Concor seem too narrow now. Good for climbing and sprints, but got right up my butt after 5-6 hours. Plus I’m getting old and fat. And slow.
How to turn a 3 hour ride into a 5 hour ride? Wait 20 years
Why wouldn’t you just buy a dead flat Fizik Arione with carbon rails on an expensive bike, refuse to ever wear cycling shorts and then never ride it?
That’s me all over 
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Which bike is the most lustworthy?
- Pinarello Dogma
- Cervelo S5
- Colnago C68
- Flying Pigeon PA-02
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Oh there’s gotta be more options than that 
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I must admit my #bikeporn searching has skewed towards the Scott Addict Pro lately. I’m probably watching too much Safa Brian youtube videos. Although I certainly would not kick a Dogma or C68 out of bed
I’ve been watching that mad English engineer guy on YT, Hambuni He rubbishes most of the Italian frames due to poor quality control. Winspace is the best bargain out there he says.
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Do you have a particular model you’d like to confess to eyeing up? 
We’ve all had those moments, bike shop website on the phone while having a private moment, forget to close the browser before locking and then unlock the phone during a meeting and the knees go weak.
Um, do you need hand cream and a box of tissues for these private moments? At work, or ‘working from home’?
and no, I’m not so keen on most modern European bikes. Maybe a Wilier? Nor modern North American bikes (USA and Canada, for the purists out there). they are almost all made in China anyway… another reason not to buy.
Winspace. Check out the reviews.
Pig mats, more like.
Agree on the latter, and the former to an extent. The Colnago C64 was nice, actually made in Italy and not plastered with the “realizzato a mano in italia” thing on it that the C68 has, also they’ve removed all the lugging and classically Colnago stuff on it, I’ve read it’s actually made in Taiwan too anyway so it’s a bit suspect but I could be wrong on it. I’m also not a big fan of the whole “integrated cockpit” thing, although they make for pretty photos of the bikes when they are not moving - how my bikes spend most of their time.
I gather you are into more 90s and earlier classic frames - saw a really nice Colner for sale a few weeks ago for 110GBP, should have snipped it up - i love how they look with the old style drop bars but they just don’t fit my riding style 
Edit: apologies for the ramble
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What these vintage chromalloy road bike’s like to ride?
I always had cromalloy mountain bikes in the 80’s specialized, Kona, then bought Muddy Fox Aluminium early addition to aluminium mountain bikes.
The difference was amazing in a good way, smoother and felt more rigid and lighter so manoeuvrability improved.
Now I ride road bike carbon Aster, not the top brand on a buyers list, frame style similar to winspace T1500. I find the Aster very rigid, I guessing better than Ally frame on a road bike?
I guess the feel of an old steel bike (a light one made of good tubing, not a gas-pipe bikeboom special) is one of compliance as you ride over small road imperfections. Enough stiffness for hard riding, but they had a great buzz to them and were fine to ride all day.
Aluminium road frames were too stiff, as the tubes were so wide, without the road-soaking feel of modern carbon frames or the old steel bikes. But then I guess that modern carbon frames are stiff as all hell were it not for the skinny (and hopefully well-designed) seat stays in the rear and better forks.
I doubt that steel frames would ever hold the kind of side loads from massive thighs that a new carbon frame can. I do remember bending the rear wheel left and right during climbs. Nowadays I just can’t push so hard for so long. I also use much wider tires these days (23-25 mm ) which also changes the feel a lot, even on the steel frames. I remember pushing 20-22 mm tires around … lolz!
never ridden titanium frame so i can’t comment. I guess that they would be dimensionally similar to steel, so have similar damping and stiffness.
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Update?!
Has your frame arrived?
Ah, there’s a teaser photo in “How was your ride today?”
Still waiting for some miscellaneous bits and bobs like brake mounting bolts and so on.
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Very nice
Also very nice. That one looks a bit swole, a bit like bodybuilders at the gym that I try to stop staring at, but I can’t.
Prefer the Parlee personally, but with rim brakes, and without the “Parlee” outline label on the downtube that you can barely see.
Who you calling fussy? Me?! 
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I was thinking about choosing the rim brake version, but at this point, I’d be looking at the Parlee as my last carbon bike, stowing the Sworks SL6 rim brake and moving to titanium rim.
What’s the reason behind the preference towards Titanium?
Do you keep your bikes, or sell them when you’re done?
I’ll admit I’ve become a bit of a hoarder - I need to do something about my fleet. (6)
Will probably get to the point where comfort will trump speed. However, I do know steel also has it’s benefits as well vs carbon.
If there’s a similar bike that is replacing it, I sell. Mostly due to available space in the house and having to manage more than two bikes it’s a bit of a doozy. I honestly don’t know how you guys do it.
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At the moment I rent a container.
Fucking stupid.
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