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Chak
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The original thought was "as close to the original as possible, replace as perfectly as possible with whatever is available today.".
But that was silly. Because I don't do the same riding as twelve years ago when I was doing crits, entering sportives, and riding with London Dynamo and basically being a very crap road racer.
The Serotta was a bike for racing, a bike for club rides and hills.
And it took thinking about it over Christmas to be honest and realise that's not what I do. The club rides, occasionally with groups of friends, but not the racing.
What I do instead are things like the Dunwich Dynamo, or solo day rides, or bits of bike-packing, and European trips to do a few mountains or roll around Provence, and yes ... I commute on the same insane bikes.
So I'm looking for more comfort (in ride position and bike handling, as well as tired hands on the 200km+ rides I very rarely do but found that the Serotta did tire me on), more control (confidence for descents or late night exhausted reactions) but with the lightness and pace I enjoyed of the Serotta. It needs to be capable of going gravel or towpath, but be a road bike at it's core.
I want a race bike that concedes a few things to helping it go farther more comfortably, whilst carrying more than just the rider, and acknowledging that the rider isn't the best. Rather than a gravel or CX bike that tries to pretend it will be good for the majority of the time that it's on the road (which wil be 95% of the time).
A road bike that if I got the urge to do the South Downs Way wouldn't make me regret it, yet allows me to beat my personal best on the Dunwich Dynamo.
Hence, I figured I want discs, and the bike models are concessions to component choice.
I don't mind changing my mind, whatever I get will have been thought through like crazy by the time I settle on it. And who really doesn't go through every permutation of decision when buying a bike like this, I'm just doing it publicly.