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Sad as it was a good shop but there should be a few bargains to be had. http://www.sweeney-kincaid.com/Sales/Sa ... aleId=2225

They look good and have all the heritage but I've read lots from people hating the mini V brakes they put on them now. I've now narrowed it down to either the Kinesis or a Dolan. The Dolan is the better value. The basic is around £640 with Sora and stock wheels, I can upgrade it to Tiagra and...

I'm starting to ignore the ones I looked at and getting more and more swayed towards a Kinesis Crosslight 5T. It looks like a great bike straight out the box. A guy at a LBS is looking into what kind of build he can do me and keep it below the £1k...

It's a bit of a minefield out there with cross bikes it seems. Not helped by shops having vast amounts of bikes on their websites but non in the shop for you to actually look at in the flesh. I'm reluctant to spend a lot of money on something I can't even have a test ride on. The Merida Cyclo...

As good a chance as any, looks great apart from the saddle which looks about ten years older than the bike.

My first ever attempt at making an off road bike about 1980 when I was still at school (wider tyres and cow horn handlebars) was with a badly painted bike I bought off someone (local dodgy geezer) for a tenner, after trashing it I tried to strip the paint and discovered it was actually a Galaxy...

Right, I need your advise here. I've been thinking about a cross bike for general duties and hammering around town as I prefer a fast drop bar bike for commuting and my road bike is out the question as the streets in Edinburgh meant constant truing of the wheels and the mix of cobbles and...

Re: Help thinking of buying a Carrera road bike! £269 any go Totally variable depending on the rider and terrain. A decent fitness roadie on 60km or 100km training run would be averaging somewhere round about 20mph. It's easy on a road bike to blast it for 10km or so it's when the distances...

Re: Help thinking of buying a Carrera road bike! £269 any go I think it annoys because the guy on the MTB tends not to be in the middle of a long ride. Balance it out over 50 miles and a decent standard roadie will blow you into the weeds on average speed.

Re: Help thinking of buying a Carrera road bike! £269 any go I find the Sora with the little thumb switch on the side of the shifter a hateful thing. I think the new 9 speed Sora has double levers like the higher spec group sets. On a side note I had a Sora front shifter with the little...

I got through loads of the damned things trying to find one I liked and that fitted properly, eventually ended up with a Louis Garneau one from Evans. Very light and comfy with great ventilation. http://www.bikerumor.com/2012/01/24/rev ... eight-edg/

Just thought I'd pop this on here before I go to general sale. I'm in the middle of a bit of a monster clear out as I'm Needing to make my flat actually livable in and I'm trying to get the funds together for a CX bike and my long term project to get a full suss for the summer. I'm flogging...

A great frame of reference is that from Elvis Presley to punk was only 20 years!! And just think of everything that happened in those 20 years.

From the website "The Team SST, as with all Dekerf frames, is made one at a time specifically for each customer by Chris Dekerf himself" Amazing.

Or how about this?