Originally Posted by
Sol588
I have a 2015 Defy Advanced 2 which I like a lot. However, I experienced a clyde on a propel pass me one day early this bike season and I could not get over how he effortlessly left me in the dust. The seed was planted that day!
The cool thing will be that same clyde will pass you on your Propel.
I'm an advocate of buying new bikes, but the bike is not why he left you in the dust. He was probably just a big, powerful fit guy and (I'm guessing) on the flats -- in other words, he was in his wheelhouse and you were not. There are a lot of clydes who can diesel along for miles at a pretty high rate of speed. When the road turns up, though, the tables turn. I love that about cycling.