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Orbea Orca Vs Pinarello Dogma

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Published on Friday, 23 September 2011 07:02

Written by Luca Salvatelli

Dear Editor,

I would like some advice on the next bike I'll buy, considering they I am an amateur cyclist (former junior year ago ...), some with not much time to train, but very demanding as regards the characteristics of a road bike: rigidity, reactivity in the first place, immediately after aesthetics, while the weight is not important for me, whereas I go for 83 kg to 169 cm in height ...

I have wavered between the Orbea Orca Gold, like the one supplied with the Euskaltel Euskadi team, and the Pinarello Dogma 60.1 Team Sky! After consultation with your report cards, have rubbed my eyes to the Orbea Orca, having almost all the 10 different features, (but also defends well Wilier SLR 101), but there is no feedback with 60.1 Dogma, and aesthetically I draws perhaps a little more ... What can you tell me about it, even considering the 2012 version of Dogma?

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Dear Reader, first some remarks on report cards. These are obviously written by me on the basis of its own yardstick and a careful analysis of technical and dynamic behaviour of the bike. The basic element of the evaluation, common for all bikes, is that the bike is used on the street by an amateur cyclist and not a professional agonist. It’s clear that if that were to be the touchstone then things might be different. Just to clarify Damiano Cunego (contractual obligations aside) would much rather his Wilier 101SLR to Orbea Orca Gold, which also, as noted, has received an overall better in my grades. As noted stiffness under different bikes have got 10, but it is simplistic to think that all have the same stiffness, although all are at the top of the market and then I get with an equal vote. Now we come to your question. From the standpoint of rigidity and responsiveness, need a bike light and rigid. The MCipollini RB1000 is rigid, but the weight lifted (in comparison to competitors) prevents her from being very responsive. In this respect it is the best Wilier 101SLR, which manages to combine maximum rigidity of the frame, with a low weight, followed by the Bianchi Oltre and Orbea Orca Gold. The differences between the three models are very minimal and therefore it seems ungenerous to say that one model is superior to another. The Pinarello Dogma, such behaviour is far more similar to RB1000, a very good stiffness, but the weight is not content degrades performance, and little or nothing has been done on Dogma 2 to solve a problem (the only). If you like to buy, Dogma and Dogma 2 are substantially similar. Orbea Orca Gold has had a high overall assessment because it has no weaknesses and is perhaps the best road bike that an amateur could want. But as I said an amateur who does not look only at a specific aspect, but the bike as a whole. For this reason, also because of the price, the Orbea Orca Gold wins the comparison with the Dogma. Costs less, weighs less, is just as rigid, more comfortable, has the same driving skills, build quality the same, if not better in some places. The cold analysis of a confrontation hangs very much in favour Orbea, but if she likes it because it deprived the Dogma of the pleasure of owning it?