
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Why does no one love mountain bikes here!?
Bad Idea Hat
> Anon
02/19/2014 at 19:36 |
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That looks like the Lambo of bike frames.
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Anon
> DeltawingGothamDeserves
02/19/2014 at 19:42 |
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I have a mountain bike too! I love her very much!
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DeltawingGothamDeserves
> Anon
02/19/2014 at 19:45 |
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Really? What do you have?
promoted by the color red
> DeltawingGothamDeserves
02/19/2014 at 19:47 |
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I've got one. It's what I commute on 70% of the time.
Patrick Frawley
> Anon
02/19/2014 at 19:54 |
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Don't leave us hanging. Shimano, Campy, or SRAM?
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Anon
> Patrick Frawley
02/19/2014 at 19:59 |
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I'm going with a Campy Veloce groupset with a Centaur crank!
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Anon
> DeltawingGothamDeserves
02/19/2014 at 20:14 |
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Specialized hardrock 29er disc with sram x3. Not the fastest bike in the world but it gets the job done.
Team6.1
> DeltawingGothamDeserves
02/19/2014 at 20:14 |
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And here I was, thinking I was the only one!
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Bad Idea Hat
02/19/2014 at 20:20 |
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Well, actually...
tromoly
> Anon
02/19/2014 at 20:28 |
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Smartweld? Really Specialized??? It's just TIG welded tubes that are internally flanged on each end, it's different from other people but it's still just TIG welded.
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Anon
> tromoly
02/19/2014 at 20:30 |
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I don't really care if they called it "super duper suck my dick trek weld" I just know that I like the way that it rides.
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tromoly
> Anon
02/19/2014 at 20:41 |
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If it rides well then get it, the ride is the #1 important part of a bicycle.
Let me explain my comment a little more. My brother and I are huge bike people, and he's worked at bike shops for 11 years now. The shop he used to be at is the #2 Specialized dealer in Illinois, so he knew everything about their bikes. A few years ago he moved to a different town and a different shop that deals with more specialty bikes (Salsa, Surly, Jones, Gunnar, etc...), and ever since then we've looked back at Specialized with a feeling of over-engineering and buzzwords galore. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved my old Specialized Enduro, it's just the buzzwords and "innovations" that make me laugh.
Saracen
> DeltawingGothamDeserves
02/19/2014 at 20:51 |
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I've got a mountain bike and a road bike.
GT Karakoram 2.0 29er...nice beefy frame now in need of better components.
Ridley Icarus SLS Apex.
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Anon
> tromoly
02/19/2014 at 20:55 |
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Oh yeah, I agree with you that it's not really innovative and a lot of specialized's marketing is aimed towards people that don't know too much about bikes. (However that could explain why they're so successful) However all the marketing BS aside, the smartweld does ride better than the normal Allez in my opinion, and rides like a slightly rougher and more communicative Tarmac.
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DeltawingGothamDeserves
> Anon
02/19/2014 at 20:58 |
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Everyone here has a bike from a brand I have never heard of, or they built it themselves. I just bought a Trek 3500... I feel Laaaame
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Anon
> DeltawingGothamDeserves
02/19/2014 at 21:08 |
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Well I think most people on here have either Felt, Trek, but a lot of people have Specialized bikes.
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Anon
> DeltawingGothamDeserves
02/19/2014 at 21:10 |
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Also building a bike yourself doesn't really make too much sense financially so I don't blame you. However I wanted a campagnolo groupset which you can't get on a stock bike.
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tromoly
> Anon
02/19/2014 at 21:54 |
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I can't say I've ridden one of their Aluminum road bikes, that I can remember anyways. The only road bike of theirs I remember riding was a Carbon Tri bike that weighed like 16 pounds, that thing was insane! It seriously accelerated even before hammering on the pedals, the $5k price tag was a little much for me to want one of my own but the ride was awesome.
puddler
> DeltawingGothamDeserves
02/19/2014 at 22:46 |
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i've got a giant rincon.