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And it's too big for you if that's all the seatpost you have showing.
It's for the 'lad' who's nearly 6 foot and growing but seems to have short legs. Seat tube is long though. Changed the silly long stem but have yet to fit it properly.
read this thread, fell down a rabbit hole and met the Fairlight Strael, which is rather nice (though I appreciate not the OP's budget).
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which road.cc loved, and comes in about £1K less than a Definition for similar spec
http://road.cc/content/review/216171-fairlight-cycles-strael
Jury is still out for me, the brake rub and extra weight are blooming annoying with discs. And they are an extra expense.
I think for me now I'd have 2 bikes, one with discs for crap weather and one with rim brakes for fast, nice days and racing. Luckily that's what I do have 🙂
I'd decide depending on which bike i liked the most. Wouldn't be fussed either way which type of brake my nice summer bike had.
Nice bike Kryton. Rode my Dura Ace Defy Sunday, rode my Ultegra Propel tonight. I have no reason to believe the shifting and feel of 105 are any different and I can barely tell the top two apart. Just half a water bottle difference in weight. I think people who moan about road calipets are used to braking on the hoods, not the drops - hence the force they apply is low and the stopping poor. Discs increase this mechanical advantage. Grabbing a chunk of brakes when descending on the drops never sees me lacking power, wet or not.
And 52/36 is fantastic with a 28-11, 11 speed. All year gearing.
Bugger. I've awoken with a finger hovering over a button:
Fun, racy, spritely, carbon 45's light but slightly harsher with rim brakes?
or
Fairly fun, Sportive, Alu 30's comfy ride .75kg heavier with disks?
😀
*flips coin*
Fun over fairly fun, surely?
My winter/commuter has discs. My summer pride and joy has rim brakes on carbon rims.
I started a what bike thread for an n+1 road bike and initially stipulated discs. Ended up ordering a rim braked bike.
oops 🙂
Nice bike K57, just buy it, ride it hard.
I thought about disc brakes when I was looking into a new bike a couple of weeks ago, in the end I didn't bother as they were more expensive, and I'm not sure you can use them (with clip-on aero bars) in triathlons.
What I didn't realise was quite how massive a difference decent caliper brakes make - I didn't have any particular problem stopping with the Tektro+Sora combination on my old bike, but moving up to Ultegra.... wow. I can see that locking the wheel could now be a real issue when it's damp!
The Boardman CX Team is in Halfords latest sale, £800 before BC discounts and/or vouchers.
Anyone know if will fit wider tyres than the 35s it comes equipped with?
just buy it
Trigger. Pulled.
At the risk of sounding ungrateful this is a choice of what I can buy in the value of £1560 at Wiggle current lineup on their site. Its a warranty replacement and not my "special" bike (which I'm not prepared to buy yet and why I didn't add money to it) but given the restriction and the generosity of wiggle I think I've done OK for a racy summer bike - its a decent bike for the job.