How will I know....

Lycraboy_Andy

when it's time to get a new bike?

I bought my Giant Defy 4 in November and it is currently serving me very well! I want to start racing criteriums next year and have a sneaking feeling that come March, a combination of my annual bonus, lighter evenings, the race season looming and pages and pages of pornographic reviews in Cycling Plus for 'race machines' will make me do something impulsive

What I wanna know....will there be any point? Or will the trusty Defy hold it's own with the 4th cats??

Gizmodo

There is a well known equation to answer this, the correct number of bikes is n+1 (which can also be written as s-1)

See Rule #12 - http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#12

dnwhite88

As soon as you get the green light from the mrs

alihisgreat

If you want to race crits then a standard double is a good idea..

.. and why bother changing just the chainset when you can buy a whole new bike?!


(ps. My Defy 1 is serving me fine in 4th cat crits at the moment though.. although having said that it does have a stiffer BB than the Defy 4, and I do have a relatively aggressive position due to my body shape. )

imposter2.0

Lycraboy_Andy wrote:

Or will the trusty Defy hold it's own with the 4th cats??

If you can hold your own in races, then so can the bike.

Lycraboy_Andy

dnwhite88 wrote:

As soon as you get the green light from the mrs

So true!! She'll be fine! As long as I put the miles in over the winter...and buy her some new duvet covers and maybe some ear-rings!

Thanks for the advice Al, perhaps I can come and be your domestique? I might learn something!

cattytown

Having a £100 voucher for Edinburgh Cycle I was wondering what to spend it on. I briefly mentioned a bike upgrade as in "save the vouchers for a bike upgrade, but not yet". Normally she agrees that I don't need to spend money on something, but she said nothing. That rather sounds like assent....