How about that debate final night time, huh? Let’s discuss it!
Simply kidding.
No, as a cantankerous outdated fusspot I’ve been preoccupied with one factor and one factor solely, and that’s the discharge of the brand new Rivendell singlespeed:
[Photo: Rivendell]
Although the biking media is much extra its actual reverse, the brand new Trek Madone, which is probably the most Madoniest Madone that Trek has ever Madoned:
How far more Madoney is it? EIGHTY FUCKING PERCENT, that’s how a lot!
So should you’re driving an outdated, out of date Madone–or, heaven enable you, a motorbike that’s not a Madone in any respect–you’re little doubt feeling extraordinarily anxious proper now:
However there’s excellent news! After totally skimming the evaluation, I’ve realized one thing mind-blowing, which is that the true motive the brand new Madone is quicker is principally simply the water bottles:
Sure, that’s proper, simply put the brand new bottles on the outdated bike and the outdated bike is quicker:
And sure, the brand new bottle is UCI-legal:
It’s because it handed the UCI’s notoriously stringent influence take a look at:
Simply think about how far more precisely Cipollini might have thrown these bottles if solely he’d had entry to Trek’s cutting-edge expertise.
Anyway, you would possibly assume Trek goes to be in bother when Freds determine that they don’t want the brand new Madone and may get the identical impact with only a new set of water bottles. Hardly! In actual fact, it is a stroke of promoting genius on their half, as a result of not solely have the discovered the way to cost $100 for a single water bottle and cage:
However they’ll most likely promote so lots of them that even when they don’t transfer a single new Madone they’ll nonetheless come out forward. In case you’ve ever spent any time in a motorbike store, you already know it takes hours, days, and even weeks of pandering to fickle roadies to be able to get them to purchase a motorbike. Nevertheless, it takes about 9 seconds to promote a water bottle. So it wouldn’t shock me within the least if Trek has designed the brand new Madone completely as a showcase for the brand new bottle and considers any gross sales of the particular bike to be merely a bonus.
That is nice information for the buyer, too, as a result of for simply the worth of a pair of Trek’s new water bottles you can too get a complete used Trek to place them on, and it’ll most likely be simply as quick as the brand new Madone:
I ponder how briskly the Roaduno could be with the brand new Trek bottles.
I could must ebook a while within the wind tunnel:
Who says you’ll be able to’t get “sofa-like trip qualities” together with aerodynamics?
