First Carbon

craiggreg89

Hi all, i have been biking for the last year and put a fair few miles in over winter on my current bike.

I seem to be spending more and more time out on the bike, with a few charity rides coming up in the summer.

I have been looking at getting a fairly decent summer bike and keeping my current Giant SCR 2 that has had a good few upgrades as a winter bike.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/cube ... prod111922

I am around that price tag and thought this would be a good first carbon?

What do others think and do you have any other bikes in this budget you could link me to?

Cheers

markhewitt1978

Take a look at the Planet X carbon; a bit more but you get Ultegra 10 speed instead of Tiagra.

dwanes

The link shows as a Triple chainset, do want/need a Triple chainset?

craiggreg89

my current bike has a triple and i don't mind it so thought about just staying with a triple?

Does it make any difference or just personal preference?

keef66

craiggreg89 wrote:

my current bike has a triple and i don't mind it so thought about just staying with a triple?

Does it make any difference or just personal preference?

Personal preference. I have a triple on my wet / winter bike and a standard double on my summer bike. In practice I stay in the 39 ring most of the time on both.

CYCLESPORT1

Or:
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/

cougie

keef66 wrote:

craiggreg89 wrote:

my current bike has a triple and i don't mind it so thought about just staying with a triple?

Does it make any difference or just personal preference?

Personal preference. I have a triple on my wet / winter bike and a standard double on my summer bike. In practice I stay in the 39 ring most of the time on both.

You stay in the 39 ring most of the time ? Are you not spinning out lots ?

keef66

cougie wrote:

keef66 wrote:

craiggreg89 wrote:

my current bike has a triple and i don't mind it so thought about just staying with a triple?

Does it make any difference or just personal preference?

Personal preference. I have a triple on my wet / winter bike and a standard double on my summer bike. In practice I stay in the 39 ring most of the time on both.

You stay in the 39 ring most of the time ? Are you not spinning out lots ?

No, I'm generally what is known in the trade as pootling. I'm 56 with dodgy knees and a long history of being a rubbish cyclist Long downhills are quite scarce round here. There's a couple of stretches where it's worth popping it into the big ring, and a few times with the recent gale force tailwinds I've been able to pretend I'm Wiggo winning the Olympic time trial. But I'd say yes, 90% of my time I'm just happy pottering around on the 39 chainring and using the whole 12-25 cassette. It is also possible that I'm just too lazy to bother with too many front changes.

markhewitt1978

I guess I'm the same except spending the majority of time in the 50T big ring. Only going into the little ring for proper climbs. Of course this means being cross chained a good amount of time!