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03-05-2024, 05:12 AM
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Woah that bishop! Clears 40s!
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03-05-2024, 06:52 AM
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Finally got this bike off the rack to start this season in the last few days. 6+ months of only riding my mountain bike is a big reminder how hard road riding feels compared to mountain biking, and especially anything in the gym though.
So glad I got this right at the end (2016) before things got crazy. I am not sure there is any bike that lost it's way in the last years like the Domane. Mine is just under 17lbs (500 series OCLV) with mechanical Ultegra, no carbon wheels, and rim brakes. It blows my mind that in the subsequent two generations you would now have to spend $10,000+ to get 900 series OCLV, carbon wheels, and Dura Ace Di2 to match this weight. Also glad I bought the frameset as Trek has almost never offered this bike with 53/39 rings, and some of the new ones don't even support full size go-fast rings! It also seems like a lot of the complication and extra weight with the later ones was an engineering solution to problems with the fork design caused by disc brakes making this fork design no longer tenable. 8 years old and the white carbon looks a lot older than if I'd gotten black, but the black frameset that year was only 600 series OCLV, which was +$2000. Got new shoes over the winter and am using different insoles so there is a little bit of adjustment but overall it felt like home. The new setup has me able to lower my saddle height which is great. May need to lower the bars as a result too. Not sure why but I have never felt like using tires bigger than 26c. Perhaps to make up for that I have huge tires on all my other bikes?
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#453
03-05-2024, 07:52 AM
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While I am beginning to reluctantly concede that my next bike will have disc brakes whether I want them or not, I'm pretty confident that these two rim brake bikes will never be obsolete and never leave my possession until I'm dead:
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03-16-2024, 02:07 PM
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I’m six months late to the party, but seeing Mike V’s stable with those Shamals and Ventos reminded me what I love from that era.
This ‘96 Bianchi was my one and only for 25 years. Hopefully we can both say we aged gracefully together with a higher bar position and compact crank modifications to accommodate the aging body.
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#459
03-21-2024, 07:33 AM
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Another MXXXXXO - 2014, built for me. I often ride a chinese CFK gravel bike with discs these days, but this one is a keeper, needless to say. Rim brakes are Mavic SSCs.
Pic taken at the Texas summit, Kaiserstuhl, Baden, Germany (yes that really is its name!) 
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Jeremy Clarksons bike-riding cousin Last edited by martl; 03-21-2024 at 07:36 AM.
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#460
03-21-2024, 09:13 PM
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03-22-2024, 06:05 AM
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My three road bikes and a few other rim brake bikes I had last season!
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#463
03-22-2024, 07:35 AM
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I realize I will get demerits because I need a riser stem to fit my old bod on this short head tube, but still, this bike is close to peak rim brake IMO. 6 kg with pedals, cages, and mounts. The combination of a smooth ride and BB stiffness amazes this old retrogrouch. Sharp handling too. I only have a few hundred miles on it, but looking forward to many more. I have a 46-30 spiderring on order so I can take it off of Martha's Vineyard, where a 1x drivetrain on a light bike is workable for me, but I think I'd struggle with a 44/36 low gear in NH and VT.
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03-22-2024, 11:41 AM
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 PS: I wouldn't just say peak rim but peak cycling. That configuration is as classically beautiful as can be yet it is also nice & light + functional IMHO
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