Using MTB on Road changing to Lapierre Sensium 100 or 200?

Rookie82
Rookie82 Posts: 6
edited June 2013 in Road buying advice
Hi guys, im moving from a Trek 4 Series Disc , hardtail mtb ( http://www.trekbikes.com/powerreviews/powerreviews/product-reviews/Mountain-Hardtail/4-Series/Trek/p/2011_1018600-4300.html ) which i have been riding ont h road on urban tyres pretty much from the start. im changing to a lapierre sensium 100 or possibly the lapierre sensium 200? here's the linkshttp://www.lapierre-bikes.co.uk/road/performance/sensium-100-tp-0 or the http://www.lapierre-bikes.co.uk/road/performance/sensium-200-tp im not sure if its worth the extra £100 or so for the upgrade from the Tiagra to the 105's?
also id like to know if i should go with the triple ring or the compact double ring?
Any help and advice would be great thanks!!

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  • Calpol
    Calpol Posts: 1,039
    Tiagra to 105 is not worth £100 when there is so much to buy when starting cycling especially since tiagra is now 10 speed. I'd go double chain ring. Triples just add more weight and complexity which seem pointless given the range of gearing you can have with a compact double.
  • Rookie82
    Rookie82 Posts: 6
    Calpol wrote:
    Tiagra to 105 is not worth £100 when there is so much to buy when starting cycling especially since tiagra is now 10 speed. I'd go double chain ring. Triples just add more weight and complexity which seem pointless given the range of gearing you can have with a compact double.
    Thanks Calpol, I just was a little nervous that id run out of climbing gears maybe? I would have preferred a larger or 'standard' chain ring but that's not an option.
  • Calpol
    Calpol Posts: 1,039
    The compact seems to be supplied with 12-28 rear cassette. That will be enough to get you up most things in this country unless you are carrying a ton of extra weight or have poor fitness. If you get stuck then you could always go 12-30. I used my 13-29 on a recent sportive and was glad of the bail out gear but it was a very hilly one and some of the gradients were 20%+. I never use the 29 round here - Beds, Bucks and Herts.
  • Rookie82
    Rookie82 Posts: 6
    Calpol wrote:
    The compact seems to be supplied with 12-28 rear cassette. That will be enough to get you up most things in this country unless you are carrying a ton of extra weight or have poor fitness. If you get stuck then you could always go 12-30. I used my 13-29 on a recent sportive and was glad of the bail out gear but it was a very hilly one and some of the gradients were 20%+. I never use the 29 round here - Beds, Bucks and Herts.
    Well im 6'1 and 13.5st and have been cycling now for 2yrs, the farthest ive ridden in a day on the MTB on slicks is 115km and i normally go about 28-34kmph on the road. I feel im out of gears when im at 40kmph+ and the bike kinda wobbles a bit, i was just concerned that id be looking for a smaller ring on the hills maybe and be mad then. but you seem pretty sure i wont need it?
  • Calpol
    Calpol Posts: 1,039
    Rookie82 wrote:
    Calpol wrote:
    The compact seems to be supplied with 12-28 rear cassette. That will be enough to get you up most things in this country unless you are carrying a ton of extra weight or have poor fitness. If you get stuck then you could always go 12-30. I used my 13-29 on a recent sportive and was glad of the bail out gear but it was a very hilly one and some of the gradients were 20%+. I never use the 29 round here - Beds, Bucks and Herts.
    Well im 6'1 and 13.5st and have been cycling now for 2yrs, the farthest ive ridden in a day on the MTB on slicks is 115km and i normally go about 28-34kmph on the road. I feel im out of gears when im at 40kmph+ and the bike kinda wobbles a bit, i was just concerned that id be looking for a smaller ring on the hills maybe and be mad then. but you seem pretty sure i wont need it?
    With your previous experience and level of fitness you will be fine. Lose a stone in weight and even better :)
  • Rookie82
    Rookie82 Posts: 6
    Calpol wrote:
    Rookie82 wrote:
    Calpol wrote:
    The compact seems to be supplied with 12-28 rear cassette. That will be enough to get you up most things in this country unless you are carrying a ton of extra weight or have poor fitness. If you get stuck then you could always go 12-30. I used my 13-29 on a recent sportive and was glad of the bail out gear but it was a very hilly one and some of the gradients were 20%+. I never use the 29 round here - Beds, Bucks and Herts.
    Well im 6'1 and 13.5st and have been cycling now for 2yrs, the farthest ive ridden in a day on the MTB on slicks is 115km and i normally go about 28-34kmph on the road. I feel im out of gears when im at 40kmph+ and the bike kinda wobbles a bit, i was just concerned that id be looking for a smaller ring on the hills maybe and be mad then. but you seem pretty sure i wont need it?
    With your previous experience and level of fitness you will be fine. Lose a stone in weight and even better :)

    Ha Ha thanks for the advice, hopefully will lose some weight too, that's the plan!
  • mrcw34
    mrcw34 Posts: 10
    Yes Tiagra and a compact, though there will be the very odd occasion when you wish you had a triple :) just means you have to man up and get on with it. a 28 12 will get you up almost anything in the uk . I very nearly bought a lapierre earlier in the year and had a good look at the range but a colnago came up at a stupid price. good choice though really like the lapierre's and you don't see them everywhere
  • Rookie82
    Rookie82 Posts: 6
    mrcw34 wrote:
    Yes Tiagra and a compact, though there will be the very odd occasion when you wish you had a triple :) just means you have to man up and get on with it. a 28 12 will get you up almost anything in the uk . I very nearly bought a lapierre earlier in the year and had a good look at the range but a colnago came up at a stupid price. good choice though really like the lapierre's and you don't see them everywhere

    Ive had some one say the 105's shift better. I presume the Tiagra shifts well or lapierre wouldnt put them on the bike in the first place though right? yes they are a nice bike and not that common, just would like something different and actually i love the red colour of the 100, pity the 200 doesnt come in red too. my mtb is black and kinda dont want another black bike LOL
  • Nick_M
    Nick_M Posts: 58
    I wouldn't worry about the 200 being black and white, it looks absolutely great. I have a Sensium 300 (SRAM Apex rather than Shimano), but I still half wish they did it in black and white as well as the blue and white that is the only colour available at the moment for the 300.

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