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I'm curious...why do you go through so many bikes?
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I realize that in spite of my love for most things modern, my tastes in bikes are pretty old fashioned - all the steel bikes look great and the carbon ones look goofy. I am 100% sure they’re rocketships to ride but alas, I can’t get over their looks.
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I am on my third bike ever and honestly I am really impressed about how you can tell your bikes apart in terms of fit/ride quality. I never seem to be able to articulate that and honestly find it very hard to form an impression when test riding bikes. Kudos for your motivation to go through so many to find the ones that suit you the best
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Glad you passed on the Firefly !
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That's easy, because he can.. He saves me a lot of money watching most days, some days not so much...
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I love these year end summaries and really appreciate that you take the time to do them.
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Glad you are enjoying it!
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What I admire most about Dan’s process is his decisiveness. I would need a jumbo sized storage locker if so many grail bikes came through my door.
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Part of it too is that I read a lot about different bikes and bike bits, and get curious about trying different things. I also get distracted and lead into thinking I need a certain style of bike....gravel mostly...which has not in general resulted in anything productive or lasting. The only genre I haven't dabbled much in is the distance/rando and retro realms, which is a broad tent, and that's what has my interest piqued right now. I don't see a need to continue experimenting with pure road bikes at this point - the Sachs does what I want and adding another pure road bike would just be to fulfill desires (Kirk Onesto JKS and DiNucci) based on their craftsmanship, or to have something for banging about when traveling, when that's a thing again. And with all of those I'd just be staying in a narrow window around the fit and purpose of the Sachs. Anyway, if you take away the false starts, I only put real time on the Kirk MRB and the Seven this year, so I kinda feel like I had two bikes and the rest were just some form of a rental....with the payment being the time and money I spent buying/building/selling, which wasn't significant for any of them. I definitely spent more "new" money on bike clothes and gels than bikes this past year - everything else was mostly just recycling funds that have been dedicated to the bike column and refreshed when selling stuff after buying other stuff. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
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That's a lot of bike change in one year. So I would guess that with the primary bike sorted out now, you will get comfortable with that setup in all kinds of situations over the course of a year and start descending with ease. Is this right?
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I have benefited from Dan's love of bikes, he graciously lent me a speedvagen when I was in Portland to get fit for mine. Seems like it left his possession soon after. If I lived in the states and could fo ss Dan does. One in one out. I think I would, maybe not with the frequency but it would be fun. |
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It's interesting to see what you ended up with at the end of 2020 - something that is more traditional compared to the other bikes that moved through your ownership in the last year. Especially compared to the Pinarellos!
Given that they are essentially state-of-the-art, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts about the Pinarellos and how you came to choose an old-fashioned, steel, rim-brake bike over those. At this point, my newest carbon bike is 10 years old. Other than disc brakes and electronic shifting, I'm wondering if there's anything that I'm missing out on with the newer carbon options like the Pinarellos. Texbike |
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As for rim-brakes and mechanical groups - they just work. I don't have a use case for disc brakes that supersedes the value to me of a supple hand-built steel fork. And the tactile nature of Campy mechanical and the simplicity of it just can't be beat for the type of riding I do. There are use cases for both, certainly - just not for me, for my pure road-riding road bike. |
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