Carrera TDF Mens Ltd Road Bike

Pompous

Tomorrow I will buy this bike for €309.

If anyone has anything to say for or against it, I'm all ears

macnab

They are a good solid starter bike, a little heavy but you get what you pay for.
They also make an excellent 2nd/winter bike if you decide to buy a better bike in the future. I recently upgraded a TDF with second hand parts, it now weighs 9.4kg (from 11.7kg) at a cost of about €200.

Pompous

I saw someone say, in a review, that the wheels alone are 4kg on this bike. Is that a normal weight for wheels? Could I or should I get lighter wheels?

macnab

Here is my personal Wheel Weight List
All fully dressed with Continental GP4000s tyres and 70g tubes, rear has 240g cassette.

Shimano RS80 c24 €405 PlanetX special
Total weight: 2320g

Mavic pro rims Capag Hub €230 2hd hand
Total: 2590g

Richey pro ds wheel, Boardman Team Carbon
Total 3040g

TDF wheelset, Carrera TDF
Total 3750g (4000g with original tyres & tubes)

Shimanos RS21 €88 Rose Sale
Total 2760g

Omega Mach 1, Dolan fit
Total 3450g

lennymc

i think the older TDF was a lot better than the current one. The current one has shimano tourney 14 spd iirc, whereas the older one had claris or 2300 8 spd. I had two of the older ones and did a lot of miles on them. If you have an axa card you will get a further 10% off.

siochain

have the previous model for 3 years now and its done me grand only thing I've changed on it were the tires

Tigerandahalf

I have mine a year and it has been grand. Weight is not an issue as you could have twice as much around your belly. There are different models over the years. The wheels now seem to be changed. I have yet to get a puncture on mine.

Subcomandante Marcos

The old version was a good bike for the price, the new version is pretty much a POS. Tourny gearing, heavier fork, cheaper finishing kit, it's as cheap as it is for a reason.

You'll get much better value for money on the adverts subforum here if you post a wanted thread.

griffdaddy

I just picked this up today from halfords. Pretty happy with it but still getting used to it coming from a hybrid. I find it unusual that there're no number on the gear shifters, is that normal? Find it difficult to get my feet in the pedals as well. I can get one in but the second is always difficult 😕

Darkglasses

griffdaddy wrote: »

I just picked this up today from halfords. Pretty happy with it but still getting used to it coming from a hybrid. I find it unusual that there're no number on the gear shifters, is that normal? Find it difficult to get my feet in the pedals as well. I can get one in but the second is always difficult 😕

Yeah it's normal not to have numbers on your shifters, somewhat surprisingly. I think no Shimano shifters have numbers on them from Tiagra upwards?

RobFowl

Grand bike for the money.

griffdaddy

Darkglasses wrote: »

Yeah it's normal not to have numbers on your shifters, somewhat surprisingly. I think no Shimano shifters have numbers on them from Tiagra upwards?

I thought it was a bit strange. Find myself relying on the gears less than I did with Hybrid. Definitely need to get my posture worked out a bit better on the carrera but loved the two 40 minute spins I've taken on it so far. Looking forward to attempting a proper trip up the Dublin mountains on it.


By the way op, if you reserve the bike on the halfords website you'll get it even cheaper. They have a special online offer at the moment. Ended up costing me about 285 or something. I had a bike to work voucher made out for the original price of 359 so picked up a very good lock as well and have some mudguards ordered