Carrera TDF Fork help

[griff488]

Not sure I'd be allowed (SWMBO may have something to say about that despite the formula for the correct no of bikes being N+1) or if I'm even getting a new one. I adapt the same formula to the number of motorcycles I need too!
need to see how this cycle scheme works first.

 

[vickster]

. I adapt the same formula to the number of motorcycles I need too!
need to see how this cycle scheme works first.

None, sell them and get push bikes instead, cheaper to buy and maintain and take up less space, win win

Also keep you fit, and don't pollute the environment, especially noise pollution!

 

[griff488]

None, sell them and get push bikes instead, cheaper to buy and maintain and take up less space, win win

Also keep you fit, and don't pollute the environment, especially noise pollution!

Yeah but my push bikes are nowhere near as much fun! You can't do 0-60mph in under 3 seconds on them for a start!!
I'm afraid you will have to wrench them from my cold dead hands if you want me to give them up!

 

[vickster]

Well if you are doing 0-60 in 3 seconds on UK roads, the cold dead hands could become a reality but you're unlikely to still be holding the bike or attached to it in anyway stay safe and sensible

You're not riding the push bikes right if it's not fun or maybe you don't have the right bike

 

[griff488]

No offence but that is the most predictable response!!
I never said it wasn't fun! Just not as much fun as my motorbike!

 

[vickster]

No offence but that is the most predictable response!!
I never said it wasn't fun! Just not as much fun as my motorbike!

Can't say it doesn't happen however

 

[e-rider]

Thanks for the replies folks. I'm looking to change to carbon forks and bars to hopefully reduce some of the buzz from the front end

putting a carbon fork on a Carrera TDF from Halfords is somewhat like polishing a turd. I would consider buying a new frame and fork set by one of the cheaper dealers like Ribble or Planet-x

 

[griff488]

and so does getting run over by a bus or dying in a plane crash but millions still use them

Can't say it doesn't happen however

 

[griff488]

putting a carbon fork on a Carrera TDF from Halfords is somewhat like polishing a turd. I would consider buying a new frame and fork set by one of the cheaper dealers like Ribble or Planet-x

Thanks for your useless comment! Not everyone can afford brand new frames. The TDF has done me fine but I figured I'd try and update it a bit. I wish I could afford to spend hundreds of pounds on new bikes but that's not going to happen.

 

[vickster]

A decent carbon fork and bars will cost you £100-200, although the bars won't make any great difference (even the pros don;t bother with them ofteN

You could get a carbon frame with fork for £300 and transfer the TDF parts across http://www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/frames/road-bike-frames/carbon-bike-frames (PX are part of quidco too)

 

[cyberknight]

A decent carbon fork and bars will cost you £100-200, although the bars won't make any great difference (even the pros don;t bother with them ofteN

You could get a carbon frame with fork for £300 and transfer the TDF parts across http://www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/frames/road-bike-frames/carbon-bike-frames (PX are part of quidco too)

Gah , only 1 colour in small and i dont want another white bike .

 

[vickster]

You can get other colours for £100 more

http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRPXPCRFF/planet-x-pro-carbon-road-frameset

 

[si_c]

TBH, as has been said above, I'd just go with some wider tyres, you can run these at a low pressure, and that'll eliminate a lot of road buzz.

I run Vittoria Rubino's, basic road tyre. http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/ro...igid-vittoria-rubino-3-rigid-tyre/vitttyrr355 less than £20 for two, go for the 700x25c or 700x28c (if you have a lot of space around the tyre on your bike, you need to check you can fit a tyre that's 1/2cm wider).

I have a steel bike, no carbon fork, no road buzz unless the surface is particularly bad, and I run the 700x23c

 

[griff488]

Thanks for the link vickster and that does look great but I haven't got £300! I might be able to get one on the cycle to work scheme but even thats pushing it.
I wouldn't be spending anywhere near that on a set of second hand forks!

 

[griff488]

TBH, as has been said above, I'd just go with some wider tyres, you can run these at a low pressure, and that'll eliminate a lot of road buzz.

I run Vittoria Rubino's, basic road tyre. http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/ro...igid-vittoria-rubino-3-rigid-tyre/vitttyrr355 less than £20 for two, go for the 700x25c or 700x28c (if you have a lot of space around the tyre on your bike, you need to check you can fit a tyre that's 1/2cm wider).

I have a steel bike, no carbon fork, no road buzz unless the surface is particularly bad, and I run the 700x23c

I will look at tyres as the ones on there are lugano 23c so might be worth trying wider/better quality ones.
From what people have said I will probably still go for a carbon fork but leave the bars for now and will try different tyres first (change one thing at a time and all that )