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Are Viking bikes good?
I'm thinking of buying either the Viking Vittoria for £359 or the
Claud Butler Melano for £389. But which is the best value for money? http://corporate.marketworks.com/storefrontprofiles/ DeluxeSFItemDetail.aspx?sid=1&sfid=101713&c=400012 26&i=64350776 Model Type :Alloy Road Frame Construction :6061 Aluminium mainframe with replaceable gear hanger Forks :Steel steerer Carbon Blades Frame Size :56cm (22"). Wheel Size :700 with 23c Kenda Tyres Gear System : 21 speed Shimano gears STI button shifters. With a 52/42/32 tooth Pro-wheel Chainset combined with a 13/26 cassette. Shimano Sora front & rear derailleurs. Wheel Specification :Weinmann XR18 deep section alloy rims & Quando cassette hubs with quick release levers Brakes :Shimano STI levers with Tektro R556 Alloy Dual Pivot Side Brakes. Handlebar and Stem :11cm Aheadset Stem & 42cm Anatomic drop bars Additional :Alloy Micro adjust seatpost, Viking Racing saddle , Alloy Cranks with cartridge bottom bracket system, Integrated Cartridge aheadset system. Frame Colour :Gloss Black Fork Colour :Carbon Cycle Condition :Brand New sealed in Box. This Bike comes 90% Built, Fitting of pedals, stem/bars, front wheel, front brake cable & seat. Gears & brakes also require some adjustment. ----------------------------------------------- http://www.bikes2udirect.com/B2090.html?id=hvcgDKy5 Key features include: Carbon fibre aero forks Ritchey alloy handlebar & stem Aero profile 6061 alloy frame with semi-integrated headtube Shimano Sora chainset, 16 speed STI gears & Octalink B/B Tektro dual pivot Q/R brakes Selle San Marco Ponza saddle Rigida Nova rims, Shimano Sora Q/R hubs & Kenda tyres Thanks in advance for any advice |
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blackhead writtificated
I'm thinking of buying either the Viking Vittoria for £359 or the Claud Butler Melano for £389. But which is the best value for money? Don't touch the Viking - overpriced crap. That it is cheap and /still/ overpriced lets you know how crap it is. The Claud Butler looks like it might be okay, but the 'carbon' forks make me suspicious. Go here www.edinburghbicycle.com and have a looksie at the Revolution Continental 08 [1]. It's a good, no nonsense bike with a lifetime warranty on the frame and EBC has excellent customer service. Space for proper mudguards if you want 'em too. No carbon forks, but it's alloy ones are lighter than the heavy lump of poo on the Viking - no carbon fork has ever listed a hi-ten steel steerer as a selling point.[2] I'd recommend good 10 minute test ride before you slap hundreds of pounds down on a bike. [1] This might take you straight to it: www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLqrymode.a4p?f%5FProductID=9447&f [2] Cheap, light, strong. Pick any two. Unless it's hi-ten steel. That's just cheap. And flexible. And heavy. And utterly out of place on a 'carbon' fork. Which is probably just a normal heavy fork with a carbon wrap. |
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blackhead said the following on 28/03/2008 13:13:
I'm thinking of buying either the Viking Vittoria for £359 or the Claud Butler Melano for £389. But which is the best value for money? http://corporate.marketworks.com/storefrontprofiles/ DeluxeSFItemDetail.aspx?sid=1&sfid=101713&c=400012 26&i=64350776 Frankly, based purely on the spec I would say the Viking bike is horrendously overpriced. Model Type :Alloy Road Frame Construction :6061 Aluminium mainframe with replaceable gear hanger Forks :Steel steerer Carbon Blades Frame Size :56cm (22"). Wheel Size :700 with 23c Kenda Tyres Gear System : 21 speed Shimano gears STI button shifters. With a 52/42/32 tooth Pro-wheel Chainset combined with a 13/26 cassette. Shimano Sora front & rear derailleurs. Wheel Specification :Weinmann XR18 deep section alloy rims & Quando cassette hubs with quick release levers Brakes :Shimano STI levers with Tektro R556 Alloy Dual Pivot Side Brakes. Handlebar and Stem :11cm Aheadset Stem & 42cm Anatomic drop bars Additional :Alloy Micro adjust seatpost, Viking Racing saddle , Alloy Cranks with cartridge bottom bracket system, Integrated Cartridge aheadset system. Frame Colour :Gloss Black Fork Colour :Carbon Cycle Condition :Brand New sealed in Box. This Bike comes 90% Built, Fitting of pedals, stem/bars, front wheel, front brake cable & seat. Gears & brakes also require some adjustment. -- Paul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ |
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On Mar 28, 1:13*pm, blackhead wrote:
I'm thinking of buying either the Viking Vittoria for £359 or the Claud Butler Melano for £389. But which is the best value for money? http://corporate.marketworks.com/storefrontprofiles/ DeluxeSFItemDetail.aspx?sid=1&sfid=101713&c=400012 26&i=64350776 http://www.bikes2udirect.com/B2090.html?id=hvcgDKy5 Of those two, Claud Butler every time. I have never heard of Viking. CB has (or, at least, used to have: I've not heard anything to the contrary) a good reputation. Somehow the Viking looks misshapen at the front, too. It's just... wrong, somehow. PhilD -- |
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PhilD wrote:
I have never heard of Viking. They are more famous for selling 99 quid bike shaped objects. I agree with everyone else that this looks very overpriced fro what it is. Arthur -- Arthur Clune PGP/GPG Key: http://www.clune.org/pubkey.txt The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting - Milan Kundera |
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Mark T wrote:
blackhead writtificated I'm thinking of buying either the Viking Vittoria for £359 or the Claud Butler Melano for £389. But which is the best value for money? Don't touch the Viking - overpriced crap. That it is cheap and /still/ overpriced lets you know how crap it is. The Claud Butler looks like it might be okay, but the 'carbon' forks make me suspicious. You're right about Viking, wrong (in my opinion) about Claud Butler. I've seen a number of these - they are good value for the price (although in my opinion if you can afford it you'll get better value by spending a bit more). Go here www.edinburghbicycle.com and have a looksie at the Revolution Continental 08 [1]. It's a good, no nonsense bike with a lifetime warranty on the frame and EBC has excellent customer service. Agreed. I'd recommend good 10 minute test ride before you slap hundreds of pounds down on a bike. Absolutely. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ Windows 95: You, you, you! You make a grown man cry... M. Jagger/K. Richards |
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On 28 Mar, 14:10, Mark T
pleasegivegenerously@warmail*turn_up_the_heat_to_ reply*.com.invalid wrote: blackhead writtificated I'm thinking of buying either the Viking Vittoria for £359 or the Claud Butler Melano for £389. But which is the best value for money? Don't touch the Viking - overpriced crap. *That it is cheap and /still/ overpriced lets you know how crap it is. The Claud Butler looks like it might be okay, but the 'carbon' forks make me suspicious. Go here www.edinburghbicycle.com and have a looksie at the Revolution Continental 08 [1]. *It's a good, no nonsense bike with a lifetime warranty on the frame and EBC has excellent customer service. * Yes, went in there today and they do come across as a classy setup with good, helpful staff. Space for proper mudguards if you want 'em too. *No carbon forks, but it's alloy ones are lighter than the heavy lump of poo on the Viking - no carbon fork has ever listed a hi-ten steel steerer as a selling point.[2] I'd recommend good 10 minute test ride before you slap hundreds of pounds down on a bike. [1] This might take you straight to it: www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLqrymode.a4p?f%5FProductID=9447&f [2] Cheap, light, strong. *Pick any two. *Unless it's hi-ten steel. *That's just cheap. *And flexible. *And heavy. *And utterly out of place on a 'carbon' fork. *Which is probably just a normal heavy fork with a carbon wrap. Colin MacDonald last week suggested : "EBC own-brand stuff is generally reasonable value, but you get what you pay for. The Continental, for example, has pretty low-spec components but that's why it is £350. If you're happy with that, Chain Reaction are doing last year's BeOne Briza 2.0 (no, I'm not on commission) for £250 and it has a more or less identical spec. For £350 the Storm 3.0 has Sora kit rather than 2200 as well as carbon forks." So I'm swayed in two directions by the BeOne Briza 2.0 or the Storm 3.0. Are carbon forks and Sora kit worth an extra £100 over alloy forks and shimano 2200 for someone that wants an enjoyable 10 mile bike ride over the weekend and the odd 5 miles during the week? How much do carbon forks reduce vibration by compared to alloy forks? Can you really feel the difference or is it just a placebo effect? lol Thanks for your input, as usual. |
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Arthur Clune wrote:
PhilD wrote: I have never heard of Viking. They are more famous for selling 99 quid bike shaped objects. I agree with everyone else that this looks very overpriced fro what it is. Arthur lots on ebay, when i was searching for a 2nd bike, allways had to sift though a ton of them. roger -- www.rogermerriman.com |
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blackhead wrote:
How much do carbon forks reduce vibration by compared to alloy forks? Enough. Can you really feel the difference or is it just a placebo effect? lol Yes to the difference and no to the placebo, not a laughing matter on a rough ride. -- Don Whybrow Sequi Bonum Non Time "This seems like a case where we need to shoot the messenger." (Charlie Kaufman on Cypherpunks list) |
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On 28 Mar, 20:13, (Roger Merriman) wrote:
Arthur Clune wrote: PhilD wrote: I have never heard ofViking. They are more famous for selling 99 quid bike shaped objects. I agree with everyone else that this looks very overpriced fro what it is. Arthur lots on ebay, when i was searching for a 2nd bike, allways had to sift though a ton of them. roger --www.rogermerriman.com No relation, then, to the well-respected Viking machines of the 60's? |
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