Road bikes for commuting

Here at Commute By Bike we focus primarily on utility bikes designed more for practical transportation rather than fast sport recreation. I know many of you, however, like the fast road bikes.

My good friend Ken Conley in Silicon Valley is a fast bike fanatic who rides his bike to work. He recently had an opportunity to test the amazing Storck Absolutist 0.9 road bike. This $6,700 carbon fiber bike is handbuilt in Germany and weighs less than 15 pounds.

Using this bike for your commute is a little like racing down the freeway in a Formula 1 race car, so I thought it amusing that Ken wrote about his commute on this bike.

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~ by crosetti on September 5, 2008.