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So,
I own a full sus sworks stump jumper and have moved to a place I can't mountain bike locally but there's a good road riding community and ven the local race circuit opens its doors to bikes on a weds eve.
I go pretty hard on my sworks running schwalbe Duranos and have an hour average best of 20.1mph.
I really want to improve on this and would love a top carbon road bike but can't afford it and still want to keep my MTB so can't sell it to fund one.
Im thinking about a 19" Carbon Cycles Exotic hard tail with a set of their 44.5cm carbon forks. This, coupled with the kit I have on my Spesh should make a pretty stiff and handy hard tail/road bike.
My question is, does anyone here have much experience with these frames? I've already owned a set of their forks which I was impressed with.
Any advice is welcome.
Cheers
Gonna be a huge compromise. Won't be a road bike, won't be as good a mountain bike as what you've got now.
You say you can't mtb locally - do you still mtb at all? If not, selling it and buy a road bike is the obvious thing to do, but you said you don't want to.
would love a top carbon road bike but can't afford it
Not many people can, but you can still get a decent road bike for not much money. Ribble, planet x, canyon, boardman, all can do very good bikes for £1000-£1500.
You can pick up great deals as well, Giant TCRs with 105 can go for as little as £1000.
Or you can go second hand - you said there's a good road community, there's probably someone willing to give you a great deal on a used but decent road bike. Could pick up something perfectly suitable to get you started on for £500.
There is mountain biking but it's an hour away and working 6 days a week with a wife n 2 girls kinda rules out commuting to ride.
I had an sworks hard tail last year as my race bike and ran that with rigid exotics which rode superbly, that's my thinking behind buying the carbon. Plus the frame and forks would only set me back £600. Far less than a decent road bike and nearly as light..
Cx bike with 2 sets of wheels?
£600 would get you a good SH road bike which will be much better, sell your FS and put that towards it?