{"id":288,"date":"2009-07-15T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T12:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/wordpress30\/?p=288"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:55","slug":"288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Specialized Epic Allez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this bike, slightly used, in Denver in the early 90&#8217;s.\u00a0 It got a lot of use!\u00a0 It was one of the very early Specialized attempts at carbon.\u00a0 The frame tubing was glued into the Aluminum lugs, something not done now.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, I got into the Bike Friday thing, and Eileen took over this bike. When we moved to Wisconsin and discovered how hilly it is here, I converted it, at no small expense, to a triple.\u00a0 I used the triple crank set from my old yellow Marin mountain bike, which made the gearing setup a &#8220;compact triple&#8221;, more or less.\u00a0 The shifters were the original 600 series downtub shifters. I bought conversion hardware that allowed me to mount them as bar end shifters.<\/p>\n<p>Eileen rode this bike in some tri races, on the 2007 GRABAAWR, and the 2007 Wright Stuff Century.\u00a0 The very low gearing was loved.\u00a0 The bar end shifters were not loved, at least by Eileen.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, she decided that riding a hand-me-down bike was no longer acceptable, and bought a new Specialized Roubaix.\u00a0 I wanted to keep this, but really couldn&#8217;t justify it.\u00a0 I&#8217;d sold my last bike Friday, I was riding a nice all carbon Specialized Roubaix.\u00a0 We sold it to a &#8220;good home&#8221;.\u00a0 Despite dire warnings about the short life span of glued lugs, this frame never softened up or got creaky.\u00a0 I always thought it was a great looking bike, what with the black carbon weave showing, and the yellow trim. I wish I still had it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/Photos\/2009\/07\/Specialized_Epic\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-289\" title=\"IMG_0902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0902-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0902-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0902.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> (click here to see the photos used in the Craigslist ad to sell this bike)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this bike, slightly used, in Denver in the early 90&#8217;s.\u00a0 It got a lot of use!\u00a0 It was one of the very early Specialized attempts at carbon.\u00a0 The frame tubing was glued into the Aluminum lugs, something not done now. At some point, I got into the Bike Friday thing, and Eileen took &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=288\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Specialized Epic Allez&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}