United Cycling Team

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No comments yet? I figured you guys would have been arguing about it by
now.

http://cyclocosm.com/2006/02/pro-cycling-news-united-cycling.html

feel free to tear mercilessly at my opinions.

-Cosmo
http://cyclocosm.com

Even if the bikes are ugly, I really like the fact they're riding relatively
generic bikes. It's part of their focus on attaining an identity independent
of individual sponsors, it seems.

Dan

Quoted message said:

No comments yet? I figured you guys would have been arguing about it by
now.

http://cyclocosm.com/2006/02/pro-cycling-news-united-cycling.html

feel free to tear mercilessly at my opinions.

-Cosmo
http://cyclocosm.com

You're the David Spade of cycling journalism. You get the Vince
Lombardi award for cheesiest blog. Don't quit your day job or you might
not be able to make the mortgage on your trailer.

Cosmo, in my collection I have quite a few high end bikes. Just before
Christmas my brother found an unused Fuji's Newest frame in my size on
Craig's List. So I ended with yet another bike frame. I put it together
and that dull ping of aluminum turned out to be on the second best
handling bike I've ever ridden. What's more, it's a pound and a half
lighter than the best handler - an equally lower end Look KG-241. The
C40 and the Eddy Merckx Ex Pro won't see so much road time now.

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Cosmo, in my collection I have quite a few high end bikes. Just before
Christmas my brother found an unused Fuji's Newest frame in my size on
Craig's List. So I ended with yet another bike frame. I put it together
and that dull ping of aluminum turned out to be on the second best
handling bike I've ever ridden. What's more, it's a pound and a half
lighter than the best handler - an equally lower end Look KG-241. The
C40 and the Eddy Merckx Ex Pro won't see so much road time now.

I ride a full aluminum frame and I love it. But I don't buy $6,000
bikes (what with the mortgage on my trailer and all...). Having sold
bikes just down the road from Aspen all summer, I've gotta say that
people buying expensive bikes want carbon because Bicycling Magazine
and all the journalists that Geraard Spergen seems to think are better
than I am say it's the thing to have.

Be honest - if you were buying a new bike, money-is-no-object and
having never ridden either, would you have gone with the aluminum Fuji
(which I believe has carbon stays that AREN'T painted the same color as
the rest of the bike - maybe you overlooked that point) or the carbon
Colnago?

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Quoted message said:

I ride a full aluminum frame and I love it. But I don't buy $6,000
bikes (what with the mortgage on my trailer and all...). Having sold
bikes just down the road from Aspen all summer, I've gotta say that
people buying expensive bikes want carbon because Bicycling Magazine
and all the journalists that Geraard Spergen seems to think are better
than I am say it's the thing to have.

Be honest - if you were buying a new bike, money-is-no-object and
having never ridden either, would you have gone with the aluminum Fuji
(which I believe has carbon stays that AREN'T painted the same color as
the rest of the bike - maybe you overlooked that point) or the carbon
Colnago?

After perusing your blog, best to take your own advice. There are no
journalism awards for self-deprecation (nor for having sold bikes just down
the road from Aspen).

Dan Connelly said:

Even if the bikes are ugly, I really like the fact they're riding relatively
generic bikes. It's part of their focus on attaining an identity independent
of individual sponsors, it seems.

That doesn't appear to have been their intention since they're trying
to sell a bunch of these bikes for $6K and $7K. See:
http://www.united-bicycles.com/buy.php

That's pretty steep for an aluminum bike, but the website implies that
they will be custom-built which may account for the high price.

The frame looks a lot like my own team bike which is also from SoCal
and I wouldn't be surpised to find out they were contracting the same
builder (Russ Denny) to build these. The same guy built the aluminum
Macalu frames for Excel Sports.

Bret