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Buying new road bike questions

  • 05-11-2014 10:26am
    #1
    tilting tim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭


    Started cycling back in May after buying a second hand bike. Nice spec, cf fork, full ultegra components, upgraded wheels. Weighing around 9.5kg. Only figured out after it was 53/39 rather than a 50/34.
    I am thinking of buying a better bike and keeping this one for training/turbo trainer.
    Should I change to a 50/34 or stay on the bigger gears? Find I will be down in the easiest gear for hard climbs but can keep cadence up above 70. There is lots of hills where I cycle.
    Also since I started i have improved my speed from 18km/h to around 25km/h now. Will this improve a lot if I get a bike weighing 8kg and better components?
    One more thing if I have €2500 to spend should I go second hand again or new?


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  • #2
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    tilting tim wrote: »
    Started cycling back in May after buying a second hand bike. Nice spec, cf fork, full ultegra components, upgraded wheels. Weighing around 9.5kg. Only figured out after it was 53/39 rather than a 50/34.
    I am thinking of buying a better bike and keeping this one for training/turbo trainer.
    Should I change to a 50/34 or stay on the bigger gears? Find I will be down in the easiest gear for hard climbs but can keep cadence up above 70. There is lots of hills where I cycle.
    Also since I started i have improved my speed from 18km/h to around 25km/h now. Will this improve a lot if I get a bike weighing 8kg and better components?
    One more thing if I have €2500 to spend should I go second hand again or new?

    You won't find any huge difference with a new bike, that will come with an increase in fitness.

    If I was spending €2500 I'd want to buy new unless you were getting something reasonably new and unmarked but saaying that my good bike was a used bike but had less than 50km on it but nearly €700 of the price of s brand new bike.


  • #3
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    Sounds like you could do with getting a compact (50/34) or perhaps a mid compact (52/36). I see canyon have those on most of their 2015 range there's no point killing yourself or your knees on the hills just so you can brag about riding the big rings.

    As above it sounds like you have a good bike under you already. Why not just swap out the crankset? As for speed train hard/lose weight from yourself on a heavy bike and you'll be very fast on a lighter bike.

    If you want a new bike though by all means go for it at 2.5k I'd be looking new and probably di2.


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