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Kuota v Radley

  • 06-05-2011 06:37AM
    #1
    Special Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭


    Opinions would be gratefully accepted here folks. Kuota Karma or a Radley Orion. Both with full Ultegra, both around the same price. If you have or had one of them you might let me know what you thought. Thanks


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  • #2
    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    Special Red wrote: »
    Opinions would be gratefully accepted here folks. Kuota Karma or a Radley Orion. Both with full Ultegra, both around the same price. If you have or had one of them you might let me know what you thought. Thanks

    If they're the same price, and the same spec groupset, it's only down to which has better wheels in terms of "best", though mostly down to which you prefer the look of!

    I'd go Kuota personally


  • #3
    Special Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Special Red


    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    If they're the same price, and the same spec groupset, it's only down to which has better wheels in terms of "best", though mostly down to which you prefer the look of!

    I'd go Kuota personally

    I suppose the fact that I put Kuota first would suggest the way I'm thinking. It is a beautiful looking bike. Any issues with it being Italian? Like some Fiats can be good looking but reliability wise are questionable. The Belgians don't make cars so I can't use the same comparison :p


  • #4
    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    Special Red wrote: »
    I suppose the fact that I put Kuota first would suggest the way I'm thinking. It is a beautiful looking bike. Any issues with it being Italian? Like some Fiats can be good looking but reliability wise are questionable. The Belgians don't make cars so I can't use the same comparison :p

    A bike's a bike. At that sorta price range they'll all do you sterling work (certainly the bike won't be the weak link!)


  • #5
    Special Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Special Red


    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    A bike's a bike. At that sorta price range they'll all do you sterling work (certainly the bike won't be the weak link!)

    Touché TE. Now I'm off to sit under the stairs and eat Mars bars.

    Any other opinions welcomed, keep them coming.


  • #6
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,950 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    radley - are they like chinarellos :p

    My weather

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  • #7
    dave.obrien
    Closed Accounts Posts: 573 ✭✭✭dave.obrien


    I have an Orion, it's a cracking bike! Mine has Ultegra, fsa os99 stem, deda hydra bars, fza seatpost, Fulcrum Racing 3 wheels, and is in the black, white and red colour scheme. I love it. Picks up speed brilliantly, and handles great, though it's not the lightest of frames around. But then, I'm no lightweight myself, so...

    I also like Kuota's. Both are good bikes, go for whichever you want more. Or else go for whichever has better wheels!


  • #8
    Special Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Special Red


    ednwireland wrote: »
    radley - are they like chinarellos :p

    I had to google what chinarello's were, get the joke now...


  • #9
    levitronix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭levitronix


    Wadley wiggins wides a chinarello


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