Time for a "NEW BIKE" superthread

greenspurs

Please Mods, its time, there are new "Advice for new bike" , "Bike for 100" , "New bike advice" threads being launched every day!

I think its time to bunch them into the one thread? Just a suggestion... :P

Idleater

Why even create a megathread. Just put a link to canyon in the FAQ, sit back and yawn.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Those type threads generally don’t work in my opinion as people who are not looking for a bike tend to ignore it after a while so questions don’t get answered very quickly or at all in some cases.

What Username Guidelines

Yeah that carrera in halfords is decent, but if you're planning on going further than 3km, you should consider spending a little more maybe?

magicbastarder

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

Yeah that carrera in halfords is decent, but if you're planning on going further than 3km, you should consider spending a little more maybe?

does it take mudguards, though?

greenspurs

There are at least 2 new threads every day though, if they could all head to the same thread, they might find the info that they need.
At the moment, the same questions and answers are just being rehashed and reposted continuously.
One mega thread would just tidy up the forum, imo.

siochain

it's fine the way it is, different budgets, different needs so no harm in having separate treads.

If people ain't interested don't go into the tread.

magicbastarder

i think a megathread would be messy, people would be responding to different requests for advice and getting confused as to what response was relevant to what question. the maintenance thread works (i like to think anyway) because often a question will be solved in one or two replies - requests for bike buying advice can go over a page.

DavyD_83

magicbastarder wrote: »

i think a megathread would be messy, people would be responding to different requests for advice and getting confused as to what response was relevant to what question. the maintenance thread works (i like to think anyway) because often a question will be solved in one or two replies - requests for bike buying advice can go over a page.

A 'current best value bike to work options' sticky could cover a lot of it. People with other budgets or requirements I think make sense to be in individual threads

Kaisr Sose

greenspurs wrote: »

Please Mods, its time, there are new "Advice for new bike" , "Bike for 100" , "New bike advice" threads being launched every day!

I think its time to bunch them into the one thread? Just a suggestion... :P

People won’t realise and will still create a new thread. Happens already with Bike to Work. Every q that could be asked has probably been asked and answered many times, yet people still ask ... yawn!

Fighting Tao

Ok, I'll try going first! Please excuse my ignorance.

I can use the bike to work again next January. I have been looking around and love the look of the 2017 Cannondale SuperSix EVO in Volt colour. However, I presume that by January next year it will be unavailable.

https://www.cannondale.com/International/bike/Productdetail?Id=1c10969c-b602-4575-98e3-d6e4eb94957c

One thing that concerned me about it is the gearing.
Front: 52/36
Rear: 11-28, 11-speed

I currently have:
Front: 50/34
Rear: 11-32. 11-speed

My current bike is used for spins of anywhere from 20-150km and I don't mind climbing up to 1500m on it.


So I have two questions:
1. What difference would I notice in the gear ratios on the flat and climbing?
2. Any alternative bikes I should look at (needs to be a bit of a madder colour as most seem to be matt black)?


ETA: I would be looking for Ultegra and have a budget of circa €2000-3000.

Inquitus

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Ok, I'll try going first! Please excuse my ignorance.

I can use the bike to work again next January. I have been looking around and love the look of the 2017 Cannondale SuperSix EVO in Volt colour. However, I presume that by January next year it will be unavailable.

https://www.cannondale.com/International/bike/Productdetail?Id=1c10969c-b602-4575-98e3-d6e4eb94957c

One thing that concerned me about it is the gearing.
Front: 52/36
Rear: 11-28, 11-speed

I currently have:
Front: 50/34
Rear: 11-32. 11-speed

My current bike is used for spins of anywhere from 20-150km and I don't mind climbing up to 1500m on it.


So I have two questions:
1. What difference would I notice in the gear ratios on the flat and climbing?
2. Any alternative bikes I should look at (needs to be a bit of a madder colour as most seem to be matt black)?

You'd be losing your Granny gearing if you ever use it, you will be going from 34/32 to 36/28 which is quite a difference. It is however easy to change cassettes and chain rings if required.

Fighting Tao

Inquitus wrote: »

You'd be losing your Granny gearing if you ever use it, you will be going from 34/32 to 36/28 which is quite a difference. It is however easy to change cassettes and chain rings if required.

Thank you Inquitus. I love my granny gearing. I don't think I'd manage without it :eek:

rayzzor83

Which aero bike? Merida 5000,6000 or equal giant propel advanced?

I have a basic entry level road bike and mainly do short fast solo spins of 25-100 km distance and average speed of approx 28-33 km

Would like to do club racing next year after more group cycle spin experience.

Have a budget of 2-3500 euro with the BTW scheme.

Giant merida and cube are the brands available at Lbs.

Thanks for any advice ray.

Brian

https://twitter.com/PCPartPicker/status/980521150651486208

Soon™

py

Looking for a road bike with following for ~2000 but haven't found any yet:

Carbon
Full Ultegra 8000 hydraulic
Wheels are unimportant as I'll be replacing them
Endurance frameset preferable but not stuck on that.

Would be B2W but can purchase online/offline.