Langster review

steve watkin
steve watkin Posts: 40
edited September 2008 in Workshop
Any one got a copy of C+176 with the review of the Langster ? Is it scannable and sendable ?

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  • RC21
    RC21 Posts: 166
    Seconded :)
  • brownbosh
    brownbosh Posts: 602
    no but mine is greeeeeeeat
  • chaley
    chaley Posts: 100
    I'd like to have a read too, please.
    Chaley
    2009 langster

    Blasphemy is the only victimless crime
  • Keanocp
    Keanocp Posts: 60
    Review is here http://www.bikeradar.com/beginners/gear ... ster-17497

    and the new model looks better than ever
    http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkMode ... er&eid=109
    but appears to be £50 more!
  • Gav2000
    Gav2000 Posts: 408
    Keanocp wrote:
    Review is here http://www.bikeradar.com/beginners/gear ... ster-17497

    and the new model looks better than ever
    http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkMode ... er&eid=109
    but appears to be £50 more!

    The silver one looks good but the 'Monaco' version looks like Westwood has pimped it. :shock: :shock: :shock:

    I have a rust/brown one (the 2007 version) and it's a great bike. I've added bullhorn / TT bars and TT brakes and use it for my quick blasts when time is short. It seems to make me use about 20% more calories than my geared bikes.
    Gav2000

    Like a streak of lightnin' flashin' cross the sky,
    Like the swiftest arrow whizzin' from a bow,
    Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly.
    You'll hear about him ever'where you go.
  • steve watkin
    steve watkin Posts: 40
    Got my 2008 green 'un for 320 quid new so although the 2009 looks good i bet it's not worth 130 more.

    BTW :-

    Like a streak of lightnin' flashin' cross the sky,
    Like the swiftest arrow whizzin' from a bow,
    Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly.
    You'll hear about him ever'where you go.


    Hey, wasn't that Champion the Wonder Horse ?
    (showing my age now !!)
  • chaley
    chaley Posts: 100
    Keanocp wrote:
    Review is here http://www.bikeradar.com/beginners/gear ... ster-17497

    and the new model looks better than ever
    http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkMode ... er&eid=109
    but appears to be £50 more!
    Cheers Dude :)
    Chaley
    2009 langster

    Blasphemy is the only victimless crime
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Saw a Monaco in Bristol a few weeks back and had to spend 1/2 hour looking for it online. Makes me want to go roadie SS and ditch MTB SS. :oops:
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • Gav2000
    Gav2000 Posts: 408
    steve watkin wrote:
    Got my 2008 green 'un for 320 quid new so although the 2009 looks good i bet it's not worth 130 more.

    BTW :-

    Like a streak of lightnin' flashin' cross the sky,
    Like the swiftest arrow whizzin' from a bow,
    Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly.
    You'll hear about him ever'where you go.


    Hey, wasn't that Champion the Wonder Horse ?
    (showing my age now !!)

    That's right, I guess that makes you around 40 if you were watching it at the same time as me along with Casey Jones and The Whirlybirds.
    Gav2000

    Like a streak of lightnin' flashin' cross the sky,
    Like the swiftest arrow whizzin' from a bow,
    Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly.
    You'll hear about him ever'where you go.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Keanocp wrote:
    Review is here http://www.bikeradar.com/beginners/gear ... ster-17497

    and the new model looks better than ever
    http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkMode ... er&eid=109
    but appears to be £50 more!

    Bleurgh. "Looks better than ever" ... it looked fugly to start with. The new one just looks like a rubbish attempt at a Pista.
  • Ramanujan
    Ramanujan Posts: 352
    where can you buy the new silver one?
    I want one!!
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    The Monaco is a lovely looker IMO - one to go with my "russet" one (a Pearson's 99 quid f'set offer that I couldn't refuse) would be nice!
    FWIW, I reckon that even for full price they are pretty nice bikes (altho' I can't really comment on stock bits as mine built from F&F only). Rides very well - even off-tarmac. Only downside is that no room for bigger tyres, never mind 'grds. It fits me so well that I also bought a Tricross Single (fixed!) to meet those requirements! The Tricross is I think (for my purposes) the 2nd best fixed I've owned (exact number escapes me but over a dozen or so).
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • steve watkin
    steve watkin Posts: 40
    Gav2000 wrote:
    That's right, I guess that makes you around 40 if you were watching it at the same time as me along with Casey Jones and The Whirlybirds.

    Oh how I wish that were true !! Add 20 and you are there.
  • salsarider79
    salsarider79 Posts: 828
    redvee: Why not do both? Thats what I've done......
    jedster wrote:
    Just off to contemplate my own mortality and inevitable descent into decrepedness.
    FCN 3 or 4 on road depending on clothing
    FCN 8 off road because I'm too old to go racing around.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    salsarider79 wrote:
    redvee: Why not do both? Thats what I've done......

    Money or lack of. Can't see the dole office looking too favourably at a claim for a crisis loan cause I want to get a SS road bike :roll:
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.

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