Neither would make good every day commuters. It is a huge pain to try to fit fenders on a pure road bike. Skinny tire road bikes are not what most people recommend for commuting.
senorroboto on
I would not recommend anything with race geometry as a commuter, but Endurance road geometry like on the Allez would be good. That looks like a 2015 Allez Elite with a tiagra 2×10 groupset, it fits up to 26-28mm tires depending on which tires.
The two Cannondales CAADs are both race bikes, not sure which model each is exactly, most people also wouldn’t recommend a carbon fork old enough to be paired with a road triple crankset
garciakevz on
For commuting you need:
Minimum 28c to 32c tire clearance
Endurance geometry
105 or even new tiagra (tiagra is the new 105)
Disc or non disc brakes
Jonesm1 on
Fenders are the only question here that matters and that is your choice. 23c tires may not be perfect but for 10k each way on normal roads it’s just fine (and you can probably squeeze at least 25s on). For commuting speed is important: if you’re a regular family person and the commute starts taking significantly longer than alternative modes of transportation you will resent the lost time.
Beautiful_Paint8860 on
Find a bike that you won’t care about if it gets stolen, because it will
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Neither would make good every day commuters. It is a huge pain to try to fit fenders on a pure road bike. Skinny tire road bikes are not what most people recommend for commuting.
I would not recommend anything with race geometry as a commuter, but Endurance road geometry like on the Allez would be good. That looks like a 2015 Allez Elite with a tiagra 2×10 groupset, it fits up to 26-28mm tires depending on which tires.
The two Cannondales CAADs are both race bikes, not sure which model each is exactly, most people also wouldn’t recommend a carbon fork old enough to be paired with a road triple crankset
For commuting you need:
Minimum 28c to 32c tire clearance
Endurance geometry
105 or even new tiagra (tiagra is the new 105)
Disc or non disc brakes
Fenders are the only question here that matters and that is your choice. 23c tires may not be perfect but for 10k each way on normal roads it’s just fine (and you can probably squeeze at least 25s on). For commuting speed is important: if you’re a regular family person and the commute starts taking significantly longer than alternative modes of transportation you will resent the lost time.
Find a bike that you won’t care about if it gets stolen, because it will