Sorry not retro, Opinions needed for a friend.

[Beaker]

Sorry not retro. Opinions needed for a friend.

Trying to get him into the retro thing, but it's either in the blood or not. That's my I love early Beetles and he loves new Subaru!

http://www.focusbikesuk.com/focus-full- ... xtreme.php

Thanks bike gurus

 

[development_cycle]

Know nothing about them at all. Have a friend here at work that bought one of their road bikes through Wiggle and loves it though.

Tim

 

[Cristian-T]

Not bad bikes, priced well, but their carbon frames are made to price, & do contain elements of resin glue. this is not a bad thing thing, its just a cheaper way of producing the framesets. But you dont get the genuine feel that some high qaulity carbon frames can give.

 

[plexus]

Focus is the bike company founded by the famous Mike Kluge.

http://www.focusbikes.de/englisch_neu/pioneers/kluge.htm

Can't be that bad

 

[Cristian-T]

hah! i remember mike kluge, legend. i didnt know he started focus. i didnt mean to say they were bad bikes at all, they are no different from lots of other brands doing good bikes these days

 

[FairfaxPat]

sorry

That is an extremely light bike for a long travel disc brake bike-the head tube angle of 70-70.5 is kinda steep, so it will be a good cross-country race bike, but not as stable in the high-speed downhill regime.

 

[Andy B]

Quite a bit of an unknown to me, but if you ask on here you might get some more info. Good friendly forum for more modern stuff.

I'm from there & found you guys through a post about a retro bike on uk-mtb.com, I'm possibly about to have a mid life crisis by buying a '93 Orange Clockwork

 

[Russell]

Focus normally get pretty good write ups in *cough* Cycling Plus *cough*, but thats their road range. Always seem to be good value for money. Know nothing about their MTBs though

 

[Will Palmer]

No idea on the bike itself... but I have to admit, I do quite like the single gold and red spoke in an otherwise black spoked wheel

 

[Pickle]

Know nothing about them at all. Have a friend here at work that bought one of their road bikes through Wiggle and loves it though.

Tim

And Wiggle would endorse rubbish......