This covers it perfectly, you may as well close the thread now.It's up to you. Stuff anyone else's opinion.
He’s not cool enough, I agree.Buy whatever bike you want, but not a Specialized obviously.
Your mate would p1ss himself if he saw me on my Cervelo R5........and it wouldn’t bother me one jot
(I’m 61, overweight, look stupid in Lycra, wheeze when riding up anything steeper than a 5% incline, average 13 mph and just love cycling).
Get your new bike and have fun.
LOL I think I might just do thatGet BC silver cover for a year and that will get you a temporary race licence . Its worth the money just to shut the idiot up