Lidl Road Racing Bike

hannahntilly

See
http://tinyurl.com/kvol4e

Does anyone think this is good value for £749??

keef66

Depends to some extent on the frame / fork / wheels, but at first sight, it does look pretty good for the money. The groupset alone would cost you £550.

andy_wrx

In the UK at £749
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages ... g_Bike.ar1
- but you may or may not see it as it looks like it's only in certain UK regions, so it may depend what your store is set to...

In Northern Ireland at £799/Republic €899
http://www.lidl.ie/IE/home_ni.nsf/pages ... acing_Bike

Full Ultegra triple groupo, including chainset, brakes, etc - no dliution with Tektro or FSA or 105 bits
RS10 wheels
PDR-540 pedals
Selle Italia saddle
Alu frame, carbon fork

Branded as 'Stratos', whatever that means it is underneath...
(that downtube is quite distinctive - looks like this http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=26893, where Brand-X is CRC's own brand : presumably it's a Taiwanese frame from Merida or someone)

Buy in store, home delivery : so essentially you're buying a bike unseen just like you would on the internet and have to assemble it yourself at home and adjust the gears, etc, plus you won't get a bike-fit and won't have the back-up as if you bought it in your LBS.

I'd be tempted if I were in the market for an alu bike and had that sort of budget to spend, but I wonder who exactly will buy one ?
- the sort of person who does their weekly grocery shop in Lidl isn't going to want to spend £750
- most bike enthusiasts won't want a Lidl-brand bike
- many newbies will be put-off by the home-assembly bit

gabriel959

Yeah, check the wheels firstand finishing kit (bars, stem, saddle and seat post). If you don't like the frame that much you could always get a Planet X one for 399 and sell that one.

STEFANOS4784

That definately looks like a bargain IMO

Anonymous

It looks on the face of it a bargain!

gabriel959

You could buy an Orbea Aqua Mortirolo with Full Ultegra + RS20 wheels and for £999. You would say that is a £150 more but you get better wheels, most probably better finishing kit (the one in the orbea is their basic carbon kit) and a lifetime frame warranty.

Slow Downcp

gabriel959 wrote:

You could buy an Orbea Aqua Mortirolo with Full Ultegra + RS20 wheels and for £999. You would say that is a £150 more

You could say that, but you'd be wrong. It's £250 :?

JC.152

it says if your 5foot7 you get the 57cm frame. that sounds huge to me im bout 5foot8 and ride 52frame

4kicks

Not to diss what seems a great barain, but Id dbe slightly concerned over fit. Seems to be only three sizes for what, looking at a by no means clear photo, may be a conventional ie horizontal top tube geometry...hmmm

gabriel959

Slow Downcp wrote:

gabriel959 wrote:

You could buy an Orbea Aqua Mortirolo with Full Ultegra + RS20 wheels and for £999. You would say that is a £150 more

You could say that, but you'd be wrong. It's £250 :?

:oops: LOL at my math skillz 8)

ugo.santalucia

Quality groupset, which is the most important criterium to choose a bike. Overall quite a heavy bike, which suggests old-technology frame and cheap wheels. Not necessarily a bad thing, one Kg more or less won't make much difference anyway.

If they offer a decent warranty and provided you like it (which is really the most important criterium)... go for it.

But don't expect much simpathy from your LBS when you need repairs... they'll probably be very snobbish about it...

passout

Worth a go I'd say as you can always rescue the components. There would obviously be some risk buying un-seen.

freehub

abit over 8.85kg seems light to me? My CAAD9 is probably heavier than that!

My Genesis with Aksium wheels, 105 groupset, ultegra front mech weight in at just over 10kg.

daviesee

freehub wrote:

abit over 8.85kg seems light to me? My CAAD9 is probably heavier than that!

My Genesis with Aksium wheels, 105 groupset, ultegra front mech weight in at just over 10kg.

The given weight is probably frame only.
And possibly unpainted at that, a common trick.

ugo.santalucia

freehub wrote:

abit over 8.85kg seems light to me? My CAAD9 is probably heavier than that!

My Genesis with Aksium wheels, 105 groupset, ultegra front mech weight in at just over 10kg.

My Specialized Alu/Carbon with Aksiums and 105 weighs 8.5Kg with pedals... and it's not exaclty a lightweight... a 8.8 Kg without pedals maens 9.1 with pedals, which, in 2009 is a bit on the heavy side, but as I said, if you've got good legs 1-2 Kg make no difference

markos1963

daviesee wrote:

freehub wrote:

abit over 8.85kg seems light to me? My CAAD9 is probably heavier than that!

My Genesis with Aksium wheels, 105 groupset, ultegra front mech weight in at just over 10kg.

The given weight is probably frame only.
And possibly unpainted at that, a common trick.

8kg for a frame!! I think not. The weight seems fine to me given the reasonable components. It certainly looks like a Merida frame shape and thats no bad thing if they did make it.

chriskempton

I don't think it's that great. An Ultegra gruppo can be had for (I think) about 450, the wheels are just over 100. Which leaves 200 quid for a horizontal geometry ali frame of no repute and some dubious finishing kit.

Non merci

felgen

I have to say I am not sure I would buy it, but I guess the proof of the pudding etc will be in how many they shift. The rest of their cycling stuff seems to fly off the shelves (and onto eBay shortly afterwards :? ). As far as sizing goes, it looks like a horizontal top tube, but it could be the perspective playing tricks with my mind.

JC.152

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The given weight is probably frame only.
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scratch all the lidl paint off the n you can stop any bike snobbery and have low weight

billy whippet

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Quality groupset, which is the most important criterium to choose a bike.

err, i don't think so