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Best 400-500ukp racing bike
Okay, I know you're all thinking - 2 seconds after Armstrong starts his latest challenge, elyob wants a racing bike. Well, yes, kind of. I've wanted one for ages, but just saw a Giant Bikes OCR 3 Bike - 05 for £425 and 0% interest .. Well, that's my sort of price level. I currently run spd pedals on my mountain bike, do I have to also buy new shoes if I go to racing bikes or will they run the same mechanism? Any recommandations on whether to get cheap 2nd hand instead? And where would you look? Thanks |
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Best 400-500ukp racing bike
elyob wrote:
Well, yes, kind of. I've wanted one for ages, but just saw a Giant Bikes OCR 3 Bike - 05 for £425 and 0% interest .. Well, that's my sort of price level. I currently run spd pedals on my mountain bike, do I have to also buy new shoes if I go to racing bikes or will they run the same mechanism? You can use your MTB pedals and shoes. The double sided MTB pedals are far better than their single sided road equivalent. -- Tony "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" Anon |
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Best 400-500ukp racing bike
"Tony Raven" wrote in message ... You can use your MTB pedals and shoes. The double sided MTB pedals are far better than their single sided road equivalent. Seconded. I use to use double sided spds on my mtbs and Looks on my road bike. Due to a knee problem I changed to double sided spuds on all then when buying a new road bike put single sided on it to pimp it up...mistake... they may look better (who cares?) but at the expense of easy engagement. -- Pete |
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Best 400-500ukp racing bike
in message , elyob
') wrote: Okay, I know you're all thinking - 2 seconds after Armstrong starts his latest challenge, elyob wants a racing bike. Well, yes, kind of. I've wanted one for ages, but just saw a Giant Bikes OCR 3 Bike - 05 for £425 and 0% interest .. Well, that's my sort of price level. I currently run spd pedals on my mountain bike, do I have to also buy new shoes if I go to racing bikes or will they run the same mechanism? SPuDs are perhaps not the best pedals on road bikes, but they do work, and you can get one-sided SPuDs with a bit of a platform. I used them for several years on road bikes before I migrated to Looks. Any recommandations on whether to get cheap 2nd hand instead? And where would you look? I would, but not obsessively. Check your local paper and local supermarket ad-boards for anything local (but only if you think you can distinguish the good from the crap) URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/urcautofaq/jsp/Wiki?BuyingSecondhand Ask your local bike club. Check eBay for anything nice that's local to you. But at the £4-500 price point I wouldn't have thought it was worth travelling far for, or bidding speculatively on, a bike you haven't seen. There are plenty of nice bikes around the £500 price point from reasonable makers. You won't get anything very special new (and you might just possibly get something fairly special second hand for that money) but if you buy new you should get a perfectly good bike on which you'll have a lot of fun. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; lovely alternative to rice. |
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On 07/02/2005 18:03:02 "elyob" wrote: Okay, I know you're all thinking - 2 seconds after Armstrong starts his latest challenge, elyob wants a racing bike. Well, yes, kind of. I've wanted one for ages, but just saw a Giant Bikes OCR 3 Bike - 05 for £425 and 0% interest .. Well, that's my sort of price level. I currently run spd pedals on my mountain bike, do I have to also buy new shoes if I go to racing bikes or will they run the same mechanism? Any recommandations on whether to get cheap 2nd hand instead? And where would you look? Thanks You can do a`lot worse than the Giant, and you have a sensible budget so should be able to get a good bike, second hand may well get you a beauty for £500, just remember to buy with your head and not your heart. -- Buck I would rather be out on my Catrike http://www.catrike.co.uk |
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Best 400-500ukp racing bike
Well, yes, kind of. I've wanted one for ages, but just saw a Giant Bikes OCR 3 Bike - 05 for £425 and 0% interest .. Well, that's my sort of price level. I currently run spd pedals on my mountain bike, do I have to also buy new shoes if I go to racing bikes or will they run the same mechanism? Any recommandations on whether to get cheap 2nd hand instead? And where would you look? The Specialised Allez got a good write up in April's Cycling Plus. You might also consider looking in the small ads of Cycling Plus and Cycling Weekly. I have bought three bikes from www.adtrader.co.uk , actually one was 'free to a good home' and the other two were bargains - a nearly mint Ridgeback hybrid and a decent Dawes Galaxy. There currently a free Carlton womand racer in the Peterborough area advertised on the site. Have a look you might find something that takes your fancy. Vernon |
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[following up to myself - bad form]
in message , Simon Brooke ') wrote: in message , elyob ') wrote: Okay, I know you're all thinking - 2 seconds after Armstrong starts his latest challenge, elyob wants a racing bike. Well, yes, kind of. I've wanted one for ages, but just saw a Giant Bikes OCR 3 Bike - 05 for £425 and 0% interest .. There are plenty of nice bikes around the £500 price point from reasonable makers. You won't get anything very special new (and you might just possibly get something fairly special second hand for that money) but if you buy new you should get a perfectly good bike on which you'll have a lot of fun. It occurs to me that someone else posted that question recently and one of their options was a Lemond which was very nicely specified for £500 - carbon forks and reasonable components. Worth a look. Also the Claud Butlers are not at all bad. But Giant are OK too. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ,/| _.--''^``-...___.._.,; /, \'. _-' ,--,,,--''' { \ `_-'' ' / `;;' ; ; ; ._..--'' ._,,, _..' .;.' (,_....----''' (,..--'' |
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elyob wrote:
Well, yes, kind of. I've wanted one for ages, but just saw a Giant Bikes OCR 3 Bike - 05 for £425 and 0% interest .. Well, that's my sort of price level. I currently run spd pedals on my mountain bike, do I have to also buy new shoes if I go to racing bikes or will they run the same mechanism? I bought an OCR 1T in 2003 and I still love it. I'm currently trying to sort a replacement headset, but the original is still working, just not as smooth as I'd like. The bike accelerates like sh*t off a stick and corners on rails. If they're still shipping new OCRs with Hutchinson Carbon Comp tyres expect fantastic performance for a month until the ultra sticky rubber has all vanished and they start puncturing. Obviously... don't take my word for it, ride it first. Jon |
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says... Okay, I know you're all thinking - 2 seconds after Armstrong starts his latest challenge, elyob wants a racing bike. Well, yes, kind of. I've wanted one for ages, but just saw a Giant Bikes OCR 3 Bike - 05 for £425 and 0% interest .. Well, that's my sort of price level. I currently run spd pedals on my mountain bike, do I have to also buy new shoes if I go to racing bikes or will they run the same mechanism? Any recommandations on whether to get cheap 2nd hand instead? And where would you look? A friend of mine bought a second hand bike from a small shop which builds bikes for the racing fraternity. http://www.huissoonsport.nl/index.html. Sorry, it's Dutch. He paid 550 *Euros* for a nice bike with a Campy Chorus groupset. -- Mike |
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