PINARELLO ROKH/SRAM FORCE/RIVAL COMPLETE BIKE

Everyone deserves an exciting bike. But exciting shouldn't mean a bike is exciting because it takes all your attention to ride it in a straight line or that it's exciting because the stem is so low you can't see more than 10 meters up the road. This is where the Pinarello ROKH/SRAM Force/Rival Complete Bike really shines. It's a no-nonsense road racer.

The ROKH marries the efficiencies gained from the asymmetries of the Pinarello Dogma, a design that puts more power to the pedals, with the comfort of the KOBH ("cob," short for cobblestone), the ProTour frame for the cobbled classics. The ROKH blends these two ideas together with 30HM12K carbon cloth the fabric of choice. What comes out of the mold is a stiff frame that is designed for stability and long distance comfort.

The comfort package for the ROKH includes: clearance for 28mm tires, curvilinear seat stays for more vertical compliance, slightly relaxed head and seat angles, a longer fork rake, and a taller head tube so it's easy to have your bars higher. As you should know, comfort has a certain relationship with speed. When you're comfortable, you're generally in a frame of mind to ride hard. And when you're going hard, you'll be happy that the fork rides on a tapered fork with a 1-1/2" lower race. It's another feature to keep the riding not only fast, but safe and predictable.

While the frame comes first, we definitely don't skimp on the parts. This bike is built up with a SRAM Force rear derailleur and Double-Tap levers along with a Rival front derailleur and 50/34 compact cranks. The cassette is a SRAM 12-27 10-speed, giving you a wide range of gear ratios. Climbing, check. Descending, check. Riding easy, check. Riding hard, check. The Fulcrum Racing 5 wheels have 20 spokes in front and 24 in the rear with 24mm deep clincher rims. The rest of the build comes from Pinarello's MOst component line, which means all the parts are finished to compliment the frame's paint scheme. Those components include MOst B-Max Force brakes, MOst C-Alu seat post, MOst Jaguar XA compact ergonomic bars, MOst Tiger stem, and MOst Oselot saddle. Bars, stem, crank lengths are all size appropriate to the frame.

The Pinarello ROKH/SRAM Force/Rival Complete Bike comes in seven sizes. It's available in two colors -- White/Red/Black and Movistar White/Blue/Green.

ROKH/SRAM Force/Rival Complete Bike Price:  $3600.00