She bought a Domane 4: "Domane 4 Series flies past any other carbon endurance race bike in its class, with IsoSpeed for race comfort, endurance geometry for stability, and Power Transfer Construction for speed."
I'm not exactly sure what a carbon endurance race bike is supposed to be, but I guess I'll see tomorrow if she shows up at our big club ride. After I suggested to her in email that a double chainring might not be adequate for the roads around here, some of which are very steep indeed (Redwood Gulch! Bohlmann!) she told me that the shop said that triples have more repair problems than doubles. Maybe that's a problem with brifters? I have never had trouble with the triples on my bikes, but I also don't use brifters. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:07 PM, cyclotourist <cyclotour...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well bless her heart. But really, who wouldn't want every advantage elite > athletes desire? > http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/collections/womens/road/endurance_race/domane_5_series/ > > Cheers, > David > > "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - Seth Vidal > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> She bought a carbon Trek Domane, because of course she did. >> >> Interestingly, the Domane is billed as a bike for rough rides and >> gravel. And it is spec'ed with, I am not making this up, 700 x 25 >> tires. Because when you're riding off road, you absolutely want to be >> riding 25mm tires. I believe the bike allows enormously huge 28mm >> tires too. >> >> -- >> -- Anne Paulson >> >> It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Anne Paulson It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
