edhornby - Memberrusty you always get it 50% right
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Evening Ed, all ok?
Hmmn, not sure I agree about oversize tubing.
I've had some really quite flexy older steel frames, and a few very unyielding ones too - I think the design and quality of materials matter more than the gauge of the tubing.
As to matt black, you're wronger than a Ralgex enema:
Matt black was introduced by cheapskate manufacturers as a cost cutting measure - far cheaper to anodise than to polish.
The fact that some people actually fell for it is a perfect example of human fallibility.
It looks cheap, heavy and ugly.
It's use on components is a sign of poor taste & weakness of character.
It's use on a frame is a possible indicator of hereditary syphilis, psychopathy & impotence.
Not mega money, and not mine yet, but quite tempted by either of these, I'll see what they get reduced to in the end of season sales.
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I'd scho the comment above about Ti, i just don't like the look of it on road bikes, if it had as much manipulation as an alu frame, or was left tubular like steel then it'd look good, but the sort of halfway house with a mishmash of tube diameters and bi-ovalised downtubes just reminds me of this, my first 26" wheeled bike..............
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I have the same cube litening as shown back a page but with plain carbon 50 mm's it's an amazing bike.
Fast, lite and stiffer than a sixty year old on Viagra.
Does this work? On my phone trying link flikr.
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I've got a Trek frame that is 56 cms and I'm 5' 8". I got it that big to have a longer top tube.
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5'8 with a 52 here.
5'8 again but 50 here
Going back to oversize carbon tubing verses thin tubing, it all depends on how well and were they are made and how well butted they are
Really liked this when I rode one:
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Ended up with one of these though:
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My giant Giant, XL Defy Alliance 1. Tiagra groupset with Sora brakes, I want to buy a new bike, but can't justify it really as I don't have the ability yet. Maybe when I can average over 30km/h consistantly!
Will treat myself to new shoes/helmet/jersey with some of the money I had put aside for the new bike.
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lots of pics from Epic Cycles by the look of things (the nicely displayed ones with bare walls behind like jlfs).
Personally hate the look of the pinarello with its stupid kinked/bumped/assymetric tubes, all marketing fluff and visual differentiation like the old GT triple triangle.
Are we talking nice bikes, or just nice looking? I am a sucker for white, and I think this Canyon has a lot right (simple lines, nice colour scheme with matching stem and forks), and is also a sickening deal, £1000 for full ultegra and aksiums on a nice ally frame with carbon fork (and no I'm not affiliated with them).
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Saw a Lapierre in FDJ team colours in a shop in France a year or two ago for about E3000 which I thought was stunning.
This frame but probably different build.
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That Lapierre looks good. Quite long - makes the proportions look right
Personally hate the look of the pinarello with its stupid kinked/bumped/assymetric tubes, all marketing fluff and visual differentiation like the old GT triple triangle.
Agreed. In fact I'm not that keen on most of the more 'aspirational' Italian brands, they usually have gopping paint jobs- I reckon the higher-end American ones look much nicer.
I do like Wiliers though.
Personally hate the look of the pinarello with its stupid kinked/bumped/assymetric tubes, all marketing fluff and visual differentiation like the old GT triple triangle.
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Hmmm that top lapierre appears to have a front wheel with more spokes than the rear which must be some heinous flouting of The Rules, so I apologize even though its not mine.
Parole z5 & red.
Condors Leggaro & red.
My new one arrives next week, skinny steel tubes, could be the start of something different or at least not done in a very long time
Most of hetchins creations were works of art 🙂
Not expensive but I really like the frame geometry and tube profiles on a CAAD10. I'm biased because I've got one (but not this one unfortunately).
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Continuing with the affordable theme I do like the Giant TCR in white. This one would look better with a black stem though.
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That 'Dale looks nicely proportioned. Not keen on the lime green and white paint job though. Do Canondale do road bikes in the gorgeous blue colour that they used to use on their top end race hardtails?
Anyone tried one of these?
De Rosa R838 Athena 2012
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Only prob is that they all come up a small sizes 🙁
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Had it made for me..
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Drool..
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and will be changing my boardman team carbon winter bike for this..
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Loud? My mate says it looks like a pair of trainers!
De Rosa R838 Athena 2012
Only prob is that they all come up a small sizes
Doh! - I did say clueless.....
So, a 54cm is quite large....
I've been wondering why I can't find any 59-60cm versions
My DeRosa.
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Nice Parlee BikeBouy.
Those old 80s Raleighs and what-have-you are minging, thank god for modern bikes like the Kuota!
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one of the loveliest bikes I have seen in the flesh.
Edit - but I know bugger all about the world of skinny tyres really!
Surprised nobody's posted this lovely machine up yet
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^ because they are rubbish
Surprised nobody's posted this lovely machine up yet
Its missing a reverb and some flat pedals.
Nice selection of Road Bikes Here !
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i only like the de rosas and the old ones, the rest are pretty fugly
Its missing a reverb and some flat pedals.
and it's owner
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Spent thursday building 2 parlee Z5sl's...quite nice.Bit stressful.Got another 3 in the shop and 3 on the way! 😯
Am I old fashioned in my thinking .It appears that every single carbon bike here looks like its been melted or styled by a blind chinaman.What happened to tasteful and elegant steel road bikes?
I rode my nice steel road bike today .I dont own a carbon one and think I will stick a new groupset on my 531 frame
thedevelopmentengineer - MemberAm I old fashioned in my thinking .It appears that every single carbon bike here looks like its been melted or styled by a blind chinaman.What happened to tasteful and elegant steel road bikes?
Ugly carbon ones are cheaper to make but can be sold for more money.
Get with the program, eh? 😀
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I will be having a modern geo rourke similar to above with all the trimmings for my 30th
The mrs has a skinny tubed easton tubed omega(mark reilly or enigma) ! Skinny tubes rock
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Freudian slip there?
I love the look of bianchi's and some of the less ostentatious italian bikes.
The really garish ones are horrible though, and I am not sure on deep section road wheels on anything other than TT bikes
Just my opinion though
Feather, demon, slate, make nice looking road bikes. Most of the junk on here looks like that Orange abomination and I'm not an Orange hater at all. I still like the old Peugeot I ride.
My storck, shortly to have SRAM fitted
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Storck alwyas felt a bit dead when i rode them.
If was spending that money itd be a seven axion im afraid . Lovely machine
Never ridden one, but I love the look of that Storck.
Supposed to be a harsh ride though I thought? Not ideal for my local roads.
Flange: will you be selling the 105 on it?
pure porn
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My two road bikes... I like 'em 8)
Indy Fab Titanium Factory Lightweight
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De Rosa Nuevo Classico (original one, not the recent re-release 😀 )
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Parlee, Storck and De Rosa are all lovely, just need a lottery win to fund them! 🙂
Parlee, Storck and De Rosa are all lovely, just need a lottery win to fund them! 🙂
If all the road bikes here had deep section rims they'd all look 10x better!!!!!! (I know about half do).
Supposed to be a harsh ride though I thought? Not ideal for my local roads.
Not at all - quite the opposite in fact. I struggled to buy into the whole 'Storck are amazing' thing that my LBS pushed, I mean how much better can a frame costing 2.5k be? Turns out, massively. Its far far faster than my Argon 18 (which is also carbon) and far more comfortable. There's certainly no flex but this doesn't translate into a rigid ride. I've ridden some pretty nice bikes, Cervelo, Colnago, Venge and so on but nothing comes close to this. Worth every penny in my book...
Stooo - I won't mate, but will have two 9-speed campag group sets up for grabs.
All this garish carbon hideousness....
Here's my bike
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If you've gotta go carbon - I'd like something along these lines
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Sam, your website is triggering all sorts of alarms on my PC.
Just so you know.