irishceltie
Active Member
Anyone know what its like? Its a stratos road racing bike and its yours for 800 quid. looks alright in the mag.
bikes for sale in lidl.
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Is it coming to the UK - ah guess you are in Ireland.
The spec - Ultegra and the shimano wheels alone are worth more than £800.
The frame will be OK I suspect, and it has carbon forks. It's good value I'll say that.
The spec - Ultegra and the shimano wheels alone are worth more than £800.
The frame will be OK I suspect, and it has carbon forks. It's good value I'll say that.
Banjo
Fuelled with Jelly Babies
- Location
- South Wales
It seems the Irish get a quality bike at a bargain price while the British stores have Unicycles for £35 .i have had a brilliant idea. Buy two and weld them into a triangular frame made out of metal tube.Any ideas what to call my invention?
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Banjo said:Any ideas what to call my invention?
Two lidl wheels?
http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home_ni.nsf/pages/c.o.20092675.Road_Racing_Bike
ah well... luck of the Irish, sure beats a uni-cycle.
ah well... luck of the Irish, sure beats a uni-cycle.
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irishceltie
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Its northern ireland where its been sold so i suspect they will be sold throughout the ukfossyant said:
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irishceltie
Active Member
I'm thinking of making it my first dropped bar road bike. Good idea?
Andy in Sig
Vice President in Exile
- Location
- Sigmaringen, Germany
Dayvo said:
No that's already called a Brompton. Do try to keep up.
andy_wrx
Über Member
Now in the UK : £749
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090622.p.Road_Racing_Bike.ar1
(NB you may or may not see it as it looks like it's only in certain UK regions, so it may depend what your store is set to...)
In Northern Ireland again at £799/Republic €899
http://www.lidl.ie/IE/home_ni.nsf/pages/c.o.20092780.Road_Racing_Bike
Full Ultegra triple groupo, including chainset, brakes, etc - no dliution with Tektro or FSA or 105 bits
RS10 wheels
PDR-540 pedals
Selle Italia saddle
Alu frame, carbon fork
Branded as 'Stratos', whatever that means it is underneath...
(that downtube is quite distinctive - looks like this http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=26893, where Brand-X is CRC's own brand : presumably it's a Taiwanese frame from Merida or someone)
Buy in store, home delivery : so essentially you're buying a bike unseen just like you would on the internet and have to assemble it yourself at home and adjust the gears, etc, plus you won't get a bike-fit and won't have the back-up as if you bought it in your LBS.
I'd be tempted if I were in the market for an alu bike and had that sort of budget to spend, but I wonder who exactly will buy one ?
- the sort of person who does their weekly grocery shop in Lidl isn't going to want to spend £750
- most bike enthusiasts won't want a Lidl-brand bike
- many newbies will be put-off by the home-assembly bit
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090622.p.Road_Racing_Bike.ar1
(NB you may or may not see it as it looks like it's only in certain UK regions, so it may depend what your store is set to...)
In Northern Ireland again at £799/Republic €899
http://www.lidl.ie/IE/home_ni.nsf/pages/c.o.20092780.Road_Racing_Bike
Full Ultegra triple groupo, including chainset, brakes, etc - no dliution with Tektro or FSA or 105 bits
RS10 wheels
PDR-540 pedals
Selle Italia saddle
Alu frame, carbon fork
Branded as 'Stratos', whatever that means it is underneath...
(that downtube is quite distinctive - looks like this http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=26893, where Brand-X is CRC's own brand : presumably it's a Taiwanese frame from Merida or someone)
Buy in store, home delivery : so essentially you're buying a bike unseen just like you would on the internet and have to assemble it yourself at home and adjust the gears, etc, plus you won't get a bike-fit and won't have the back-up as if you bought it in your LBS.
I'd be tempted if I were in the market for an alu bike and had that sort of budget to spend, but I wonder who exactly will buy one ?
- the sort of person who does their weekly grocery shop in Lidl isn't going to want to spend £750
- most bike enthusiasts won't want a Lidl-brand bike
- many newbies will be put-off by the home-assembly bit
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
andy_wrx said:
bit like Boardman's - which is good as it leaves more of them in stock for those of us who can see past a bit of badge engineering label
xpc316e
Veteran
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
Well, in answer to the question of how many people will buy this bike from Lidl, I would if I wanted a road bike. It seems very good value for money as long as you are capable of the self-assembly aspect of the purchase. I would have no worries about being seen on a Lidl brand bike - it just seems to signify that I know a bargain when I see one.
andy_wrx
Über Member
b0redom said:
Answer - I don't know !
I think you'd have to ask in the shop (assuming they know), but I'd expect that you wouldn't be getting a box of component parts and be expected to build it from the frame up.
More likely
- wheels would be separate
- pedals not fitted
- handlebars not fitted : brakes and gears would be cabled-up, stem might be twisted round to face backwards, so would need stem adjusting forwards and handlebars fitting into it
- saddle and seatpost loose in the box
- bell, reflectors, stuff like that loose in box
- brakes and gears would be cabled-up but perhaps not adjuscted right, so would involve setting up gear max/min stops and indexing
Shouldn't be anything beyond the skills of a competent home bike mechanic/DIY'er, with set of allen keys, but as I say, I don't actually know...
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I'm currently looking to buy my first road bike and this Lidl bike is around my price bracket. I tried a couple of bottom range bikes around the £550 mark by Giant and Trek but they felt pretty 'cheap'.
From what people are saying on here about the quality of the chain set and other components I'm wondering if it's worth taking a punt on this Lidl bike and then in a year or so when I'm looking to upgrade to a slightly better bike I might be able to re-use a lot of the components and buy a good frame. Does this sound like a good idea?
From what people are saying on here about the quality of the chain set and other components I'm wondering if it's worth taking a punt on this Lidl bike and then in a year or so when I'm looking to upgrade to a slightly better bike I might be able to re-use a lot of the components and buy a good frame. Does this sound like a good idea?
