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Junior road bikes - Wiggins Rouen Sora

  • 27-05-2019 5:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭


    Heads up here for anyone looking for a nice kids road bike. I'm selling my kids bikes, for all the bloody use they got outta them��. One hates cycling and the other has inherited a new bike.

    These were the top model Wiggins with carbon fork, and 9 speed Sora. They were £450 new, with ****e wheels and tectro brakes. I upgraded the brakes to Shimano / tiagra, on one and sram on the other (front brakes are long reach calipers so they're std "shimano"). I upgraded the wheels to aksiums, the tyres to Continental gp4000 II's, nice bar tape and posh bottle holders!

    I researched the hell outta these when buying and there's nothing like them for the money. I got them ordered from the UK cos they didn't offer the sora model in Ireland. I think they're absolutely gorgeous and I think they're worth €300 each.


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    Pics taken just now without even a rub of a rag.


    Edit top tube is about 50cm.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭boomdocker


    700c or 650c wheels?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    boomdocker wrote: »
    700c or 650c wheels?

    Full size, regular road bike 700's

    Cranks are 165.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭lennymc


    What age/height are these suitable for bloke?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,522 ✭✭✭martyc5674


    Where are you based??
    Possibly interested in one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Can't find any geometry charts but it's the biggest size the come in. TT measures about 49-50. My two are tallish enough for 13 & 15 but we have the bikes a couple of years now, and they certainly haven't outgrown them.

    You'd really have to try for size - like how big is a 16 year old, how long is a piece of string...


    I'm in Ballycullen / Knocklyon.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,231 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I'll take one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Sound. First to the door gets their pick of the two! :)

    (the other one is red in tape and cages)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,522 ✭✭✭martyc5674


    fat bloke wrote: »
    Sound. First to the door gets their pick of the two! :)

    (the other one is red in tape and cages)

    I’m out so... too big for my kids. Was hoping they were the 43.
    Marty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭lennymc


    fat bloke wrote: »
    Can't find any geometry charts but it's the biggest size the come in. TT measures about 49-50. My two are tallish enough for 13 & 15 but we have the bikes a couple of years now, and they certainly haven't outgrown them.

    You'd really have to try for size - like how big is a 16 year old, how long is a piece of string...


    I'm in Ballycullen / Knocklyon.

    ah, they sound way too big for a 5 yr old. LOL. Im out unfortunately


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Ha ha ha. Yeah, small bit big Lenny I reckon :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭Plastik


    lennymc wrote: »
    ah, they sound way too big for a 5 yr old. LOL. Im out unfortunately

    Depending on height I might know of a fairly immaculate Islabike Luath 24 for about the same price. Might also be too big though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    lennymc wrote: »
    ah, they sound way too big for a 5 yr old. LOL. Im out unfortunately

    For a while there, I thought, I'd fallen into a coma for about 8 years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    More pics. Just washed shined and greased both. This is the other bike with sram caliper on the rear and red tape and cages. One tyre is a conti other is mavic wts yksion




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Lumen wrote: »
    I'll take one.

    Pm sent Lumen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Little bump here to minimise next week's inevitable "Ah Jaysus, I'd have loved one a dem if I'd only known!:(" after-the-facters


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭Idunnowho


    I'm interested but need to check sizing etc. PM sent
    Offer asking pending inspection.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Sold. And sold.

    Thanks Lumen and Idunnowho. Best of luck with them.

    Ten years and ten bikes later, I think this officially ends my campaign to make cyclists of my kids. A campaign ending ultimately in failure. - Henceforth all my bargain bike offerings shall be adult sized.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,231 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I like this shop.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,671 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    fat bloke wrote: »
    Ten years and ten bikes later, I think this officially ends my campaign to make cyclists of my kids. A campaign ending ultimately in failure. - Henceforth all my bargain bike offerings shall be adult sized.
    i see your mistake. you should have refused to buy bikes for your kids - in fact, refused to allow them to cycle at all. that's how you'd have made it seem cool.


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