All I need to forget about weight and carbon is when I carve a line
through a curve on a descent. As long as my retro-looking bike keeps
doing that for me the same as it always has, I thrilled by it every
time. For me, that's IS the real world.
The only way that the sloping compact frame road bike comes anywhere
to looking reasonably good is when the saddle is very much higher than
the handlebars. It's the only thing that seems to correct for the fact
that everything else is totally out of proportion and the front end is
so high
