Bling wheels or another bike

Ianoliphant2001
Ianoliphant2001 Posts: 22
in Road general
I've got a Defy Advanced sl 0 which is amazing with some decent wheels (mavic ksyrium pro). Im pondering getting some really nice carbon wheels for it. However, for the price of these wheels you can get some pretty nice second hand bikes. Not sure........wheels or another nice bike.
Thoughts?

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,313
    Not a good time to buy from Mavic
    left the forum March 2023
  • Ianoliphant2001
    Ianoliphant2001 Posts: 22
    Looking at the new hunt 44ud or the new zipp303s. Pretty similar in price and depth. However, 1k can buy a decent second bike......
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    You've described your own bike as being amazing so how much better do you expect another one to be? Seems like you want to buy another bike and have just come here for validation.
  • kevin_stephens
    kevin_stephens Posts: 184
    Isn't that the whole point of this forum? :-)

    I want to climb hills so badly;
    and I climb hills so badly
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    kevin_stephens said:

    Isn't that the whole point of this forum? :-)



    Exactly, the answer is always to buy another bike.
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  • joe_totale-2
    joe_totale-2 Posts: 1,333
    What kind of bike would you look to buy?
    The Defy is a pretty capable road bike so you don't really need another one of those.

    If you were looking to buy something like a mountain bike then I'd say go and buy that instead of fancy wheels as it's good to do a variety of riding.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    edited May 2020
    kevin_stephens said:

    Isn't that the whole point of this forum? :-)



    Err no. Ideally the OP should have told us what he expects to gain from buying a new bike or new wheels. By his own admission he already has a rather good bike and wheelset and when oxoman gave him sound advice on wheels he seemed to ignore it and suggested some of his own that he's already set eyes on, hence my observation that he seems to just want validation.

    The standard response in these situations I suppose is to say new wheels and bike might get you some marginal gains but losing some weight and pursuing a structured training program will usually yield some significant gains and not cost anything.
  • Ianoliphant2001
    Ianoliphant2001 Posts: 22
    So I went with this.........colnago c50. The wheels can wait.......
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Well it's a lovely looking bike for sure. Was it within your 1k budget?
  • Ianoliphant2001
    Ianoliphant2001 Posts: 22
    Just a smidge over.....
  • lesfirth
    lesfirth Posts: 1,382
    Nice looking bike . Can we have some better pics. and the spec.

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