How toity a bike is a Specialized?

[cheb]

There's an A1 Max in the older spawn's household and it'll probably fall to me to maintain it. It seems very flash compared to the sort of thing I had as a youth.

[Taff]

a quick google suggests that it's an approx. 15 yr old Allez, is that about right?

[cheb]

Don't know, to me it's just a bicycle. The tyres look very thin, I need to identirfy if they are normal or sew ups. Do sew ups still exist?

I've had nothing to with fancy bicycles since my Wormelow Tump* days.

*Douglas Adams, Meaning of Liff, look it up.

[Screwdriver]

Specialized is highfalutin rather than hoity toity. You may find some of these modern bicycles actually have hollow tyres. Inflating them is much easier with a right angle valve or your ears get stuck in the spokes.