Road Test/Bike Review (1985) CIOCC Super Record Pro
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Road Test/Bike Review (1985) CIOCC Super Record Pro
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You're welcome. 
And I just came across this seductive CIOCC ad in the same issue:
And I just came across this seductive CIOCC ad in the same issue:
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The little blurb about SLX vs. SL was interesting. I have an SLX Serotta and it's the second stiffest steel frameset in my stable (being beat by my modern Colnago).
Of course there are other factors involved but the SLX in a 56cm seems to be stiffer. It wasn't confirmation bias, because at the time, I assumed that the SLX was a "thinner/lighter" tubeset than SL so the expectation was for a more lively frame.
Of course there are other factors involved but the SLX in a 56cm seems to be stiffer. It wasn't confirmation bias, because at the time, I assumed that the SLX was a "thinner/lighter" tubeset than SL so the expectation was for a more lively frame.
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The little blurb about SLX vs. SL was interesting. I have an SLX Serotta and it's the second stiffest steel frameset in my stable (being beat by my modern Colnago).
Of course there are other factors involved but the SLX in a 56cm seems to be stiffer. It wasn't confirmation bias, because at the time, I assumed that the SLX was a "thinner/lighter" tubeset than SL so the expectation was for a more lively frame.
Of course there are other factors involved but the SLX in a 56cm seems to be stiffer. It wasn't confirmation bias, because at the time, I assumed that the SLX was a "thinner/lighter" tubeset than SL so the expectation was for a more lively frame.
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The little blurb about SLX vs. SL was interesting. I have an SLX Serotta and it's the second stiffest steel frameset in my stable (being beat by my modern Colnago).
Of course there are other factors involved but the SLX in a 56cm seems to be stiffer. It wasn't confirmation bias, because at the time, I assumed that the SLX was a "thinner/lighter" tubeset than SL so the expectation was for a more lively frame.
Of course there are other factors involved but the SLX in a 56cm seems to be stiffer. It wasn't confirmation bias, because at the time, I assumed that the SLX was a "thinner/lighter" tubeset than SL so the expectation was for a more lively frame.
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My SLX -tubed 1990 Concorde Aquila felt more springy and responsive than my SP-tubed 1989 Colnago Super Piu but there were a number of differences. Size (Concorde was 64 cm vs 61 cm for Colnago), geometry, time and my fitness (I got hit by a car wrecking the Concorde and was in worse physical shape when I got back on the Colnago), and fork (Colnago has original steel, Concorde had carbon replacement) among other things, so it's really an apples to pineapples difference.
