competitive SOs...(long)

[Mr. SR500]

Go for it, clipless pedals and all. He'll get on board. I remember when Mrs. got her Madone, made my old one sort of dated and old, but it's an awesome bike and she deserves it!

[lph]

Cut him some slack. He's just trying to do the manly thing of teaching what he knows best, the way he was taught it, which of course was the best way Especially if he felt that he "earned" his rise up to the really good gear by using semi-good stuff first.

I went through a phase of that when I had rock climbed a couple of years - long enough to have learned a lot of stuff and identify myself intensely as a rock climber, not long enough to realize there were other ways of doing it. I was pretty insufferable

Clipless is not rocket science. You'll be fine!

[Owlie]

Cut him some slack. He's just trying to do the manly thing of teaching what he knows best, the way he was taught it, which of course was the best way Especially if he felt that he "earned" his rise up to the really good gear by using semi-good stuff first.

That's probably what it is. I think he'd prefer me to upgrade the heck out of my current bike and then buy a new one when I can't upgrade it anymore. If it weren't cheaper to buy a new bike than upgrade my bike to 105, I'd do that. (I did the math based on new parts, but still.)