opinions on this bike please?

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opinions on this bike please?

Postby thecaptn » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:50 am

http://www.probikekit.com.au/bikes/gene ... 77200.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is the cheepest CX bike I can find, full Cro-mo and discs. Seems pretty good for the money, probably a bit heavy and looks to have a short top tube.
What do others think?
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Re: opinions on this bike please?

Postby Mugglechops » Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:47 am

Looks good for the price.

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Postby simonn » Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:51 am

Pretty much what you've written - cheap and probably heavy. Effective TT length seems to be pretty much inline with what I would expect for the ST length (based on my cx and all three roadies) though.

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Re: opinions on this bike please?

Postby rkelsen » Mon Jul 29, 2013 10:17 am

As above, it looks ok for the price, if that's what you want.

Would you be buying it to race on? Or to ride to work?

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Postby thecaptn » Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:24 am

rkelsen wrote:As above, it looks ok for the price, if that's what you want.

Would you be buying it to race on? Or to ride to work?
Not for racing, for country roads, dirt/gravel and steep hills. I'd consider puting a MTB rear derailier and 36 cassette on it I think and that would put the cost by a couple of hundred dollars I imagine.

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Postby rkelsen » Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:01 pm

If you're going to upgrade it, then it becomes less worthwhile.

You'll probably be better off in the long run if you extend your budget a bit and buy a better bike to begin with.

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Postby thecaptn » Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:22 pm

rkelsen wrote:If you're going to upgrade it, then it becomes less worthwhile.

You'll probably be better off in the long run if you extend your budget a bit and buy a better bike to begin with.
Yes you're right, I'll keep looking.
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Postby thecaptn » Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:20 pm

Price just went up anyway, never mind.

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Postby cyclotaur » Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:41 pm

You can buy similarly specced CX bikes here in Australia for around $800 - L can't see why you buy one unseen from PBK. :?
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Postby thecaptn » Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:49 pm

cyclotaur wrote:You can buy similarly specced CX bikes here in Australia for around $800 - L can't see why you buy one unseen from PBK. :?
I must be looking in the wrong places, where should I find them?

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Postby cyclotaur » Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:15 pm

2023 Target: 9.500kms/100,000m
My old blog - A bit of fun :)
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Re: opinions on this bike please?

Postby thecaptn » Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:33 pm

Awesome, thanks.
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Re: opinions on this bike please?

Postby silentbutdeadly » Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:43 pm

Norco Threshold 3 is almost exactly the same spec and typically can be had for under a grand. Plus it has more rack mounts than any sane person would ever need.
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Postby thecaptn » Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:24 pm

The Norco looks good too. I cracked the frame on my last Norco and had to trade it in but hopefully that was a manufacturing fault.

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Postby clackers » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:32 pm

thecaptn wrote:The Norco looks good too. I cracked the frame on my last Norco and had to trade it in but hopefully that was a manufacturing fault.
Hopefully an outlier. As I understand it, toughness is what Norco aimed for, at least in MTBs, at the expense of weight and cost.

But they may have lost their individuality now they're owned by Pacific Brands.

They may simply be the Canadian Malvern Star these days.

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Postby silentbutdeadly » Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:55 am

Norco (as I understand it) are not a Pacific Brands company. Norco and their parent company, Live to Play Sports in Canada is a seperate company in its own right.

Norco are now distributed into Oz by Advance Traders who also bring in Merida and Lapierre. They have nothing to do with Pacific Brands
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Re: opinions on this bike please?

Postby clackers » Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:39 am

silentbutdeadly wrote:Norco (as I understand it) are not a Pacific Brands company. Norco and their parent company, Live to Play Sports in Canada is a seperate company in its own right.

Norco are now distributed into Oz by Advance Traders who also bring in Merida and Lapierre. They have nothing to do with Pacific Brands
Ah, good to know, SBD.

Pacific were the importers from 2010, but that must have changed.

My wife has one of their VFR hybrids.

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Re: opinions on this bike please?

Postby thecaptn » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:06 pm

VFR1 is what I had, 08 or 09. One of the first 700c bikes to come standard with hydrolic discs, It was a cool bike.

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