Saturday, October 25, 2008

'09 bikes

Meet Saxton's French Bulldog. (Note: Not a Boston Terrier.)

The 2009 bikes are starting to trickle into the shop. This is a '09 Scott Addict R4 with the new Sram Rival group. The buzz around InterBike this year was that the '09 Rival grouppo will be the road group to beat. And I can see why, at the price point. The brake/shift levers are lighter than Dura-Ace! Or 7800 series at least. What do you think about the new graphics on the Addict?

Rival brake levers get the carbon treatment for '09. Sweet!


Giant. Giant has taken it up a notch; quite a bit really. For '09 they introduced two new lines of high-end carbon road bikes. TCR Advanced SL, and TCR Advance. These look like great bikes. The one pictured here actually has an aluminum steerer, but the next one up (Sram Force) has a carbon steerer.

The Hub rug.

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