Bicycling Magazine looks at our Strada Bianca, struggles to understand steel, fenders, and the joys of riding dirt roads. October issue probably includes five things you can do to ride faster - would not quantifying every ride count? Hampsten boys reported nonplussed, decide current marketing plan roaring success.
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His test ride (how long was it, 22 miles??) was 18 minutes slower. Surely this is entirely because your Mack truck sucks worse than Minnesota mosquitoes in May!
Wow, the test rider used a 50-11 coming down out of the mountains into Durango. He must be a really amazing rider. I'll bet HE could have won the Giro in 1988 if only an "ultralight Italian" racing bike had been available to him back then.
Obviously Hampsten fails to understand that cycling is no longer about scenery, camaraderie, and finding the country store down the dirt lane that time forgot. Rather, we ride our bikes to do whatever our GPS and power meter tell us to do, and we depend on engineers to determine the fewest spokes needed to withstand our 200-watt sprints.
:) Nyah, maybe we should cut the reviewer a break. He probably looked up the translation of "Strada Bianca" and is still wondering why anyone would design a bike just to ride on the painted white road lines ....