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- CommentAuthorjeremyHCD
- CommentTimeJul 11th 2012
Posted By: Replicantalu is FPP, throw down for carbon!
Hell Yeah!: CMT!, NickNewport, S. Felde
Hell No!: Ishmael
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeJul 12th 2012
Posted By: Replicantalu is supposed to be FPP... at that price, throw down for carbon!
I can almost guarantee you that most carbon bikes are cheaper to make, but I did have a sticker that stated the FPP disclaimer on my CAAD for a bit.
- CommentAuthorhuey
- CommentTimeJul 12th 2012
Did you actually prefer the CAAD-10 to your SL4. Can't tell if you're trollin or not.
Hell Yeah!: S. Felde
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeJul 12th 2012
Yes, I do.

They're honestly not that different of bikes. The CAAD10 has better geo for me and feels a bit more stiff. Its a bit more harsh, but not much really. I also thought that the internal routing, bb guide, and rear brake guide on the SL4 were poorly designed/thought out and it was kind of annoying. Lots of little things really, but in the end I love both and would be happy with either. My preference is basically based on the fact that I notice so little ride quality wise that I appreciate the better fit/geo and the more responsive feel.
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeJul 12th 2012 edited
Carbon > aluminum. Sry.

And yes I've tried plenty of both.
- CommentAuthorLeProf
- CommentTimeJul 12th 2012
Posted By: ScottAnd yes I've tried plenty of both.

So bi.
Hell Yeah!: huey, NickNewport, x-ray, Replicant
Fuck happnd?
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeJul 12th 2012
Posted By: ZigZag
Posted By: Ishmaelthey will make 50 and sell 50 at their asking price, thats a success in my book...?

death by strava

So Specialized is basically Nike now? Limited=good in the mind of retarded hypebeasts.Hella deeznuts
Corporate bikes.
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2012
Posted By: ScottCarbon > aluminum. Sry.

And yes I've tried plenty of both.Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me, maybe?

A high end AL bike is better than a medium range carbon bike. There's a reason Nibali and Sagan train on rebranded CAAD10's. With that being said high end is typically high end and comes down to rider preference. I just happen to think that after working at a Specialized dealer that the return on investment is low with anything but the S-Works and maybe the SL4. After seeing lots of busted frames come through the shop I actually got to look into the tubes and they did a piss poor job (mainly on Venges and SL3s) of removing pieces of the air bladders, excess epoxy, and cleaning up the tubes of their frames. Just shows rushed worksmanship, but I still loved my SL3.

I'm not saying AL is king, just that a well-made frame is a well-made frame and they're all pretty damn close these days so it comes down to preference in the end.

Scott- which high end AL race bike have you ridden/raced on for a significant amount of time? State Bikes does not count, sorry.
Hell Yeah!: Freddie
- CommentAuthorFreddie
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2012
my aluminum bmc (before i cracked it) rode a ton better than my chinarello and my argon. but then again they both sucked-_-
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2012
Posted By: Freddiemy aluminum bmc (before i cracked it) rode a ton better than my chinarello and my argon that I bought used, stripped, and painted. but then again they both sucked

Key details right there in bold.
- CommentAuthorFreddie
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2012
chinarello wasn't terrible for a cheapo frame. argon was just stupid haha-_-
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2012 edited
Posted By: K Dub
Posted By: ScottCarbon > aluminum. Sry.

And yes I've tried plenty of both.Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me, maybe?

A high end AL bike is better than a medium range carbon bike. There's a reason Nibali and Sagan train on rebranded CAAD10's. With that being said high end is typically high end and comes down to rider preference. I just happen to think that after working at a Specialized dealer that the return on investment is low with anything but the S-Works and maybe the SL4. After seeing lots of busted frames come through the shop I actually got to look into the tubes and they did a piss poor job (mainly on Venges and SL3s) of removing pieces of the air bladders, excess epoxy, and cleaning up the tubes of their frames. Just shows rushed worksmanship, but I still loved my SL3.

I'm not saying AL is king, just that a well-made frame is a well-made frame and they're all pretty damn close these days so it comes down to preference in the end.

Scott- which high end AL race bike have you ridden/raced on for a significant amount of time? State Bikes does not count, sorry.
Hell Yeah!:Freddie
According to Scott's signature, I do not belong here.
State bikes are steel.

Posted By: K Dub
Posted By: ScottCarbon > aluminum. Sry.

And yes I've tried plenty of both.Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me, maybe?

With that being said [...] comes down to rider preference.
Hell Yeah!:Freddie
According to Scott's signature, I do not belong here.
Shitty paraphrasing but exactly!!
- CommentAuthorjeremyHCD
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2012
zzZzzzzZZzzboring. dgaf. ride whatever you want. gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit. and no one in this thread is an expert by any means on either material.
Hell Yeah!: StPaul, NickNewport, S. Felde, Freddie
- CommentAuthorZigZag
- CommentTimeJul 13th 2012
Posted By: Scott
Posted By: ZigZag
Posted By: Ishmaelthey will make 50 and sell 50 at their asking price, thats a success in my book...?

death by strava

So Specialized is basically Nike now? Limited=good in the mind of retarded hypebeasts.Hella deeznuts
Corporate bikes.Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me, maybe?

Commodity fetishist
Hell Yeah!: Transition3
Hella deeznuts
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2012
Jeremy- you're clearly wrong. Homeboy in the mtb thread gave us a NASA report on carbon fiber technologies so convincing that there can be no other bike material.
- CommentAuthorTransition3
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012
I am not bald, my hair is living in Reseda
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2012
Hell Yeah!: CMT!, Cyborg, NickNewport
- CommentAuthorct
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2012
that chainring is f'n huge
- CommentAuthorwaverley
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2012
^^ dialedYou down with O.P.P.?
- CommentAuthorErin
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2012
not gonna be a naysayer, but not the first concept with a zipp wheelset and similar build kit to be floating around the interwebz. jussayin
Hell Yeah!: Replicant
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2012
Posted By: ctthat chainring is f'n huge
They must be SOFAZT
Hell Yeah!: NickNewport
- CommentAuthor2fast2francis
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2012 edited
Posted By: Erinnot gonna be a naysayer, but not the first concept with a zipp wheelset and similar build kit to be floating around the interwebz. jussayin

Not to be technical but that's not a Concept. It's a D2 Pista with a Concept's fork.

Green Jacket, Gold Jacket
- CommentAuthorNickNewport
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2012
Gold jacket, Green jacket*"You KOM every bar in town." -Scott
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2012
And the shit is actually ridden on the track. Big old donkey dick 35mm bars and shit.
Hell Yeah!: S. Felde, B-Hard
- CommentAuthorx-ray
- CommentTimeJul 26th 2012
dat ringGive an Engineer an inch, and they'll measure it.
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeJul 26th 2012
Disks on disks
- CommentAuthorjoe.ramus
- CommentTimeJul 27th 2012
Posted By: Erinnot gonna be a naysayer, but not the first concept with a zipp wheelset and similar build kit to be floating around the interwebz. jussayin
Hell Yeah!:Replicant

Erin, you should consult your know it all boyfriend before making dumb comments on here.
Hell Yeah!: S. Felde, B-Hard, adamo, Freddie
my last name is Gill, not Ramus.
- CommentAuthorburbs
- CommentTimeJul 27th 2012 edited
yeah seriouslysorry kdub. this better?
- CommentAuthorAutoBahnMon
- CommentTimeAug 3rd 2012 edited
Specialized langster pro... Noice!

Hell Yeah!: K Dub, Replicant
Hell No!: CMT!
- CommentAuthor2fast2francis
- CommentTimeAug 3rd 2012
Lose that back tire and we'll talk :-/

Haha, nice S-Works sticker!
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeAug 3rd 2012
^ Not a sticker. Thats the real deal. Stoked they finally stepped it up.
- CommentAuthor2fast2francis
- CommentTimeAug 3rd 2012 edited
- CommentAuthorkwest
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012 edited
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
Neg stems look sick, but for some reason they look super weird on small bikes.
- CommentAuthorSuicideKing
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
That bike looks crazy light.SKFrames ...what i do with my free time
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
pshh posing off the Dub rig, what a sucker.
Hell Yeah!: L1L'Dr3aMeR
- CommentAuthorDobber
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
it must be weird having your hands right next to the front wheel when you get in the drops.So cold in the T.
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
something tells me he probably never uses them, like most people on slamthatstem.com
Hell Yeah!: huey, S. Felde
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012 edited
Even a lot of the pros look super uncomfortable and ride the hoods in a fixie style way. Too gnarly. Wondering what's going to happen after the GB boner stems... Raise that stem?
- CommentAuthorAutoBahnMon
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
Posted By: ScottEven a lot of the pros look super uncomfortable and ride the hoods in a fixie style way. Too gnarly. Wondering what's going to happen after the GB boner stems... Raise that stem?Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me, maybe?

Enlighten me... whats a 'GB Boner stem'
- CommentAuthorZigZag
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
Great Britain's Olympic cycling team had very bizarre cockpits with positive rise stems.Hella deeznuts
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
Posted By: ScottEven a lot of the pros look super uncomfortable and ride the hoods in a fixie style way. Too gnarly. Wondering what's going to happen after the GB boner stems... Raise that stem?Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me, maybe?

Its more aero and stiffer actually. They only made a few size runs of the frames and since they were also for the track they had to have super small headtubes. They also claim somehow that using a 1 inch steerer with a short headtube is more aero somehow although it didn't really look like that massive bulge would be.

I honestly think the only reason they rode them was to justify the cost of the program to some auditor that wanted to know wtf happened to all those bike frames that were $30k a piece.
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeAug 5th 2012 edited
The track and road frames were the same? Same geo? The small head tube was a little weird with wiggins. He looked like the tall guy in a small car from the Simpsons.
- CommentAuthorK Dub
- CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
Same geo, different forks and they drilled for brakes.
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
Crazy.
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
Why do I like this so much?

http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/earlylaunch/tricross/tricrosscompdisccompact
- CommentAuthorZigZag
- CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
Cuz it's fixie?Hella deeznuts
- CommentAuthorS. Felde
- CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
It's JHCD if anything. Just cool to see a company not plaster their logo everywhere. Even the stem is just black.
Hell Yeah!: jeremyHCD
- CommentAuthorTransition3
- CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
Didn't I say that disc would never happen?I am not bald, my hair is living in Reseda
- CommentAuthorjeremyHCD
- CommentTimeAug 6th 2012
Posted By: ScottIt's JHCD if anything. Just cool to see a company not plaster their logo everywhere. Even the stem is just black.
Hell Yeah!:jeremyHCD
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me, maybe?

I LOVE IT!!! :D

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