cfkb's garage: mostly steel (ft. surly, paul donohue, rourke)

Ride experience (pretentious subjective adjectives coming up):

• carbon fork is more responsive than the original steel one, particularly obvious when bike throwing
  
• USE drop bar is stiff and shape is lovely, only let down by the low lever mounting position #bdhu
  
• Shimano levers are ergonomically inferior - too narrow to hold and too long to reach when in the drops. Will be trying the TRP / sram options
  
• Rolling resistance is real, though the jack brown <> conti TT might not be a fair comparison to start with
  
• Rear mount bottle cages have a very high chance to eject your bottle, or worse, tool bottle. My experience confirms it.