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| Deadpool |
Posted on 25-01-2009 14:26
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Listen, Smoothie, Trek and Specialized make pretty comparable products all along the line, except at the high end of road and mountain bikes. At the high end of the road, nothing compares to the Madone in terms of a perfect blending of comfort, lightness, and stiffness. The bike rides great, and with that 90 mm bottom bracket you know the bike has the stiffness you need to power up hills and the like. Also, the OCLV Carbon that Trek uses is much higher quality than any other Carbon on the market, and that is not up for debate. If you want me to I can spend three hours digging up all the research that has shown that.
As for Mountain Bikes, your right Specialized is better than Trek, but they are not better than Gary Fisher. Fisher has the most experience in the Mountain bike industry, and they always build great bikes. |
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 25-01-2009 14:35
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*yawns
this boring, mindless natter about two companies really doesn't interest me. Maybe you two should begin a new thread, such as "trek vs Specialized", as you're kinda going off the topic of "Your Cycling" when all you're doing is speiling a load of old cods-wallop
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 25-01-2009 14:53
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Agreed, I just made a new thread for it
Edited by Deadpool on 25-01-2009 14:55
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 25-01-2009 15:19
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Deadpool wrote:
Listen, Smoothie, Trek and Specialized make pretty comparable products all along the line, except at the high end of road and mountain bikes. At the high end of the road, nothing compares to the Madone in terms of a perfect blending of comfort, lightness, and stiffness. The bike rides great, and with that 90 mm bottom bracket you know the bike has the stiffness you need to power up hills and the like. Also, the OCLV Carbon that Trek uses is much higher quality than any other Carbon on the market, and that is not up for debate. If you want me to I can spend three hours digging up all the research that has shown that.
As for Mountain Bikes, your right Specialized is better than Trek, but they are not better than Gary Fisher. Fisher has the most experience in the Mountain bike industry, and they always build great bikes.
Dude, all carbon is OCLV... why trek make big deal out of it is a reason why i can't explain. Its only the 6.9 where you use Non-cosmetic carbon (The layed up criss cross carbon), Trek twists and bends carbon in ways that its not designed. Even Pinarello beat trek in stiffness and they uses the MOst bends. Your technologies are so outdated now. For god sake you didn't even use Compact frames till 2006. Also you are completely wrong with the Gary Fisher comment. The same people who poorly design Trek also do the same with Fisher. But they do it slightly better. Specialized have been established since 1974 and they have been creating the best mountain bikes since then. The Epic S-Works 2008 in its Debut year was the first Full Suspension mountain bike to win the World Cross Country mountain bike championships. If that doesnt stand for something then you are a bigger muppet than i thought 
Its nothing personally Deadpool i do enjoy debating this. Its going to be funny when you finally find something Trek does better than Specialized  |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 25-01-2009 15:25
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We have a new thread for this |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 26-01-2009 14:45
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Well that forecast rain never came yesterday. I was sat inside all day below grey clouds. Im not gonna risk it this week. Just gonna do some hard turbo sessions.
Also ive ordered my new components for my bike, problem is they are out of stock. Im going for PRO Vibe bars and stem. Cant wait to get them  So looking forward to riding my new bike. |
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Posted on 26-11-2024 00:41
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| ringo182 |
Posted on 26-01-2009 14:57
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just got my bianchi 928 of the top of my wardrobe and oiled it all down ready for the new season. Can't wait. need a nice dry day to get back out on it and get used to riding it again. |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 30-01-2009 05:44
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I am currently commiting what SMoothie would refer to as Sacrelige against all that is specialized. I am painting my Specialized shades. They are currently chrome/silver and I am going to be painting BMC on them
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 01-02-2009 00:11
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 01-02-2009 09:54
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i like, i want a road like it, pleaseee.
There's no point slapping a schleck - Sean Kelly on "Who needs a slap"
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 02-02-2009 05:00
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In 4 days of riding this week I got in just under 200 miles ad the weather has looked just like the picture above for all 200 of those miles
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 02-02-2009 07:54
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i did half the distance at a quarter of the temperature
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| ringo182 |
Posted on 02-02-2009 08:22
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it's no wonder britain rarely produces any world-class road cyclists. There's about 5 inches of snow on my road. how can we compete with the training regimes of people in spain, Italy and America. we have to spend pretty much 3 months of the year on a turbo trainer
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 02-02-2009 08:25
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its a problem that will forever haunt the riders of greenland (technically danish i think)
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 04-02-2009 03:03
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I may be getting some Mavic Cosmic Carbone Sl's. I can't see the difference between the Sl and the SLR's so I hink I'll save the money and go with the Sl's.
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 04-02-2009 07:35
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A little belated "Hello im back" ive just come back off holiday where i did some Cross Country mountain biking. Ill have some pictures and videos soon  |
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| Halvor |
Posted on 04-02-2009 07:56
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Lucky you... I'm stuck in 30 centimetres snow... No cycling for me. |
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 04-02-2009 08:02
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Well it was snowing while i was riding if thats any consolation. Plus i cant exactly go on the road either, snow has hit my area pretty bad. |
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| Xavier |
Posted on 04-02-2009 09:32
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i went for a ride with my mtb in the snow it was great, until the snow started melting.. |
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| Halvor |
Posted on 04-02-2009 09:57
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Is there any nice places to ride at the West Coast of Jutland? Not now, but in April I'm going there. |
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