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Contemplating the dark side : Road bike advice please

mrmoofo · 2022-10-25T17:20:16Z

I ride an MTB and have the usual collect of them. However during winter, the South Downs become littered with green chalk waiting to kill you and Sussex mud that wants to pull you in and drown you. I am contemplating a road bike. The very throught chills me to the bone - because I don't really like road riding that much - but it would do my fitness a lot of good. I have an old Cotic Roadrat on CX tyres which will do in the short term ( but the are blessed with a very low stack height, which is an issue for my neck. It is also a "longer version" so cannot go dropped bars. Here is the question - I think I would need around 58cm frame (Im 6ft 1 1/2 on abad day). Happy to buy 2nd hand - but would want disc brakes. And the real killer - it would have to not have a press fit BB. I can't stand them. I would like to spend as little as possible as I might hate it- but would go up to 750 2nd hand - maybe a little more new. What is there out there in cheapskate roadie world that has a proper BB?

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GHill

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In your position (as I understand it), I'd be looking for:

Alloy frame with proper mudguard fittings
Tiagra groupset with hydros
Endurance geometry

Bb would maybe be a final deciding factor.

Posted : 26/10/2022 1:55 pm

mrmoofo

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Thanks all for the pointers and advice - just walking away from eBay before I buy something totally unsuitable

Posted : 26/10/2022 9:58 pm

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