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Postby Tim » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:52 pm
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby rodneycc » Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:09 pm
Personally like the 2016 Defy Advanced SL 0 the best I think. Edit: Or a Propel Advanced SL Team Alpecin (that one looks nice!)
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Re: 2016 Range
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby Duck! » Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:50 pm
On the MTB front, the only new things are a carbon Glory downhill bike, and a subtle frame tweak on the Anthem 29er, to beef up the infamously fragile seat tube/top tube junction. There is a very tasty XTC Advanced SL with XTR Di2 and Fox's electronically-operated fork lockout.
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby Duck! » Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:50 pm
XT is an upgrade from SLX.tcdev wrote:Taking a quick look at the XTC Advanced 29er 1, looks like a new paint job and a downgrading of the Shimano SLX parts to XT parts.
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby tcdev » Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:19 pm
Not that I know, but that's not what I take away from this forum post.Duck! wrote:XT is an upgrade from SLX.tcdev wrote:Taking a quick look at the XTC Advanced 29er 1, looks like a new paint job and a downgrading of the Shimano SLX parts to XT parts.
EDIT: On further inspection, it seems there's little difference except perhaps weight, and opinion seems divided on which is superior.
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Re: 2016 Range
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby rusty842 » Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:44 pm
This surprised me to. Waiting to see which disc bikes will go to thru axle to. I've not been able to see if this years defy is thoughGrgic wrote:Interesting that the Defy Advanced Pro 0 has Dura Ace and no Di2, and the Pro 1 has Ultegra and Di2.
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby Drizt » Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:31 pm
rusty842 wrote:This surprised me to. Waiting to see which disc bikes will go to thru axle to. I've not been able to see if this years defy is thoughGrgic wrote:Interesting that the Defy Advanced Pro 0 has Dura Ace and no Di2, and the Pro 1 has Ultegra and Di2.
Definitely still quick release.....
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby rusty842 » Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:34 pm
I couldn't see the pictures well but that makes me a little more happy about my defy advanced pro 0Drizt wrote:rusty842 wrote:This surprised me to. Waiting to see which disc bikes will go to thru axle to. I've not been able to see if this years defy is thoughGrgic wrote:Interesting that the Defy Advanced Pro 0 has Dura Ace and no Di2, and the Pro 1 has Ultegra and Di2.
Definitely still quick release.....
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby Drizt » Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:36 pm
Me too (wife's bike)rusty842 wrote:I couldn't see the pictures well but that makes me a little more happy about my defy advanced pro 0Drizt wrote:rusty842 wrote: This surprised me to. Waiting to see which disc bikes will go to thru axle to. I've not been able to see if this years defy is though
Definitely still quick release.....
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Re: 2016 Range
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Re: 2016 Range
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby Strydz » Thu Aug 06, 2015 6:55 am
The 2016 TCX SLR1 has an Alloy frame not carbon and still has rack mounts, the main difference I can see is paint job, mechanical instead of hydro disc brakes and swaps crankset to Shimano from FSAgsxrboy wrote:A bit of jiggling with equipment downspeccing it seems. The Tcx SLR1 from 2015 now has a carbon frame as Adv Pro2 (as such loosing the rack and fender ability) and downgrades the brakes and brifters to hit the price point. The old ally SLR2 has gone up in price while not increasing specpotatos, some have gone down too.
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby gsxrboy » Thu Aug 06, 2015 7:07 am
Maybe I didn't explain or you read it right but that's what I said. There were two models in ally, now one with lower spec. The prev top ally (price point) is now carbon but again lowered spec.Strydz wrote:
The 2016 TCX SLR1 has an Alloy frame not carbon and still has rack mounts, the main difference I can see is paint job, mechanical instead of hydro disc brakes and swaps crankset to Shimano from FSA
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby Duck! » Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:39 pm
They're not the same bike.gsxrboy wrote: The prev top ally (price point) is now carbon but again lowered spec.
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Re: 2016 Range
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Re: 2016 Range
Postby Duck! » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:34 pm
Thanks to Carrots for digging the image out. . The black is the new frame, the red marks the old one.Duck! wrote:One of the media releases a few weeks ago (Cycling Tips Blog maybe, not 100% sure) had an overlay of new vs old geometry, which really showed the slimmer tube profiles of the new frame.
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