Road bike questions

[starseven]

£200 up will get you an 08 Specialized Globe online, brand new, great bike. Something like this..wheelies tellem you work for a nationwide bs and get a 25% discount.

If you go second hand you will probably spend as much fixing it up and then decide you want something new anyway.

 

[gratts]

Honestly, I wouldn't want something new.
It'd probably get stolen within a week, the amount of us students there are milling around!
I'll secure whatever I get good, but I just wouldn't want to risk it.

I've also come down from my original £200 enthusiasm and would be happy with a £100 jobby! Just something to get me from A-B reliably really, nothing amazing..

 

[mickle]

The Poojo is a POS, they made some good bikes but that isn't one of them. Giant's OK though.

 

[mickle]

Gratts
Any good ?
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Wicked! Trouble is, when you own a Schwinn(g!) you become behoven to sign up to www.ratrodbikes.com and turn it into some olde skoole board-tracker, hot-rod, Klunker or some such fecking lovely nonsense.

 

[gratts]

Another I'd like input on..

 

[palinurus]

Chain's a bit short.

Do you want something that, with a bit of a tune-up, will work fine or are you happy getting a cheaper S/H bike and undertaking some rebuilding, spending some of the budget on parts etc?

 

[gratts]

I'd rather the former..something I could ideally use from the off if need be.

 

[swee'pea99]

Um...Nottingham....that's a ways from Southampton. Unh? Doesn't look ike anything special...what caught your eye? And are you looking further? Because if you are, you can probably do a lot better. (The ones I listed t'other day were selected to be within 50 miles of S'ton.)

PS Yikes - just went back for another look..."Collection only (from Derby)"

 

[gratts]

Sorry..probably should have explained!
Parents are up in Nottingham, and they're probably coming down to visit in the next couple of weeks, so I could buy & pay for one nearby to them then they collect when they come down.
So basically I'm looking within 10/25 miles of Southampton and Nottingham!

 

[swee'pea99]

Fair do's. Derby's a fair way from Nottingham tho'....

 

[wafflycat]

If you haven't already got them, don't forget to budget for lights and a D-lock...

 

[gratts]

Yep I've remembered that.
I think my uni does decent D-locks at cost price to try and cut down on their crime figures, so I'll look into picking one of those up.
£20-25 I think they were.

Also, is this a pile of garbage or anything close to half decent?
Reason I ask is that the bloke is prepared to deliver, so it'd be an option..

 

[swee'pea99]

Judging by this, probably best avoided. Weight isn't everything, but it is a lot.

Suddenly occurs to me, do you know what size frame you need? That matters quite a lot too.

 

[gratts]

Yeah, I worked out 56cm..
That one's 57cm.

Does a few cm make a lot of difference?

 

[PpPete]

Wicked! Trouble is, when you own a Schwinn(g!) you become behoven to sign up to www.ratrodbikes.com and turn it into some olde skoole board-tracker, hot-rod, Klunker or some such fecking lovely nonsense.

Unfortunately it's not one of the "classic" Schwinn models. It's one of their attempts at a more conventional European style....and then some one put straight bars on it. I use for local trips to shops and so on because a lightweight lock is sufficient.