felt f series

orangepip

anyone ridden one / own one

I'm interested to know peoples opinion - how "relaxed" the ride is - that kind of thing

wombler

I've got an F75 (alu). Don't have a huge amount to compare it with, but it was by far the most responsive test ride I had, while the carbon fork, seatstays and seatpost soak up the worst of the bumps. It's race rather than sportive geometry - the Z series is more relaxed.

N0bodyOfTheGoat

2006 f5C here... Lovely, light and nimble racer. To me, it has quite a "racey" frame setup (even with the stem flipped, I still have ~5cm level drop from saddle to top of bars). Sadly, only take her out once since March when she was given a service/ parts upgrade, as the lean (even on a 54cm frame, when I'm 5'10") was aggrivating my lumbar muscle back injury.

I did try to sell her on here, but nobody was wanting to pay in excess of £500 for her...

The standard 105 brakes seemed a little weak to me, even bought some Bontrager Speed Limits to replace them, but the Race Blade crud dumping all over the brakes stopped a permanent fitting (although Mr Crud's new guards could solve that issue). The original saddle was comfy until the rail supports broke, so I replaced it with a very similar shaped Toupe Gel. With a nice wheel upgrade to replace the Alex270s with either some built Open Pros/ CXP33s, or some off the shelf Fulcrum3s, she would make an awsome speed machine.

She is a lovely ride as is. As it looks like I will never get anything close to a decent price for her, I might try a steeper stem, some Mr Crud mudguards and fit the Speed Limits...