Which Aluminium Frameset

peanut1978
peanut1978 Posts: 1,031
edited December 2010 in Road beginners
Looking at Ribble Ultralite

any opinions?

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  • Berk Bonebonce
    Berk Bonebonce Posts: 1,245
    But carbon frames are almost as cheap as aluminium ones these days.
  • peanut1978
    peanut1978 Posts: 1,031
    looking at aluminium for a slightly stronger frame

    1 todler in household and another on its way in Jan
  • BazookaMoor
    BazookaMoor Posts: 77
    Bit Confused

    Is it gonna be used as a climbing Frame


    8) 8) 8)
  • andyrr
    andyrr Posts: 1,823
    Price ?
    Great frame if size suits - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=49126
  • peanut1978
    peanut1978 Posts: 1,031
    nice

    trying to keep cost down and usually ride 58cm
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Berk Bonebonce wrote:
    But carbon frames are almost as cheap as aluminium ones these days.

    But a good aluminium frame may well be better than a budget carbon frame. Just being carbon doesn't automatically make it better.
  • Berk Bonebonce
    Berk Bonebonce Posts: 1,245
    morstar wrote:
    But a good aluminium frame may well be better than a budget carbon frame. Just being carbon doesn't automatically make it better.

    Budget aluminium frames do exist. They are generally the ones with plain gauge tubes.

    But I have yet to see a 'budget' carbon frame. Large numbers of carbon fibre frames are now made at very good price in the Far East by OEM companies, and they are just the same as the 'high end' ones that get painted up in Europe and re-branded. They only differ in terms of design detail.

    I can't see how an aluminium frame would necessarily be any 'stronger' than a carbon frame. But of course aluminium is more impact resistant.
  • sheffsimon
    sheffsimon Posts: 1,282
    Kinesis make some decent reasonably priced ally frames. Just Google em, plenty of online retailers sell them.

    Got a Racelight T2 as my winter bike frame.
  • ridley2010
    ridley2010 Posts: 115
    I've got a Ribble Ultralite and i must say for the money it is a great ride. It is pretty light and durable and well able to withstand the abuse i give it. I commute on it every day and i'm a big lad at 15 stone!
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Berk Bonebonce wrote:
    morstar wrote:
    But a good aluminium frame may well be better than a budget carbon frame. Just being carbon doesn't automatically make it better.

    Budget aluminium frames do exist. They are generally the ones with plain gauge tubes.

    But I have yet to see a 'budget' carbon frame. Large numbers of carbon fibre frames are now made at very good price in the Far East by OEM companies, and they are just the same as the 'high end' ones that get painted up in Europe and re-branded. They only differ in terms of design detail.

    I can't see how an aluminium frame would necessarily be any 'stronger' than a carbon frame. But of course aluminium is more impact resistant.
    I'm not suggesting there aren't budget aluminium frames. I was merely picking up your implication that carbon is automatically better.
    Fact, some aluminium frames are better than some carbon ones. However, I accept that most aren't.

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