Ribble 7005 frames
pontarlier_pete
Posts: 195
All,
As I've ended up splashing out a bit more on my new race bike than initially anticipated :oops: , and it won't be ready for the end of this season, I'm thinking of getting a cheap alloy frame in case I want to do a handful of races in the second part of this season. I'd then use it as a summer commuting/crit bike so as not to risk the main bike. My current training bike is an uncared-for 2002 alloy claud butler, so isn't really up to doing anything other than winter hacking, but I want to spend as little as possible as this would essentially be a stop-gap/reserve. And I mean little, so unless someone has a CAAD9 on ebay for £100, one of those is out the question!
Would a Ribble 7005 SL be a decent frame for this? Or how about the Ribble deddiiiiaccciaiiariiccia EM2? Any opinions on these frames?
Many thanks
PP
As I've ended up splashing out a bit more on my new race bike than initially anticipated :oops: , and it won't be ready for the end of this season, I'm thinking of getting a cheap alloy frame in case I want to do a handful of races in the second part of this season. I'd then use it as a summer commuting/crit bike so as not to risk the main bike. My current training bike is an uncared-for 2002 alloy claud butler, so isn't really up to doing anything other than winter hacking, but I want to spend as little as possible as this would essentially be a stop-gap/reserve. And I mean little, so unless someone has a CAAD9 on ebay for £100, one of those is out the question!
Would a Ribble 7005 SL be a decent frame for this? Or how about the Ribble deddiiiiaccciaiiariiccia EM2? Any opinions on these frames?
Many thanks
PP
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If you want it as cheap as possible why not get one of the clearance frames they are offering ?0
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MICHAELCYCLES wrote:If you want it as cheap as possible why not get one of the clearance frames they are offering ?
Thanks, that's exactly what I'm looking at. I'm just wondering whether anyone has any experience to make sure they'd be suitable, or whether it would be a false economy and I'd be better off with a Planet X alu.0 -
From what I've seen you'd be fine with the ribble. Planet X looks good though.'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.0
