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Frame only for the win!!
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No, it wasn't although I've read some more and do think they're better in that regard - you can much more easily recycle a dead metal bike compared to carbon which is basically useless unless it can be repaired (which you can also do with steel)
I just seemed to veer towards metal bikes for cost and durability reasons and then away from alu for some other arbitrary reason I don't recall (maybe the Kinesis snapping) and don't think ti is worth it so steel it is. For most riding there's very little point with carbon - makes sense when aero stuff is a concern (hence my Shiv) but ultra racing the bike ends up covered in bags rendering any aero shit redundant and off-road I hate the sound of rocks pinging into carbon wheels and frames - metal rims and frames ftw (often bend rather than cracking so you can fix your tubeless seal too)
Saying all this, I did resurrect my 2005/06? Tarmac and it's so nice having such a light bike (mostly for stairs but it also has 404s and fast tyres so it's generally pretty rapid compared to everything else I ride). It's twitchy as fuck compared to the Tripster with 1kg of aerobars hanging off the front though :)
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Thanks for all the comments! Some good options to think of.
There seem to be more than I thought with reasonable clearance. Mudguard mounts is probably going to be harder to find.
@GoatandTricycle I hadn't heard of stander before but I'm going to be in Berlin in a couple of weeks and will be meeting someone in the same street as their showroom!
@Samuli I'm going the other way, I'm afraid! I don't know if it is age, becoming a parent, not doing any crits, hardly ever riding in mountains or a combination of all, but I've lost a lot of confidence in descending and go slower than ever.
On the TCR this year I was dreading the descents because of the pain in the backs of my hands. I don't think different blocks would fix it. Disk brakes might not either, maybe it's just the weight on my hands descending for an extended period.
@hippy why no carbon? Is it on environmental grounds? Maybe I should go that way...
@hippy I thought it was you that was catching up with me! I was using MTB gearing on road bikes 12 years ago, and tubeless 8 years ago...
I'll enjoy looking through a bunch of the suggestions. And getting passed off when I see they all spec the wrong groupsets, wheels, etc!