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Sam’s flat-bar Specialized Diverge

Tech editor Sam gets to test-ride almost all of the latest and greatest bikes, which has helped him pin down exactly what features and attributes he does and doesn’t want in his own.

Drop bars are great and all, but they don’t half make life tricky in certain circumstances. On the train they generate seemingly hundreds of different ways for your bike to snag on other bikes/people/bags/carriage infrastructure. They aren’t really the right vibe for a pootle with

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