upgrading bike any advice

tonti27 · 10-07-2009 12:08pm #1

hi people i am upgrading from my liteweight mtb to a racer (have been doing between 60 to 300 km per week on previous bike with slick tyres) went to local bike shop he recommended kellys arc 1.9 bike any advice please i only took up cycling 9mts ago and am loving it,have budget of €1200

Soccerchipie · 10-07-2009 2:35pm

Would that bike shop happen to be Stagg cycles..... seem to be pushing Kellys bikes .... and the price upwards.... Some good value kellys bikes until supplier pushed up the prices recently.

sockpuppets · 10-07-2009 2:39pm

cube make some pretty sweet bikes. check them out at http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/
free delivery to ireland

Captain Havoc · 10-07-2009 2:54pm

I'm still an advocat of the LIDL bike.

tonti27 · 10-07-2009 3:45pm

its not Stagg cycles its a place in the north east that has the kellys arc bike it is a big can of worms as indicated!!

davgtrek · 10-07-2009 3:49pm

yes. go for the lidl racer.
savage components. great value. €900
save yourself €300 off your budget.

loads of threads on it in boards.

keep away from kelly's.
they are real "local dealer who will change to some other brand to push next year" bikes.

Soccerchipie · 10-07-2009 5:59pm

Agree with the CUBE bikes... look great... any suppliers in Ireland??

DirkVoodoo · 10-07-2009 6:23pm

Yeah, gotta say the Cube bikes look very nice. CRC sell them.

copacetic · 10-07-2009 6:36pm

cycleways used to stock a lot of bikes from cube also.

tonti27 · 10-07-2009 9:02pm

can these bikes still be bought from them or was it a one off special and also do they come assembled

JacksonHeightsOwn · 10-07-2009 9:57pm

tonti27 wrote: »

can these bikes still be bought from them or was it a one off special and also do they come assembled

says they`re in at the minute

Soccerchipie · 11-07-2009 10:25am

Ya need to order the bike in-store for home delivery.... fully assembled.. just turn the handlebars.
:rolleyes:

upgrading bike any advice

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