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Been looking on-line at new road bikes...
(TdF related - maybe... summer weather realted, maybe not)
I got in to mtb in the mid 90s, but rode on the road before that...
But road bikes look a lot different in the (almost) 20 years since I bought / built my last one
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I have concluded that I don't know what I am looking at, but have an idea what I am looking for. Always liked Italian bikes, and fancied a Colnago, Pinarello or Bianchi - yes, I accept, there is a healthy dose of aethetics / vanity in that thinking
Show me some droolworthy bikes that might interest me.
ETA - I still ride the Paganini. I find it very twitchy after mtbing, and the frame is a tad small
Well thank you turtle - very helpful...
I had, in fact, started by looking through the various pages of online retailers' road bikes - hence the appeal for some informed STW input 😉
You don't want any of that Italian rubbish!
[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-kona-honky-tonk-like-new-450 ]You want this![/url] 😉
Budget?
for sunny days - carbon beast totally out of my league in terms of what is was designed for but oh so comfy and fast.
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for wet and mud and trails - love this bike as is very responsive and was less than £1K, real swiss army knife IFYKWIM, can be had with disc brakes these days.
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+1 for the Coretto...
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I'd have a Storck as a consolation though...
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That Baum thing is vile; fat forks and a skinny rear end look wrong.
The Paganini pic is still the nicest so far!
That Baum thing is vile; fat forks and a skinny rear end look wrong.
You're an ass man eh?
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This is mine yes seat bags are wrong but I commute and sometimes need 'bits'
That's one high post buddy. You must be extremely aero in the drops.
Its a 61cm frame too!! I just have v long legs
I have one of these. They look great in the flesh.
but with Campag on it
I like that Baum
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/yen867/6223215132/ ]Giant 2012 TCR composite 1[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/yen867/ ]Alex.W[/url], on Flickr[/img]
this isn't mine.. but mine looks like this!
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Pretty much the definition of 'a nice road bike' imo. Some things haven't changed that much..
Well apart from the Baum bikes that's an underwhelming list of ordinary!
[i]Well apart from the Baum bikes that's an underwhelming list of ordinary![/i]
...and your contribution would be?
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that flandria is a whole heap of win
currently in the classifieds
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Well apart from the Baum bikes that's an underwhelming list of ordinary!...and your contribution would be?
oh and the title said
show me some nice ones
Why did you post up a Kuota??? or the scotts ?? 🙄
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Oi! I put the speedvagen up first 👿
Oi! I put the speedvagen up first
ok I will see if I can find a picture of my white one as well!
Better!
Purely personal opinion, but I'm not keen on the understated titaniumish look, I much prefer the big mad fat tubed carbon silliness.
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If you're going to dress in skin tight lycra, might as well do it loud...
[i]Why did you post up a Kuota??? or the scotts ??[/i]
Because titanium and thin tubed steel is dull, no matter how much it may cost.
If you're going to dress in skin tight lycra, might as well do it loud...
Good point 😀
Go on then
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Because titanium and thin tubed steel is dull, no matter how much it may cost.
To each there own.
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Because titanium and thin tubed steel is dull, no matter how much it may cost
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.....no matter how wrong and stupid it may be.
Oi Doc!....I have never hated anyone without meeting them first as much as I hate/envy you right now 
At the end of the day plastic is still plastic.
It looks better in the flesh.
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thin tubed steel is dull, no matter how much it may cost.
Dull, or classy, or old-fashioned, or timeless .. but certainly the exact opposite of that Cube )
AndyF1 and damo, 2 examples of very nice carbon bikes there.
But if it HAS to be plastic
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At least make it light (10lb 10oz)
Don`t mock,but...
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