Best, most comfortable sportive bike?

redddraggon

ugo.santalucia wrote:

I don't get the point of asking for advice if you already have made up your mind about what you want

That's what Willhub does everytime

geordieindevon

Chip \'oyler wrote:

ashnbecs wrote:

Thanks for all the info people.
Chelmer was on the list as its local, does the Cannondale, will let me test ride and service has been recommended by various local riders.
I recognise the name of the Hainault shop so will visit there thank you for reminding me.
I'm not going to go down the steel route - too old school despite recent technical advances.
Ti is tempting - May be able to up the budget if necessary. If I go Ti how much should I budget for?

How does an oversize, fillet brazed lugless steel frame look any different to a Ti frame? Especially one that's made with 953 Stainless Steel :?:

Looks like this has turned into a discussion about frame materials....I prefer steel and in the past have been advised by people who know what they are talking about to go for steel over other materials.

This website puts forward some good points about choice of frame materials....steel seems to come out the winner.

http://www.rivbike.com/article/bicycle_ ... _materials

I particularly like the comment at the end about the Lightspeed

ugo.santalucia

geordieindevon wrote:

Chip \'oyler wrote:

ashnbecs wrote:

Thanks for all the info people.
Chelmer was on the list as its local, does the Cannondale, will let me test ride and service has been recommended by various local riders.
I recognise the name of the Hainault shop so will visit there thank you for reminding me.
I'm not going to go down the steel route - too old school despite recent technical advances.
Ti is tempting - May be able to up the budget if necessary. If I go Ti how much should I budget for?

How does an oversize, fillet brazed lugless steel frame look any different to a Ti frame? Especially one that's made with 953 Stainless Steel :?:

Looks like this has turned into a discussion about frame materials....I prefer steel and in the past have been advised by people who know what they are talking about to go for steel over other materials.

This website puts forward some good points about choice of frame materials....steel seems to come out the winner.

http://www.rivbike.com/article/bicycle_ ... _materials

I particularly like the comment at the end about the Lightspeed

Very good article, well spotted!

geordieindevon

Thanks ugo

It was the article a good friend of mine directed me to when I was looking for my first bike and as I started down the line of "carbon is best" etc etc...

The original post asked for the best, most comfortable sportive bike....in my mind it has to be steel over anything else and if I had £2-3K to spend (I wish :? ) I would be straight over to Enigma Bikes as they do cracking steel bikes....something like this:

http://www.enigmabikes.com/extensor.html

I have started saving up