>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?
