New bike up to £2500 / €2750

el tel

Inspired by recent threads on Planet-X carbon bikes I've decided that it's time I put my reservations behind me and went for a bike manufactured from this new fangled material . Through the profitable sale of my Litespeed Ghisallo and a few other bits and peices I have up to £2500 to spend and am looking for the most flash for the cash and as light as possible.

I know you guys have your fingers on the pulse of the latest and greatest deals so I'm looking for suggestions. One thing is I'm not a fan of Specialised bikes.

As a benchmark my list has one contender so far -

Scott Addict R2 2008, Durace 7800, Mavic Kysrium SL premium, and Ritchey carbon bars, stem etc. (14.7 lb) It's £2500 but the intergrated seat post is a wee concern as the overall understatedness.

All advice welcome, thanks!

Ryaner

For €2500 you could build up a Carbon Ribble bike with SRAM Force 2010 and some Easton bits to finish it off.


*This may be the bike I plan on building early next year when sterling gets weaker again.

Lumen

Left field suggestion....

Argon 18 with SRAM, maybe something like this from here. The prices seem a bit random.

Lumen

Or a Canyon.

Lumen

The right decision is so 'ard. Geddit. :pac:

Ryaner

Lumen wrote: »

Left field suggestion....

Argon 18 with SRAM, maybe something like this from here. The prices seem a bit random.

From the link

Normal Price £2,624.97
Offer Price £2,999.99

WTF?

Lumen

Ryaner wrote: »

WTF?

I see:

Normal Price €3,000.87
Offer Price €3,429.59
Original Total @ £2624.97
Special Offer Total @ £2199.99

el tel

I think I perefer the Wilier to the Canyon.

TinyExplosions

Planet X Titanium with SRAM Red -about 2200

Lumen

FWIW I don't think Red is worth the difference over Force.

Force is prettier and (apparently) more functional, only a bit heavier, and loads cheaper.

Raam

el tel wrote: »

I think I perefer the Wilier to the Canyon.

I would agree with you.

TinyExplosions

Lumen wrote: »

FWIW I don't think Red is worth the difference over Force.

Force is prettier and (apparently) more functional, only a bit heavier, and loads cheaper.

You lie like a lying thing!

Well, ok not quite like a lying thing... it's true a lot of the pro teams use the Force front derailleur, but it's all about the weight man

Lumen

Depends whether you like angular shiny stuff.

2 Wheels Good

Heading to the Cycleshow in London in just over 3 weeks, might be worth a look to see all the new 2010 bits & pieces

TinyExplosions

Lumen wrote: »

Depends whether you like angular shiny stuff.

snipped images of loveliness...

Yup, I'd have Red every time if money was no object

scottreynolds

Could you find a special on the boardman red, zipp, carbon -- it sounds good......

Actually changed my mind. I'd go for a new frame conalgo or something. the bike you have now is pretty cool and I don't think you'll get anything additional by buying a new bike. Get new wheels and/or a new frame for that money.

el tel

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Planet X Titanium with SRAM Red -about 2200

Thanks, very interesting but seems that they are out of medium frames and the spec i'd like. I think the Litepeed I had was a better proposition all told

blorg

Why did you sell the Litespeed?

Lumen

Cheap Canyon frameset, maybe do a custom build?

el tel

blorg wrote: »

Why did you sell the Litespeed?

Profit basically - I couldn't miss the chance of making £450 on it. I've always made money on any second hand bike that I've onwed! It was a an old one and I would ultimatey rather have a newer one but can't justify (i.e. afford) the price. It also rode a bit strangely, so much so that I could barely take both hands of the handle bars at the same time.

Murph100

Very good price on this :

http://www.slanecycles.com/productdetail.aspx?id=1322&subid=328&catid=72

With plenty left over for bling gruppo and wheels.