Eurobike
- Thread starter Suddabym
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
iluvmybike
Über Member
Don't go there - it is junk - hence price
Road bike probably go used around £350-£400
Thanks
Someone is selling one of those near where I live might go check it out. Thanks
Attachments
vickster
Legendary Member
Buy it new, so you get the aftersales and warranty. I certainly wouldn’t pay that much given the low cost to start with.
No idea what a 28” bike is…does he mean the wheels?
I’m assuming so yes lol
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
utter carp.... bolt on wheels super heavy, those weird shifters..... spend on a better secondhand bike instead
Twilkes
Guru
bonzobanana
Guru
I noticed on ebay a very similar bike to the eurobike that was sold at £99.95 but has recently gone up to £109.95. I believe it might be manufactured by a company called Royal Tianjin bicycles. It seems they are a big manufacturer of these steel road bikes and there are also trade houses selling factory capacity and importers buying from them so you will see the same frame etc on many different brands with different component choices. This ebay model looks to be more of a gravel bike really with its disc brakes, mountain bike crankset and groupset components. The saddle is more comfort orientated. It actually comes with a threadless fork and headset which again is more gravel because typically very cheap road bikes come with quill stems because often there is only one frame size so you need to be able to make easy handlebar height adjustment. About 4 years ago when i was interested in bike manufacturers of China I found out that fuji-ta were doing robot made steel frames for about $5 where as their aluminium frames were more like $15-25. I suspect these could be very quickly robot manufactured frames so the welds might look untidy at times but if its anything like fuji-ta they claim an extremely low failure rate for their steel frames better than any other material. It's already a heavy bike due to its frame and forks so those mudguards, kick stand, big saddle and that super heavy crankset and pedals are not going to do it any favours weight wise. The tyres could be super heavy too. It's about 14-15kg I think in total.
Is it a good bike, it might be if you put in the time to make sure its all adjusted correctly and put grease where needed. I very much doubt it comes as a good bike because these cheap bikes are sort of thrown together at the factory to meet a price point. On the positive side those disc brakes will likely stop better than any classic road bike and the steel frame and forks will likely never fail even if they take some abuse. I suspect the gearing will be difficult to index nicely as it has a 8 speed freewheel so the freewheel wobble will be more pronounced and with a 3x front chainring I can see it being a indexing nightmare. If you actually replaced the rear wheel with a freehub based wheel with a 8 speed cassette I could see indexing being very good. Obviously to many cyclists 15kg is an unacceptable weight. I don't share those sentiments myself I've ridden many heavy bikes and yes it slows you on hills but I've never found it as big a deal as many suggest.
Not sure what the drivetrain components are, looks like it could be LTWoo but the text says Microshift but more likely the cheaper Micronew or LTWoo.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403293091726
Is it a good bike, it might be if you put in the time to make sure its all adjusted correctly and put grease where needed. I very much doubt it comes as a good bike because these cheap bikes are sort of thrown together at the factory to meet a price point. On the positive side those disc brakes will likely stop better than any classic road bike and the steel frame and forks will likely never fail even if they take some abuse. I suspect the gearing will be difficult to index nicely as it has a 8 speed freewheel so the freewheel wobble will be more pronounced and with a 3x front chainring I can see it being a indexing nightmare. If you actually replaced the rear wheel with a freehub based wheel with a 8 speed cassette I could see indexing being very good. Obviously to many cyclists 15kg is an unacceptable weight. I don't share those sentiments myself I've ridden many heavy bikes and yes it slows you on hills but I've never found it as big a deal as many suggest.
Not sure what the drivetrain components are, looks like it could be LTWoo but the text says Microshift but more likely the cheaper Micronew or LTWoo.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403293091726