ti do it all bike?

karnali
karnali Posts: 703
edited May 2009 in Road buying advice
Currnelty have a focus cay and a singlecross, i use the single cross for commuting with paniers and the focus for riding and a few triathlons. I'm lookng at reducing bike numbers and fancy a ti bike that will be light enough for road riding and triathlons but will take a rack and mudguards for year round commuting, i have seen the sabbath sunday (i htink) that lokos nice and the van nich yukon both on good offres at fatbirds with free forks and headset.



anything else out there i should be looking at.

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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Custom thru XACD ?
  • cacbyname
    cacbyname Posts: 285
    I own a Focus Cayo, a Specialized singlecross and a Van Nicholas Yukon. The van nich is a great bike but it is a lot heavier than the Focus - frame is 1.7kg IIRC. Ok it is 105 rather than the Cayo's ultegra and it has mudguards on as well but there are still a couple of kilos in it. I guess if you have a set of commuting wheels and a racing set you could get the most out of it.
  • owenlars
    owenlars Posts: 719
    You could add to the two you already mention the Enigma Etape and the Condor Gran Fondo.
  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    Enigma Etape - I have one, superb bike.
    Carlsberg don't make cycle clothing, but if they did it would probably still not be as good as Assos
  • stagger
    stagger Posts: 116
    karnali wrote:
    Currnelty have a focus cay and a singlecross, i use the single cross for commuting with paniers and the focus for riding and a few triathlons. I'm lookng at reducing bike numbers and fancy a ti bike that will be light enough for road riding and triathlons but will take a rack and mudguards for year round commuting, i have seen the sabbath sunday (i htink) that lokos nice and the van nich yukon both on good offres at fatbirds with free forks and headset.



    anything else out there i should be looking at.

    I have a planet x ti sportive- very nice, pretty light and handles well... doesnt have rack mount but can easy get seatpost mounted one obviously. It has guard mounts .
  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    VN Amazon (or Airborne Carpe Diem). There's a CD on ebay at the moment.
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  • Barrie_G
    Barrie_G Posts: 479
    Sabbath September
  • pianoman
    pianoman Posts: 706
    Buy a Van Nicholas Chinook :D
    Spec it with Campag groupset :D
    and get a couple of sets of Campag wheels, one for winter with Stelvio tyres, and a summer pair with Ultremo's.

    You can ride it whenever you want, and wherever you want. It worked for me :D

    Regarding the rack, I was thinking of something along these lines myself - attach something to the seatpost, though I don't think the Campag Record seatpost would take the strain, maybe better to go for something more basic e.g. Deda Metal Stick. I could always swap the seatpost out if ever I really wanted to do a weekend trip.

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