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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Quote Originally Posted by daz h View Post
    take it to your local bike shop for an estimate, its a fairly easy job to change it but always good to give the bike shop some work.

    it would be cheaper than changing bikes.
    if your thinking of getting a road bike you need to have a budget in mind
    whats you thinking of £
    Might be the best thing, I have no money for a new bike but a credit card thats screaming at me to buy a new bike

    I was looking at a nice full carbon frame one in Ambleside at the weekend, I think it was £1,300, I suppose I can dream, until I give in to the credit card!

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Quote Originally Posted by hopey View Post
    Might be the best thing, I have no money for a new bike but a credit card thats screaming at me to buy a new bike

    I was looking at a nice full carbon frame one in Ambleside at the weekend, I think it was £1,300, I suppose I can dream, until I give in to the credit card!
    get one on interest free hopey
    loads of deals at the minute. You will get a very good bike for that price .
    try evans, JE james, fatbirds etc etc

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Hopey, You can probably get away with just changing the chainrings rather than the whole crankset. But either way you'll probably need a new chain as the present one will probably be a bit short, and you might want to change the rear cassette, as the largest cogs will probably be too large to go with larger chain rings. Changing the cassette might offset needing a new chain. Everything will need adjusting after you've changed either of those bits.

    I've just gone from a road bike with a 53/39 front to one with a 50/34 and I much prefer it as I was struggling to maintain any pace on the uphills after I'd been out for more than a couple of hours.

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Just emailed the local bike shop and asked them to price it up for me.

    Cheers for all the info.

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Barter with them. You should get at least 10% off in accessories or 10% off price ...I managed to get 15% off the actual price of a 2008 bike at my local bike shop last week Hopey...

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Quote Originally Posted by moo View Post
    Barter with them. You should get at least 10% off in accessories or 10% off price ...I managed to get 15% off the actual price of a 2008 bike at my local bike shop last week Hopey...
    whatttttttttttttttttta bike you had ??????????????
    bianchi

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Quote Originally Posted by moo View Post
    Barter with them. You should get at least 10% off in accessories or 10% off price ...I managed to get 15% off the actual price of a 2008 bike at my local bike shop last week Hopey...
    I must stop, I've got a wedding to pay for. ha ha

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    get it bought hopey! It's a Trek Daz btw

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Quote Originally Posted by moo View Post
    get it bought hopey! It's a Trek Daz btw
    Yeah!! And flog your cross bike to me....

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    Re: Wanted: Road Bike

    Some places of employment i.e Fireservice, NHS, University have worked into this 'bike to work' scheme where you can a considerable discount on any bike you want.

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