What is the industry standard road bike then?

[Bigtallfatbloke]

Give me a late 80's Ibanez anyday!!

I have an early 80,s RG570 all modified and it kicks ass...but I still ride my strats!

i'm no guitar expert but aren't gibson better? i.e the gibson's like the merc whereas a strat being a ford mondeo - good, but standard?

No

 

[Kirstie]

Industry standard road bike is a specialized of some kind - whatever they call them nowadays.

 

[NickM]

Industry standard road bike is a specialized of some kind - whatever they call them nowadays.

I would have said a Giant TCR, at least since Specialized put those weird elastomer bits in their frames

 

[Kirstie]

I would have said a Giant TCR, at least since Specialized put those weird elastomer bits in their frames

Have they? Do you mean on the forks? I just thought those were for the brake bosses or something. I don't think they are for suspension or anything...

 

[cchapman]

Ornette Colman played a plastic saxophone, I guess it's the singer, not the song.

 

[fossyant]

Proper road bike is....

Arse up, head down, flat back.......

Like Frank

Or maybe a Colnago....... traditional, no wavey rubbish....... or a Rourke 953........hubba hubba

 

[NickM]

Have they? Do you mean on the forks? I just thought those were for the brake bosses or something. I don't think they are for suspension or anything...

"Zertz", they call them. Only on the Roubaix (i.e. "sportive") line. Still, the very idea of putting bits in a frame which will deteriorate with age, rendering the whole thing useless - tsk,tsk...

 

[rich p]

Pinarelllo Prince

Did you see Russell Downing's Valverde one in The Comic last week? It's a bit of a Jackson Pollock IMHO

 

[Keith Oates]

C50 with Dura Ace is my dream bike, but back to the OP, Giant TCR is a very good bench mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MichaelM]

I am a guitarist, I play a Fender stratocaster. This type of guitar is THE industry standard electric guitar. It suits all musical genres, is robust, interchangeable (necks/components) is available and serviceable anywhere in the world and as cool as hell.

What roadbike is the Fender stratocaster of Cycling?

Strat=Clapton
Clapton=Lance
Lance=Trek

First you must Free Your Mind. Only then shall ye find the way.

 

[Keith Oates]

Spesh Allez surely?

How can a C50 be "industry standard"? Are ferraris rep-mobiles these days?

<C50 with Dura Ace is my dream bike, but back to the OP, Giant TCR is a very good bench mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>

Now read it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Aperitif]

And if you were thinking kindly of me smeggers - please do!
I would have no idea of people's preferences with guitars of the road - but I think it might be equivalent to strumming a Colnago - a classic name with a number of preferences contained within.
But it wouldn't be a Specialized - much as I like their stuff!

 

[Keith Oates]

Sorry not you Keith, was thinkin of this.

OK, it's my mix up as well, but at least we are now clear and no harm done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!