Liaman wrote:
Perhaps not quite the information that you are looking for but I currently ride a Ribble road frame and am really happy with it.
I've got the sportive bianco (has since been updated and renamed the Azzuro).
It's stiff and climbs really well, and the carbon soaks up the road surprisingly well.
As an anecdotal data point - a riding buddy of mine has a mid range mad one and we switched for the day to see how the different bikes felt (switched saddles and set eachothers bikes up first). Afterwards he said that he'd secretly been expecting for my frame to be noticeably worse than his (he paid double what I did) but was really pleasantly surprised by how nice it was. I would say that his Madone was marginally nicer to ride, but I mean marginally.
Almost exactly what I was looking for. With the exception that I'll be on a Alloy TT frame. But close enough. I emailed the company hoping to get a few specifics on the bike, like if it comes with a seat post and fork. Either way for the money I don't see any legit way of beating the deal, low risk high reward. As long as it goes fast and doesn't fall apart I'm cool.
I still lapped everyone on the couch!
