Ok!
Dont know whether this is good or not but based on the reviews and original price seems a good deal and even has 0% finance!
Reason for posting is a selfish one! Looking to purchase a first road bike. I have done a few charity bike rides and always used my Rockhopper with road tyres! Whilst training used to often see road bike chaps fly past at a rate of knots! I know want to do a few bike trips so need to get serious! Want to get entry level bike around £500 to see if I enjoy the longer distances so any help is appreciated.
Dont know whether this is good or not but based on the reviews and original price seems a good deal and even has 0% finance!
Reason for posting is a selfish one! Looking to purchase a first road bike. I have done a few charity bike rides and always used my Rockhopper with road tyres! Whilst training used to often see road bike chaps fly past at a rate of knots! I know want to do a few bike trips so need to get serious! Want to get entry level bike around £500 to see if I enjoy the longer distances so any help is appreciated.
My gut feeling about his would be:
Carbon by its very nature is expensive so for a 'like for like' bike Carbon vs Aluminium you would expect to pay a chunk more for the carbon version.This is a cheep bike regardless of weather its Carbon or not. as the cost has gone into the carbon, cost cuttings will have been made in the componentry. for this price point you could probably get a better spec aluminium bike.
This is of course only my opinion, but i think it is worth a consideration
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Reminds me of the first baby pram purchasing! :-)
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The Ultra 700 AF at Decathlon, that frame is nearly half a kilo heavier than the Axe Edge Compe!
Remember it's easy to put a newer lighter groupset and put wheels on as and when you want to upgrade. Nobody will find a better sub £500 bike out there
yeah but its £70 cheaper and just recommended as he only wants to spend about £500.
Personally I would take the 105 over the Veloce components but thats just my preference.
Not that it makes a difference but isn't this a 2013 frame
450g is massive! Buy the heavier bike and then take your £70 budget and see if you can make upgrades that'll shave that kind of weight. I'd say it's impossible! Forme don't make cheap frames either, so I'd rather have this decent carbon frame than a 1400g entry-level alloy frame. It's no contest here really.
Don't think your mad, wealthy yes, but not mad.
I've called Start, the Axe Edge Veloce is 8.16kg for a 53, that's 740g lighter. Worth the £70 all day. I'm going for one!
I've only got one bike and it does around 125 miles a week. I probably spend about £300 a year on it and I've had it for seven years. So it ends up great value. And it's still probably worth £2000!
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That allows you to buy a higher spec bike for less money and over approx 18mths interest free.
How did you get to that conclusion?
Weight is pretty immaterial provding assuming the bike weighs no more than 10kg unless of course you Cat race. It's key to get a bke that has geomtery that's comfortable for you. The decathalon bikes are good but have quite a low head tube.
was just about to comment the same thing. A cup of tea and some toast before a ride will be roughly 0.5kg so ultimately unless your bodyweight is below 60kg stop panicking about grams and shift some pounds.
Likewise on what you carry with you. I ride MTB and see guys worrying about saving 1/2 kg on a new frame and then see them fill a 3 litre camel back and chuck it in their pack. 3 litres of water adds 3kg!
Half a kilo for toast! That's about thirty slices!