Apex Winter Trainer with full guards - advice needed

Octopus1

Hi, I'm looking for a winter trainer/commuter with an Apex groupset and the ability to fit full guards. Disc's would be nice but not essential. So far I've narrowed it down to:

Eastway r3.0 - none of the pictures show eyelets on the front fork so any confirmation that full guards can be fitted would be appreciated ?

Raleigh RX Comp Cross - looks lovely but again cannot set how guards are fitted to the front fork. I know its a cx bike but would be looking at 25's/28's plus guards. The fact it has disc's is useful.

Boardman CX Team - fine but the BB30 issues put me off and the fork has no eyelets

Dolan - preffisio - possible

Ribble Winter trainer - cannot get with an Apex groupset.

Any help or advice about the above / other would be really appreciated. Budget up to £1k.

Thanks

Ian

jordan_217

Just over budget:

http://www.spacycles.co.uk/products.php ... b0s21p2827

I'm sure I've also seen Tifosi CK7's spec'd with SRAM (?)

londoncommuter

This might fit the bill (although you'd have to deal with Evans):

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/pin ... e-ec071300

alan_sherman

Does it have to be Apex? Or do you really want SRAm double tap?

Planet X London road has Force and discs for £999
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXLDNRIV ... -road-bike

luv2ride

alan sherman wrote:

Does it have to be Apex? Or do you really want SRAm double tap?

Planet X London road has Force and discs for £999
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXLDNRIV ... -road-bike

Or, rather Rival 22. Either way it's a good buy on the face of it. BTW, I have SRAM Apex on my (self-built) Tifosi CK7 and love it. For the money, though, that PX London Road does look good as a winter trainer.

Octopus1

Dear All,

Thanks, doesn't have to be Apex any other SRAM double tap would be fine. My preference is down to have 2 other SRAM bikes, Supersix and a Secteur.

The Supersix is a summer only and the secteur cannot take full guards, although cruds are ok for the odd rainy day commute. I'm looking to replace my existing commuter and wanted consistency of set up and the ability to swapping things around if needed.

As a commuter full guards are essential for the winter and the Pinnacle looks like a good choice as my budget is fixed and coming in under budget would be preferrable. I could also use it for club runs.

I couldn't live with colour of the London Road.

If the Raleigh could take guards, I'd pick it as a commuter/cx/trainer but Raleigh seem rubbish at coming back to customer enquiries, pretty much the same with Eastway, which doesn't encourage too much confidence in either brand in the event of a problem.

bendertherobot

http://road.cc/content/news/111292-just ... cross-bike

There you go. That'll take guards. I'd, personally, swap the brakes for TRP spyres.

Cheap at Wiggle.

Octopus1

bendertherobot wrote:

http://road.cc/content/news/111292-just-eastway-cx20-cyclo-cross-bike

There you go. That'll take guards. I'd, personally, swap the brakes for TRP spyres.

Cheap at Wiggle.

I'd discounted that as no mudguard mounts shown on the Wiggle picture. Looks more promising on the article. Thanks for spotting

bendertherobot

Yeah, if you google it and do a search for images greater than 2 mp it definitely has rear ones on both sides. Then the other pics on the next suggest it has eyes on the front fork. So it should be a go-er. It definitely has a hole through the front fork so, worst case, you could stick p clips on the fork and attach to them.

bendertherobot

Plus, you can go CX'ing. CX'ing is cool.

defycomp2

http://www.dolan-bikes.com/dolan-cyclo-cross/cyclo-cross-bikes/cyclo-cross-aluminium/dolan-multi-x-aluminium-cyclo-cross-bike.html
£870 for SRAM Rival with Bluemels mudguards fitted. My partner has one of these and she loves it. If you can find one on eBay a Charge Filter Apex will take 35mm tyres with SKS Chromo's.