I have been waiting to see new aero roadie offerings for 2010
hope someone comes up with something better - they have to be kidding me with the seat stays
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I’ve been riding one for about 3 weeks now, I’m slanted in my judgement but I think it works pretty good. Super stiff for climbing and descends very stable. Is it aero? I think so, it reacts the same in crosswinds as other “aero” frames I’ve ridden, I’ll be taking it with me to the tunnel in November to run it against a couple of other road frames. It won’t beat a P-4 but from earlier testing, it will do better than one might think, there are a couple of heavily marketed aero tri frames that it will trash in airflow management.
I look forward to the results - I think aero roadies are going to be a big market, I am surprised though that it is going to the tunnel in November - I thought it would have been in the tunnel during development.
Any way - I guess that means in November you could tell us what the most aero roadie is…
Interesting that they went for externally routed cabling. I thought even non-aero frames were going for internal.
Mr. Cobb didn’t say that the bike hasn’t been in the tunnel yet - he’s saying that HE hasn’t had it in the tunnel yet.
During the frame development I took different models to test in the tunnel. I did some of the shapes on my flow bench here at my house and will be able to test a production model in November. Wood and foam models are hard to ride. We went with external cables because the tour mechanics like the ease of service, these are road bikes. The shape of the down tube mask the cables and I seriously do not think there would be an advantage in this case to have internal cable routing.