I bought a couple of years old Giant SCR Ltd for £250 off here. Same spec bike new is about £700 (Tiagara level) with Carbon post. Its great fun especially up here with the quiet roads 
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Definitely going to give the road a try....
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I've just gone the general purpose route, condor fratello with campag centuar
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From my experience taking to the road over the last few months:
make sure you get fitted correctly or have proper test rides, fit is probably more important than anything else
think carefully about what you want from the bike, do you really want an out and out racer or something more comfy?
consider buying something cheaper if you're not convinced road riding is the way forward, I bought a discounted Boardman for £430, tried it over winter, liked it, sold it for £435 (with some upgrades!) and bought a rather nice Sabbath Silk Road.Posted 2 years ago # -
djglover - Member
I've just gone the general purpose route, condor fratello with campag centuar
have you ridden it yet?
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as daveh says, fit is the most important thing, a good bike shop will sort you there. You'll be sat in the same position for a long time, it's not like mountain bking where you're moving around a lot. next is good wheels. Really, the best you can get. After that is groupset, 105 is what you're after at minimum as people have already said. I'm loving Ultegra at the moment though, it really is a huge step up from 105, especially the chainset, amazingly stiff.
As far as being on the road.... It's about taking control. you'll be fine if you ride defensively and expect everyone to be a moron. Personally in the last couple of years I've found attitudes have improved a lot. That's not to say it's easy but if you are confident and be traffic reather than a cyclist, you'll find it a lot easier.
If I were providing advice to a road newbie, it'd be 'expect everyone overtaking you to turn left right in front of you', that'll save your life about 80% of the time IME.
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I wanted to buy a road bike from my lbs but they could not come close to a cayo and to be honest were not interested/able to set up a bike they were going to sell me anyway. After 2 years cannot fault the cayo. Doing a 70 miler this morning.
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So what would everyone recommend in the way of wheel upgrades? I've got stock wheels on a Giant OCR (Campag cheapo hubs)
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something from lightweight or zipp.
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Campag Zondas
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