Originally Posted by
Lombard
I immediately noticed a difference in lateral frame stiffness between my 2007 Pilot 5.0 and 2014 Synapse Carbon.
No surprise. Modern "endurance" bikes concede little or nothing to "race" bikes in terms of bottom bracket stiffness. In my experience they lose a little at the front end due to taller head tubes, but that's the sort of thing duffers like us can live with.