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new road bike advice - €1500 to €2,000
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21-03-2012 9:11pm#1
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At that budget, you'll have no difficulty in getting sorted, and Campagnolo groupsets are certainly still available. Stick with a Compact groupset('gears) These have two (50/34) chainrings rather than a double (52/39) which may make hills tougher when starting back or triple (overly complex and tricky to set up correctly)
You're in the price point for good/entry level carbon fibre frames, so dont buy too hastily and you'll do fine. Take a good look around some of the Irish shops sites and try to create a shortlist, above all, call into your local bike shop and see what they have to offer/suggest (but DONT go for the first shiny thing you see !)
Something like this perhaps? Pinarello FP1 with campagnolo Veloce group for €1800 or so
PS: THis should be in the regular cycling page, not in the training logs page. Suggest Mods move it?0 -
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I bought one of these and its fantastic up to over 100km at the weekends already. (I'm over weight and middle aged) well worth going to Athlone to touch and feel rather than goin internet route, proper fitting there too
RT 57 @1650
http://planetxireland.com/products-page/bikes/
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Links aren't working but yeah, my bad, didn't read the fine printOk thanks but I just what to check we are talking about this bike
/http://http://www.cube.eu/en/road/pro-comp/agree-gtc-race/
and not this one
http://http://www.cube.eu/en/road/pro-comp/agree-gtc-pro/
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I don't have a Boardman, but the bikes themselves do have a better reputation than Halfords. Search the forum and you'll find a good bit of discussion of both.
Bear in mind that if you have (or someone you know has) insurance with AXA then you can get a 15% discount at Halfords with the AXA plus card.
The Union flag wouldn't bother me any more than the tricolore on a Bianchi: if it genuinely bothers you to the point that you'd take a blade to a carbon frame :eek: then just don't buy a British brand - or, if you must, get a decal made up with a nice picture of Michael Collins and Peig Sayers to cover it
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