2007 Special-Ed, Specialized

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_2007_road

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

At first I was going to protest... then I saw the article. Those wheels are
atrocious.
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Phil Lee, Squid

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Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

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2007_roa d

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

Thanks for pointing this out. I am ROTFLMAO!

Nice NASCAR look there, and love the brake lever placement. Good grief,
bikes are getting "stupider" every year and Specialized seems to be
leading the charge. It is a sure sign of intellectual bankruptcy when
the new bike is nothing more than a series of gimmicks strung together
to sell to a gullible public.

I really look forward to somebody needing to buy new spokes for one of
those wheels in about five years.

Tim McNamara said:

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Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_
2007_roa d

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

Thanks for pointing this out. I am ROTFLMAO!

Nice NASCAR look there, and love the brake lever placement. Good grief,
bikes are getting "stupider" every year and Specialized seems to be
leading the charge. It is a sure sign of intellectual bankruptcy when
the new bike is nothing more than a series of gimmicks strung together
to sell to a gullible public.

I really look forward to somebody needing to buy new spokes for one of
those wheels in about five years.

It won't take that long for the wheels to make problems IMO. The
double-threaded spokes are screwed straight into the fingers of those
absurd aluminum hub flanges. I'm figuring that the first threads will
pull out in a few months of enthusiastic riding.
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Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_2007_road

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

A friend of mine has glasses with those lenses that change darkness
from that company and loves them.

JT

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Tim McNamara said:

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Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_
2007_roa d

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

Thanks for pointing this out. I am ROTFLMAO!

Nice NASCAR look there, and love the brake lever placement.

I think that can be changed. But it's a pretty common racing position
as it's shown.

JT

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Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_2007_road

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

I love it. After spending some time with that article, I got reinforced
in my lack of desire for a new bike. I'm perfectly content with my 'old'
Specialized in all aluminum. Old S-Works works for me.

-paul

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si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_2007_roa
d

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

New marketing slogan for Specialized product: 'Specialized: Redefining
Ugliness'. I'm curious to hear the psuedo-scientific performance
related rationale for the arched top tubes.

And the new wheels!! The hoops of my beater, with tennis balls wedged
in the spokes, are hipper.

To complete their caricature of bicycle esthetics, Specialized should
round out the ensemble by hanging one of these
[http://www.bullsballs.com/brass/truck/balls.html]
from under the seat -- in carbon fiber, of course.

Luke

Luke said:

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si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_2007_roa
d

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

New marketing slogan for Specialized product: 'Specialized: Redefining
Ugliness'. I'm curious to hear the psuedo-scientific performance
related rationale for the arched top tubes.

The old balloon tire cruiser bikes, designed for comfort had 'em. No reason why
this bike, also designed for comfort, shouldn't.

Quoted message said:

And the new wheels!! The hoops of my beater, with tennis balls wedged
in the spokes, are hipper.

They would've gone with twisted spokes, but they figured this would [censored] the
RBT crowd just as bad and has the benefit of having not been done.

Quoted message said:

To complete their caricature of bicycle esthetics, Specialized should
round out the ensemble by hanging one of these
[http://www.bullsballs.com/brass/truck/balls.html]
from under the seat -- in carbon fiber, of course.

Don't give them any ideas. Jeebus H Keerist, they'll see your post and make
their little damper doodads round and move 'em up to the top of the seat stays.

Ron

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

New marketing slogan for Specialized product: 'Specialized: Redefining
Ugliness'. I'm curious to hear the psuedo-scientific performance
related rationale for the arched top tubes.

The old balloon tire cruiser bikes, designed for comfort had 'em. No reason
why
this bike, also designed for comfort, shouldn't.

I don't understand this proposition: arched top-tube == greater
comfort. Oh, wait a minute! Here's Specialized's rationale as
reiterated by cyclingnews.com[1]:

"The new curves not only look great, but also reportedly enhance the
frame's vertical compliance by 5.6 percent as compared to last year's
carbon Roubaix, a difference Specialized likens to running just 90psi
in your tires versus 120psi. The Zertz elastomeric dampers carry on,
but alas, they still don't come in colorsŠ"

Darn, can't get Zertz in neon pink, there goes that sale!

On a related note, I find curving frame tubes/stays to be attractive
when employed by a builder with a keen eye for form and proportion.
Their engineering merits aside, generally I find Mrazek's bikes to be
very graceful. [http://www.mrazek.com/produ.html].

But Specialized's latest offerings impress me with the notion that its
designers subscribe to a creed that elevates bombast and gaudiness --
the bikes are for the $200 running shoe crowd.

Luke

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http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_20
07_road

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:36:41 -0400, Luke <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I don't understand this proposition: arched top-tube == greater
comfort. Oh, wait a minute! Here's Specialized's rationale as
reiterated by cyclingnews.com[1]:

"The new curves not only look great, but also reportedly enhance the
frame's vertical compliance by 5.6 percent as compared to last year's
carbon Roubaix,

I believe this. 106% of almost zero is still almost zero.

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a difference Specialized likens to running just 90psi
in your tires versus 120psi.

No way.

JT

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Those wheels are fugly!

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Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_2007_road

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

These guys will induce everybody into becoming a retro-grouch.
Resistance is futile.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

--
Michael Press

Qui si parla Campagnolo said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/features/specialized_2007_road

YGBSM....design run amok....stoopid to boot. I thought Specialized
couldn't top their little clear plastic inserts...but they did!!!

Aw here now! You're all very cynical, but it's "2 percent stiffer at
the bottom bracket according to in-house testing". 2 whole percent!
Whoodathunkit!

....and the ride is "compliant, yet springy" - it's what I've always
wanted!

I can't live without one of these. :-)

W*nkers. That's stuff is seriously OTT in the marketing department.
What's worse is that the bikes (Roubaix and Tarmac), or at least the
frames, are really good (at least on a test ride). I'd have one in a
flash, but the marketing nonsense genuinely puts me off buying one. I
suppose it gets coverage in the cycling comics though, and they get
more sales than they lose because of it.

bookieb.