Focus road bikes

NGale

I am looking to get a better bike within the next few months and seen a few decent reviews of the Focus bikes that are going around. Just wondered what some of you thought of them and if they are a good road bike to start out on.

I have also got me eye on a Trek bike which will take a couple more months to save for but I might think about that one at a later date if the Focus jobs are good enough.

always_tyred

Trek = very good value for money (in house parts, right up to high end stuff, and vast sales because of Lance)

Focus = very, very good value (heaven knows how they make them so cheap - they may be knitted by 12 year olds in harsh factory conditions - but that doesn't matter)

Both now ridden by pro-teams, so neither give you any excuse for being slow.

NGale

ahhh the bikes might not give me an excuse for being slow, but my last of fitness and slight flabbyness does at the moment.

biondino

I can give you 1,300 miles worth of opinion on my Cayo Expert if you'd be interested! on this thread or by PM if you prefer.

I LOVE my Focus. The sheer joy of pushing down on the pedals and feeling 99% of the power turned straight into moving forward. My biggest complaint? That the internally routed brake cable bangs against the top tube while going over bumps. I think I can live with that

Oh, and I think they should have given me a Dura-Ace front mech to go with the shifters and rear. I guess Ultegra will do in a pinch

mrchrispy

had a cayo for over a year and its ace, twas my 1st road bike and i've hardly got of the thing...much to you displeasure of my stumpy that is gathering dust. its difficult to beat them on value.

ram038

biondino wrote:

I can give you 1,300 miles worth of opinion on my Cayo Expert if you'd be interested! on this thread or by PM if you prefer.

I LOVE my Focus. The sheer joy of pushing down on the pedals and feeling 99% of the power turned straight into moving forward. My biggest complaint? That the internally routed brake cable bangs against the top tube while going over bumps. I think I can live with that

Oh, and I think they should have given me a Dura-Ace front mech to go with the shifters and rear. I guess Ultegra will do in a pinch

how did you size the bike, was it using the measurements pon the web-site or by copying a bike you already had. I currently have a 51cm Lemond Reno and but was sized as 53cm on a cannodale synapse just last week. the Reno was bought off the internet and size was a guess on my part.

NGale

I now have me eyes on three bikes in total, all round bikes, the Focus Cayo one (although a little out of my price range, a Trek 1.2t WSD and a Felt F95 team issue bike.

I have found one thing though, the womens bikes are better for me each wise. being long in the leg but very short in the body there is nothing worse than over reaching on a road bike, you just don't feel safe, so at the moment the Trek is sneeking just ahead followed by the Felt F95, and price wise they compare

biondino

ram038 wrote:

biondino wrote:

I can give you 1,300 miles worth of opinion on my Cayo Expert if you'd be interested! on this thread or by PM if you prefer.

I LOVE my Focus. The sheer joy of pushing down on the pedals and feeling 99% of the power turned straight into moving forward. My biggest complaint? That the internally routed brake cable bangs against the top tube while going over bumps. I think I can live with that

Oh, and I think they should have given me a Dura-Ace front mech to go with the shifters and rear. I guess Ultegra will do in a pinch

how did you size the bike, was it using the measurements pon the web-site or by copying a bike you already had. I currently have a 51cm Lemond Reno and but was sized as 53cm on a cannodale synapse just last week. the Reno was bought off the internet and size was a guess on my part.

I copied my existing bike. The measurements on my Trek are very similar to my Focus - both 58cm models, though the Focus has a slightly sloping downtube while the Trek is horizontal.

The irony is that only after I'd got the Focus did I realise that actually the Trek was a teeny bit big for me and now I have 2 slightly too big bikes :oops: However, with a reversed stem and handlebars turned upwards a bit, and the saddle quite far forward, it's absolutely fine.

As a guide I am 6' and 34" inside leg.

Eat My Dust

I've done over 7000 miles on my Cayo and haven't got a single complaint about it. The best bike I've ever owned.

NGale

Eat My Dust wrote:

I've done over 7000 miles on my Cayo and haven't got a single complaint about it. The best bike I've ever owned.

think it will still be an option, but even if I can;t afford it this time around I may well look at it as a future set of wheels.