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Friday's bu88ery bo77ocks how much thread - eeeek!!!
02GF74 - 16/1/09 at 08:37 AM

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BUT you could buy a proper one with 6 cylinders for 1/2 that - eeek!!!



although I suspect the TDF official would not be too pleased ...

l0rd - 16/1/09 at 08:44 AM

And you don't get the pedals?

Fake!!!

Mr Whippy - 16/1/09 at 08:47 AM

it's got golf ball dimples on the wheels!

seen more expensive ones before though

nick205 - 16/1/09 at 08:50 AM

£4.5-5k in our money - that looks like a pretty reasonable price to me. That is a spanking cycle indeed.

zilspeed - 16/1/09 at 09:15 AM

He's clearly a label junkie.

We all like nice stuff, but that's just stupid.

And we've all seen good drivers in crap supposedly crap cars beating poor drivers in the latest thing.

This has equal potential for expensive failure.

Not for me, but you probably knew that anyway.

coozer - 16/1/09 at 09:25 AM

5k FOR A PUSH BIKE? MUST BE MAAAAAAAD

02GF74 - 16/1/09 at 09:57 AM

mad ? it's all relative. building your own car - mad or not? spending thousands on go faster engine goodies, mad or not?

I don't think it is mad - but a hell of a lot of dosh that I could never justify, I sold my TT bike about 5 years ago.

but if you were at the top of your sport, and you thought that that bike would gain you a couple of seconds a mile, then it is money well spent, if you had it.

Mr Whippy - 16/1/09 at 10:08 AM

All though it’s nice to see fancy new technology I feel this kind of thing is a blight on almost all sports, where those with money simply buy their performance though their day job rather than actually earn it through hard work in the sport. In my eye’s its little better than cheating through the use of drugs.

nick205 - 16/1/09 at 10:45 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
All though it’s nice to see fancy new technology I feel this kind of thing is a blight on almost all sports, where those with money simply buy their performance though their day job rather than actually earn it through hard work in the sport. In my eye’s its little better than cheating through the use of drugs.



That's a little jaded!

Someone's got to keep buying the latest/greatest things to fund the people developing them. Many of the features, materials and techniques will trickle down to everyday bikes in the future. Push bike development IMHO is something that will benefit us all in the long run.

From personal experience the quality of the bike frame and components (weight, balance, response etc.) makes an enormous difference to the enjoyment of riding. What get's me wound up is the built to a price £99 bikes from Halfords that seem designed (weight, balance, gemoetry etc.) to put new cyclists off the activity by being appalling to ride.

However you can now spend around £300 on a bike and get something really quite reasonable that makes riding a pleasure not a chore.

(this isn't a rant BTW - just my take on the relative merits of the bike in question and cycling in general )

MK9R - 16/1/09 at 11:03 AM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
All though it’s nice to see fancy new technology I feel this kind of thing is a blight on almost all sports, where those with money simply buy their performance though their day job rather than actually earn it through hard work in the sport. In my eye’s its little better than cheating through the use of drugs.



That's a little jaded!

Someone's got to keep buying the latest/greatest things to fund the people developing them. Many of the features, materials and techniques will trickle down to everyday bikes in the future. Push bike development IMHO is something that will benefit us all in the long run.

From personal experience the quality of the bike frame and components (weight, balance, response etc.) makes an enormous difference to the enjoyment of riding. What get's me wound up is the built to a price £99 bikes from Halfords that seem designed (weight, balance, gemoetry etc.) to put new cyclists off the activity by being appalling to ride.

However you can now spend around £300 on a bike and get something really quite reasonable that makes riding a pleasure not a chore.

(this isn't a rant BTW - just my take on the relative merits of the bike in question and cycling in general )


I'm looking at getting a decent road bike to try and build up the fitness, any reccomendations? I used to be in MTB big time and still have a very nice hard tail (Dave Hinde M3), but fancy some road riding.

nick205 - 16/1/09 at 11:23 AM

Sorry Austen - like you MTBs are my thing so no real knowledge of road bikes. Although I have been thinking the same myself recently about getting in some road miles. Must be a seasonal and/or age thing I reckon

Mr Whippy - 16/1/09 at 11:30 AM

quote:


I'm looking at getting a decent road bike to try and build up the fitness, any reccomendations? I used to be in MTB big time and still have a very nice hard tail (Dave Hinde M3), but fancy some road riding.


I have both a good suspension mountain bike and a nice light road race bike, both bought from Halfords for around £350 each. If you have reasonable quality roads then the race bike as about twice as fast as the MTB and a lot less effort to go up hills. It however is incapable of climbing curbs and drain covers and potholes are bad news. It will also lock the wheels up very easily in the wet so you have to be careful at high speed not to run into the back of cars (came very close to doing this myself). Also due to no suspension and the high pressure tyres 100psi!, rough roads are painful both on your hands and bum. Saying that it’s a real blast to use and I fitted a huge main cog so it will go about 30mph which probably doesn’t sound much but take it from me on a push bike that’s quite intimidating and very windy (usually the point where ideas of a fully enclosed reclining bike pop into my head ). Little amuses me more than flying past someone on a MTB or kids on fixed speed BMX’s, where you hear them saying WTF was that!?!?

02GF74 - 16/1/09 at 11:46 AM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Sorry Austen - like you MTBs are my thing so no real knowledge of road bikes. Although I have been thinking the same myself recently about getting in some road miles. Must be a seasonal and/or age thing I reckon


I used to do loads of road miles but due to the bad attitude of drivers, migragted off road. Off-road is more interesting as not only do you push the pedals, you need to chose the correct line thorugh obstacles; my road riding was training so nose down to the tarmac.

I hear good things about the Chris Boardman range in Halfords - someone else makes them but they are rebadeged and I think Halfords now buy direct from the manufacturers hence no longer CB if you can follow any of that.

Otherwise, ebay - le'ts say I have bought a few bikes too many off there!!

The "quality" of bikes you can tell by the componentry fitted. Decide on that then start looking.

Ensure you get correct frame - most newbies will get one that is too large - road bike with horizontal top tube would be 1/3 your height or trouse leg less 10 inches.

nstrug - 16/1/09 at 01:18 PM

Decathlon own-brand bikes are excellent and well priced. They have a full range from entry level fitness/commuting bikes right up to £1700 full Ti frame bikes. Actually, _all_ Decathlon own brand stuff is great.

I would also look at BeOne, simply because they are being sold by chainreaction (http://www.chainreactioncycles.com) who I've had great service from - they build my Kinesis Maxlight-based hardtail to my own specification and did a great job at a very competitive price.

Nick