I'm looking for a road bike...

dave.obrien

Hey, i'm looking to get into road cycling and joining a club, and i need to get myself a road bike. I'm 6", would fit a 58 or so frame, and have a budget of about €400. Anyone looking to off-load anything that fits the description?

Raam

You might get away with a 56. Have a look at the BeOne range on www.chainreactioncycles.com

Hi

dave.obrien wrote: »

Hey, i'm looking to get into road cycling and joining a club, and i need to get myself a road bike. I'm 6", would fit a 58 or so frame, and have a budget of about €400. Anyone looking to off-load anything that fits the description?

PM if you are interested in a bike. I have a mate is is selling his. He's only used it 3 times as he does mountain-biking as well.

dave.obrien

Raam wrote: »

You might get away with a 56. Have a look at the BeOne range on www.chainreactioncycles.com

I've been looking at them, and the claud butler san remo, the claud butler criterium and the dawes 300 on www.bikeoutlet.co.uk , what do you make of them? I don't want to break the bank, but i've been doing about 200km per week on a hybrid, and feel that i'm ready for a step up.

Hi wrote: »

PM if you are interested in a bike. I have a mate is is selling his. He's only used it 3 times as he does mountain-biking as well.

what kind of bike does your friend have? i'd love to know more about this.

thanks for the quick responses, by the way, any help is really appreciated.

ba

dave, check this out:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/Focus_Summit_2008/5360032372/

full shimano sora groupset, and carbon fork for 450eur tho.

dave.obrien

Nice! That one looks great, but i'll have to do some maths on the budget. Cheers for the heads up though brian.

dave.obrien

Another question, I've been looking at loads of online bikes with Shimano FC-A050 components. I presume these are the most basic of Shimano parts and would be better off looking at something with tiagra or sora, or do I have it wrong?

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dave.obrien wrote: »

Another question, I've been looking at loads of online bikes with Shimano FC-A050 components. I presume these are the most basic of Shimano parts and would be better off looking at something with tiagra or sora, or do I have it wrong?

No, you have it correct, but you might want to start at Tiagra or stretch it to 105 if you can, my first road bike came with 2200 components on it, which is below the sora range. Apart from the front derailleur, it is all 105 now, with Tiagra shifters. I had to hunt this stuff down on ebay,adverts.ie etc, to get the most competitive prices, so you are better off paying for it from the off,which I learned on my second road bike which is Dura Ace components from Planet X

dave.obrien

I see... Cheers for the advice, it's really appreciated.

eggo40

If interested i have a 52cm Lapierre bike with accessories/clipless pedals/wireless cateye computer/cycling shoes/mits and other accesories for €550. It's classified as a large frame by lapierre! I'm 5'11" and it suits me fine!

dave.obrien

eggo40 wrote: »

If interested i have a 52cm Lapierre bike with accessories/clipless pedals/wireless cateye computer/cycling shoes/mits and other accesories for €550. It's classified as a large frame by lapierre! I'm 5'11" and it suits me fine!

That sounds good, what kind of frame is it? What's the groupset? Cheers.

eggo40

Here is the spec for the bike!

7005 aluminum frame,

EASTON CARBON EC70 fork,
SHIMANO 2200 derailleurs,
SHIMANO 2200 shifters,
SHIMANO 2200 levers, PROMAX ALU rim brakes,

PM if you want to see more pictures of the bike & accessories later on if you want.

dave.obrien

Thanks, but with the focus summit shown above, for a lot less money, you seem to get a better groupset, so i think that this one might be out of my budget! Cheers for the offer though, it is appreciated.