Triban 3! Woo!

[Col5632]

Yes it's £200 more - that was in your response to your "I thought the Triban 5 was a good bit more expensive also"

Ah sorry i thought you meant it was £200 cause most people said it was the same

 

[Scoosh]

Col, Fubar et al - we have a problem .....

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

14 years old and 5'5" we better watch our language and keep Lisa21 away from him

 

[Deleted member 20519]

I'll have some more pics up later in an alum, I'm struggling to get the pedals off though

The bike as standard

Front view

Brakes

Removed the wheel reflectors and lights, added btwin saddlebag

I'll post some proper pics tomorrow, I plan to commute to school with it.

 

[Deleted member 20519]

All I can say is holy **** this bike is light and fast!

 

[smokeysmoo]

I'll have some more pics up later in an alum, I'm struggling to get the pedals off though

Ideally make sure you are using a proper pedal spanner, they're long for a good reason., and make sure your undoing them the right way, both pedals undo towards th back of the bike.

Last thing, watch your knuckles on the chainring, they hurt


FYI, just found this that sums it up nicely,

"Beginners who have a problem remembering which way to turn the wrench when removing pedals should remember the saying "back off". No matter what side of the bike you are working on, right or left, you mount your wrench on the top side of the pedal bolt and then turn the wrench toward the back of the bike to remove the pedal ---"back off". Then just remember when replacing the pedal or adding a new pedal to turn the wrench forward to tighten. Make sure you mount the wrench from the top of the pedal or you will be working in the opposite direction. So remember 1) mount the wrench on top of the pedal bolt and 2) "back off"

 

[Deleted member 20519]

Ideally make sure you are using a proper pedal spanner, they're long for a good reason., and make sure your undoing them the right way, both pedals undo towards th back of the bike.

Last thing, watch your knuckles on the chainring, they hurt

Don't have a proper spanner, unfortunately. Going to leave the flat pedals on and take off the toe cages and take it down to the bike shop and get them to fit them.

 

[lb81]

Nice. You will enjoy the T3. 1500 miles on mine since February!

Amazing bike for the money. And i prefer the red of T3 to the white T5.

Enjoy

 

[Deleted member 20519]

Nice. You will enjoy the T3. 1500 miles on mine since February!

Amazing bike for the money. And i prefer the red of T3 to the white T5.

Enjoy

Will do! Loving it already!

 

[smokeysmoo]

Don't have a proper spanner, unfortunately. Going to leave the flat pedals on and take off the toe cages and take it down to the bike shop and get them to fit them.

OK, most of the bikes I've bought have always come with one, I think they are usually 15mm.

You can use a standard spanner, and being new they should come off easily enough.

Whether you do it,or you get the shop to do it make sure to use some copper grease on the new threads, or you'll have a hell of job ever removing them again

 

[Deleted member 20519]

OK, most of the bikes I've bought have always come with one, I think they are usually 15mm.

You can use a standard spanner, and being new they should come off easily enough.

Whether you do it,or you get the shop to do it make sure to use some copper grease on the new threads, or you'll have a hell of job ever removing them again

My spanners quite thick and the crank and the frame is quite a slim whole, don't want to scratch/strip anything yet. I can leave it till tomorrow.

 

[Deleted member 20519]

In case anyone was wondering, it's a 54cm. I tried out the 51 but I felt too cramped.

 

[Primal Scream]

Nice one, I hope you get a lot of pleasure from it. Awesome value.

Side issue, when I was 14 I got my first "proper" bike as well, a Carlton Continental with 5 speed Benelux gears ​

 

[sittingbull]

Very nice!

 

[defy-one]

Congratulations dude from one tribani to another :-)