New road bike decisions
dimmockg
Posts: 471
Green light for a new road bike
Curretly riding a cube agree gtc from 2012 - certainly served well.
Looking for something for longish more leisurely based rides (as the wife has just got a bike). Was naturally thinking more endurance / sportive type. My budget is certainly no more than £1500
Ideally I'd like something with 105 (or better), not fussed about discs at all. Not overly fused whether carbon or aluminium - assuming weight difference isn't that vast.
I'm liking the following....
Trek Domane
Trek Emonda alr5 (I know it's more race based than Domane
Did look at/try a cube attain (53) but didn't really like it
I keep looking at the look 765 on Merlin (no pun intended)
Anything glaringly obvious I've missed? I'm limited locally to specialized, giant (tried the racier tcr2), focus, cube, trek. A bit further for Scott and cannondale
Cheers
Curretly riding a cube agree gtc from 2012 - certainly served well.
Looking for something for longish more leisurely based rides (as the wife has just got a bike). Was naturally thinking more endurance / sportive type. My budget is certainly no more than £1500
Ideally I'd like something with 105 (or better), not fussed about discs at all. Not overly fused whether carbon or aluminium - assuming weight difference isn't that vast.
I'm liking the following....
Trek Domane
Trek Emonda alr5 (I know it's more race based than Domane
Did look at/try a cube attain (53) but didn't really like it
I keep looking at the look 765 on Merlin (no pun intended)
Anything glaringly obvious I've missed? I'm limited locally to specialized, giant (tried the racier tcr2), focus, cube, trek. A bit further for Scott and cannondale
Cheers
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Any reason why you haven't considered Canyon?0
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Rumour is the Giant Defy will be an all new frame for 2019. Worth a look. Details should come out soon.0
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In all honesty I'd completely over looked canyon
Thanks for the info on giant defy models0 -
Here is my slightly shorter list....
Giant Tcr 2 - tried a few weeks back and was impressive
Trek emonda alr5 - not ridden yet but think local shop has one
Cube attain gtc pro
I had discounted the cube but had another ride on it and it felt much better than previous - I was a little rushed before (wife and kids) so had a bit longer this time around0 -
Only comment I'd add are given time of year, if you hang on a month or two you might start to see some decent savings on 2018 models as 2019 models start coming into the shops.0
