Well Peter I used to think the same of my 21 pound Roberts. And it does well on the flats. But in the hills the Ti and Carbon bikes drop me like a rock. But the Roberts wins on style points. C'est la Vie!
Rob Dayton
Charlotte, NC
USA
> My favourite example of this has to be the story (so silly it has
\r?\n> to be
\r?\n> true) that Raleigh began to saw off the mudguard stay eyelets off
\r?\n> Professionals shipped to the States when word got back to them
\r?\n> that we
\r?\n> Yanks were taking hacksaws to these mysterious things to "save
\r?\n> weight".Yikes. But no worse than the pile of alloy pellets left on
\r?\n> the garage fl
\r?\n> oor
\r?\n> from bods with electric drills perforating their chain rings.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> By the way, weight weenieism remains alive and well. It's the
\r?\n> penis size
\r?\n> in
\r?\n> cycling. Often when I am keeping pace on my PX-10 with some guy on his
\r?\n> carbon fibre Serotta or whatever, he'll be astonished when I tell
\r?\n> him it
\r?\n> weighs 21 pounds. Suddenly that old fashioned thing seems, well...
\r?\n> like a
\r?\n> real racing bike! And... it still has mudguard eyelets intact, thank
\r?\n> s very
\r?\n> much.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Peter Kohler
\r?\n> Washington DC USA
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