How about that debate final night time, huh? Let’s speak about 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No, as a cantankerous outdated fusspot I’ve been preoccupied with one factor and one factor solely, and that’s the discharge of the brand new Rivendell singlespeed:
Although the biking media is much extra its precise reverse, the brand new Trek Madone, which is essentially the most Madoniest Madone that Trek has ever Madoned:
How rather more Madoney is it? EIGHTY FUCKING PERCENT, that’s how a lot!
So for those who’re driving an outdated, out of date Madone–or, heaven aid you, a motorbike that’s not a Madone in any respect–you’re little doubt feeling extraordinarily anxious proper now:
However there’s excellent news! After completely skimming the overview, I’ve realized one thing mind-blowing, which is that the actual motive the brand new Madone is quicker is mainly 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Sure, that’s proper, simply put the brand new bottles on the outdated bike and the outdated bike is quicker: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’s because it handed the UCI’s notoriously stringent impression take a look at:
Simply think about how rather more precisely Cipollini may have thrown these bottles if solely he’d had entry to Trek’s cutting-edge expertise.
Anyway, you would possibly assume Trek goes to be in bother 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! In truth, it is a stroke of promoting genius on their half, as a result of not solely have the found out methods to cost $100 for a single water bottle and cage:
However they’ll most likely promote so a lot 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 motorbike store, it takes hours, days, and even weeks of pandering to fickle roadies in an effort to get them to purchase a motorbike. 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 solely 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 patron, too, as a result of for simply the worth of a pair of Trek’s new water bottles you may as well get a complete used Trek to place them on, and it’ll most likely be simply as quick as the brand new Madone:
I’m wondering how briskly the Roaduno could be with the brand new Trek bottles.
I’ll need to e book a while within the wind tunnel:
Who says you’ll be able to’t get “sofa-like experience qualities” together with aerodynamics?
