Outside Magazine’s Best Road Bikes of 2009

Geezer has paid less for a used car, ostensibly for his children, than serious cyclists will pay for some of these bikes, but the bikes are, Geezer confesses, a lot more fun to travel on. Outside magazine, still unafraid to spend money, hired 20 pro and amateur racers who, according to the editors “logged
thousands of test miles—from France and Spain to Arizona and
Colorado—to put every new rig through the wringer.” Here’s what they had to say.