Quote Originally Posted by cylegoddess View Post
Whats better is that I stopped freaking out over cost and started to think - hey thats my bike!! I never rode a carbon one. Is it different?
You betcha. I went from an aluminium bike (which, at the time that I bought it, was much lighter than my previous bike) to carbon and it's like night and day.

When I ride the Synapse (the carbon bike) it's like riding on air. When I go up hills I feel like the only thing fighting my climb is my own body weight, not the bike's. Everything about it feels lighter, faster, better.

Also - and maybe people don't like admitting to this - when you need to lift the bike to put it in the back of a ute because you've bonked in the middle of nowhere and have had to get your other half to come get you.. it's MUCH easier to lift!!!

Max