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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 07-11-11, 09:40 PM
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Old 07-11-11, 09:46 PM
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nice bikes.
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Old 07-11-11, 09:46 PM
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Can you be more succinct?
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Old 07-11-11, 09:47 PM
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Nice bikes if you can have all.
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Old 07-11-11, 09:52 PM
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All of them look good. I can only comment on the Felt geometry from personal experience and it is a very nice ride. Try as many as you can and if you are still undecided go with the best components for the price.
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Old 07-11-11, 09:56 PM
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I like the color.
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That stable would still be short 1 bike.
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Old 07-11-11, 11:24 PM
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Old 07-11-11, 11:28 PM
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That stable would still be short 1 bike.
Every stable is short one more bike.
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Old 07-12-11, 05:22 AM
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Nice bikes.
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Old 07-12-11, 05:34 AM
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Very nice. Which one do you like?
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Old 07-12-11, 05:54 AM
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Old 07-12-11, 06:54 AM
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Lots of different equipment levels and frame types there (ie race, more comfort etc).

What are you trying to achieve? Perhaps the good folks here will give you better opinions if they had more to work with.
















Or maybe not...
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Old 07-12-11, 08:04 AM
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Perhaps the good folks here will give you better opinions if they had more to work with.
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Old 07-12-11, 08:14 AM
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The Synapse frame looks eerily like a BD Dawes. Not a fan of the sloping seat stays.

The Scott is sexy.
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Old 07-12-11, 08:20 AM
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Old 07-18-11, 06:46 AM
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These are the bikes I'm interested in. Haven't test rode any yet. The Giant and Trek are my favorite so far. Good news is, all of the bikes are at my LBS so I'm hoping to give them all a spin.
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Old 07-18-11, 06:51 AM
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Old 07-18-11, 07:44 AM
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Buy one of each, try each for a week, pick the one you like to keep, and send the rest to me for proper disposal.
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Old 07-18-11, 08:07 AM
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Old 07-18-11, 08:48 AM
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Old 07-18-11, 08:52 AM
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If you're asking which one we would like, that would all be subjective. Everyone has a specific taste in bikes just like they do most everything. It really depends on price you are willing to pay and what components, materials & colors you'd like. I don't think you'd go wrong with any of those choices.
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Old 07-18-11, 08:54 AM
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A question through pictures requires a response of pictures. Too bad my google image search came up with too many. Giant/Felt, cough.
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Old 07-18-11, 08:59 AM
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Old 07-18-11, 09:03 AM
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I like the more traditional geometry of the Scott vs the sloping top tube of most of the others, save the Cannondale.
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