Your opinion Please!

[Miranda]

Yep, alum is like riding with a tuning fork vibrating going thru your body. Carbon sucks the road up. Personally I'm considering alum only as a back up bike for shorter rides with the fm, not any major riding (just for something cheap). Yes, the shop can check for carbon damage. Fwiw, I crashed my carbon which 360 flipped over on top of me (my body didn't fair so well) and my frame fine. The alum spokes needed trued, and alum bars bent, but all carbon a-ok, stronger than you might think. Good luck.

[sundial]

Specialized does a pretty good job of dampening road noise through their Zertz inserts. My first Specialized was an aluminum road bike, a Sequoia, and it was pretty smooth on the chip seal roads that I ride on.

[Catrin]

I think that some of us do better with the aluminum "buzz" than others. Even with the carbon fork on my Trek AND the "iso-thingie" (can't remember the name) on the seat-stay it was very uncomfortable and I never made it to chip seal pavement. No aluminum for me ever again...

[pinsonp2]

Any body tried these to dampen the road buzz? http://bontrager.com/model/04579 I don't have the problem with the carbon forks, but I saw these in the LBS and thought they might be interesting.

P2

[sundial]

The one upgrade to my bike that made the most substantial change in ride quality was converting to tubeless road tires. That made the ride so much more enjoyable and the tires absorbed alot of the road noise.

[arielmoon]

Any body tried these to dampen the road buzz? http://bontrager.com/model/04579 I don't have the problem with the carbon forks, but I saw these in the LBS and thought they might be interesting.

P2

I had them and could not tell any difference.