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Haven't fitted any myself as I don't need them, but it has lowrider mounts on the front, and eyelets on the back. Would need a seatpost upper clamp, but that's easily doable.
Anyone know what bars they are on the orange UP??
whereisthurso - where have you seen caad x with tiagra groupset for that price?!
Cloudnine, the look a little bit like 3T Aeronovas.
Merida Cyclo Cross 300 for £456?
Surely a bargain and I think it's pretty
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whereisthurso - that sounds like a bargain if that price is correct. I have the 105 CAAD X and am really pleased with it.
That Open looks awesome!
I'm having similar deliberations around my new bike.
As well as the OP's list I have the Verenti Substance 105 (750quid on Wiggle) and the Kona Jake on my list too.
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I've ordered one of these from Hargroves as the extra 10% off brought it down from £1150 to £719. Will probably sell off most stuff apart from frame, forks, wheels & brakes and swap on the stuff from my current CX.
Apparantly they have just shipped it 🙂
Roger_mellie, I might be too late but over black Friday weekend sigma sport were doing 125 off on a 750 spend. I got the caad x tiagra some bar tape and pedals for 625. Best bargain since the cannondale trigger that I bought last month. Time to stop spending now
Hi.
The Awol doesn't look like it will fit big rubber. I've done a tubeless conversion on the Giant revolt and put on 1.9 inch specialized tubeless 29er racing tires which makes it so much more capable, and changed the bars for something similar to a Jones since the front end is much lower than the AWOL. Tiagra thumb shifters and flatbar levers and an xt 2 speed crankset changed the affordable revolt to a nice light and capable rigid 29er adventure bike more capable thanks to the shorter cockpit, tires and gearing.
Dunno why they sell these bikes with such hard gearing and skinny tires. Singletrack is so fun with a mtb tire and shorter cockpit, especially when loaded
Left field option, flat bar version of the Sonder El Camino is £749, the drop bar one is £799
https://www.alpkit.com/sonder/sonder-camino-alloy
The AWOL can take a 2" tyre apparently, though I've never tried.
This thread is a year old BTW.