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No, as a cantankerous outdated fusspot I’ve been preoccupied with one factor and one factor solely, and that’s the discharge of the brand new Rivendell singlespeed: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 way extra its actual reverse, the brand new Trek Madone, which is essentially the most Madoniest Madone that Trek has ever Madoned:
How way more Madoney is it? EIGHTY FUCKING PERCENT, that’s how a lot!
So if you happen to’re driving an outdated, out of date Madone–or, heaven enable you to, a motorcycle that’s not a Madone in any respect–you’re little question feeling extraordinarily anxious proper now: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Sure, that’s proper, simply put the brand new bottles on the outdated bike and the outdated bike is quicker: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 is because it handed the UCI’s notoriously stringent influence take a look at:
Simply think about how way more precisely Cipollini may have thrown these bottles if solely he’d had entry to Trek’s cutting-edge know-how.
Anyway, you would possibly assume Trek goes to be in hassle when Freds work out that they don’t want the brand new Madone and may get the identical impact with only a new set of water bottles. Hardly! The truth is, it is a stroke of selling genius on their half, as a result of not solely have the discovered how one can cost $100 for a single water bottle and cage:
However they’ll in all probability promote so lots of them that even when they don’t transfer a single new Madone they’ll nonetheless come out forward. Should you’ve ever spent any time in a motorcycle store, it takes hours, days, and even weeks of pandering to fickle roadies so as to get them to purchase a motorcycle. Nonetheless, 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 totally 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 even get a whole used Trek to place them on, and it’ll in all probability be simply as quick as the brand new Madone:
I ponder how briskly the Roaduno can be with the brand new Trek bottles.
I’ll need to e book a while within the wind tunnel:
Who says you may’t get “sofa-like experience qualities” together with aerodynamics?
