Third Road Bike
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Third Road Bike
Postby HoldYaLine » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:26 pm
Recently two friends bought the same bike and it was hilarious, they hate riding together in the club with the same colours, ahhhh so funny. But the scary part was, I was about to buy this bike aswell, so it could've been all three of us. it was the Giant TCR Advanced SL 1 (2012) for anyone wondering.
But since they just bought this bike, i don't know what to look at...
Because, they let me ride it the other day and it felt amazing so it would've been the perfect bike, the only thing stopping me is having the same bike as two other friends in the club.
The bike is full and quite a high grade of carbon, they havn't put good wheels on yet and it came in at a tad over 7.5 kg. So i will be looking at something similair to this weight. They also have Full dura ace componentry throughout so thats another thing i'd like. (doesn't have to be dura ace, quite a fan of SRAM Red and ultegra to save a bit of cash. (no di2 btw I dont' like it.) oh and less than about 6grand
So yeah, if any of you have bikes similair but not the same to the Sl 1 please, be my guest.
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby HoldYaLine » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:27 pm
So yeah, if any of you know of bikes similair please tell me
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby moosterbounce » Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:09 pm
If you switch wheels etc it will look like a different bike I reckon. Just get it - you know you want to
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby jasonc » Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:16 pm
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby warthog1 » Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:12 pm
But also free of the poseur aspect that is sometimes associated with other bike brandsdeadrat wrote: Giant - about as unexciting as a bike can get.
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby redcorpsjames » Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:10 pm
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby jasonc » Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:40 pm
the only good bike is one you ride, often!redcorpsjames wrote:Yeah saw this fat old poseur guy riding a 10k colnago at the gong ride with campy boras on it. I was a little bit jealous. The giants are not a poseur bike and in my opinion are not boring either. They used to be but the new ones are really nice.
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby HoldYaLine » Tue Nov 06, 2012 5:50 pm
I did the gong too, such a fun and beautiful rideredcorpsjames wrote:Yeah saw this fat old poseur guy riding a 10k colnago at the gong ride with campy boras on it. I was a little bit jealous. The giants are not a poseur bike and in my opinion are not boring either. They used to be but the new ones are really nice.
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby Morrie » Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:02 pm
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby Ross » Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:56 am
Giant = Holden Commodorewarthog1 wrote:But also free of the poseur aspect that is sometimes associated with other bike brandsdeadrat wrote: Giant - about as unexciting as a bike can get.
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby __PG__ » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:30 am
"She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid".
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby jasonc » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:33 am
the saying I always like is__PG__ wrote:The TCR Advanced SL 1 is IMO more akin to a Lotus Exige, a Caterham or the Millenium Falcon.
"She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid".
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Re: Third Road Bike
Postby Pravda » Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:31 pm
Buying a common bike brand so you don't look like a poseur puts you firmly in the poseur category in my opinion.warthog1 wrote:But also free of the poseur aspect that is sometimes associated with other bike brandsdeadrat wrote: Giant - about as unexciting as a bike can get.
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