then cincai buy one lar... cane creek, FSA, token, watever yanks your chain....
the madone 7 tubing looks smaller??? tak perasan pun last time i saw it... the tube shape is different lar cos they employed the kamm tail (truncated airfoil shape) onto the madone 7 and even the new madone 6... i didn't see the new 6... but i've seen before the madone 6.9ssl radioshack replica and the madone 7 series bike... with a bb90 bottom bracket, the downtube is going to be inevitably fat on both bikes.. .so, not sure which or how you saw it looks less bulky...

the madone is a good bike never the less... whether it is better or worse than a tarmac.. i am not sure.. i don't own either one.. i believe it is on par with it plus you get a all rounder + aero bike all in one... the 7 series should cost over 20k as the 6.9ssl team replica last i know was in the 30k region with a set of bontrager aeolus 5 wheels....

the only question is whether you should get 6 or 7 series since both is more or less the same with what i believe to be the 7 being lighter in weight... i am also not sure if 6 is made in waterloo, wisconsin or they have handed the manufacturing to the asians... 7 is for sure made in house because of the HexSL carbon which is exclusive to the 7...

the thing i like about the 7 is the duotrap sensors which provides a clean look throughout the bike with it's internal cablings... the bad thing is.. you are stuck with the brakes as they are more or less a proprietary design with the shrouded brakes... with the 6 and 7.. you also get to fit types which is H1 and H2...

that or you can also consider the domane... it's practically made for people with osteoporosis...

the popularity of the bike... i think i dun need to explain lar... cos of the armstrong, schleck brothers farce... it's practically gone from hero to totally zero...

That is the sole reason why they stilll use BB90 which is to make a wide downtube to handle the torsional loads from the BB section... the tubing shape is not a worry cos it's still very thin at the end of the day.. it's not like a whole solid chuck of carbon there or something like despite looking chunky...

handling wise, it should be no slouch.. if you take the domane, then maybe cos the fork rake is different if i am not wrong...

and the ride should be quite tuned out as they use a ride tuned seat mass to kill out the road buzz...

aiyahh.... make up ur mind la. u want lightest, or u want safety?

ok, let me recap...

you want it light, but not so light...
you want it safe, but not necessarily too safe
you want a 3T, but actually not a 3T...
and then you want a black white zipp being colored by a black marker pen...

so, in summary, you want a white zipp seatpost that is colored by a marker pen black and then labeled 3T which is not really that light and may or may not break and sprsbtsx you... .am i right?

frankly... i dunno wat seatpost is that loh... it's very the confusing me...

that's like saying i want to order a plate of chicken rice, but i don't want the chicken or the rice... i just want the plate...

fast flat or slow climb; why need to suffer at all?

take it ez and enjoy the ride.

yaya... i prefer long slow climb too!

that's where i went Gua Musang and cycling up to Cameron highland for uphills 100km!