Road bike recommendations

6800 Ultegra is just so nice! better looking than 9000DA imo

I like Ultegra for its functionality and price but the chainset is a pig.

Ribble now banging out Ti bikes and they look good value as you'd expect. Wonder who's making them.

PX Ti frames were Van Nicholas weren't they?

I was originally hoping to change out the chain set immediately to Rotor - but completely overlooked bottom bracket size differences

What's the deal with the Ultegra chain set?

Utegra chainset is good. Works just fine. No point changing.
Don't think it's ugly at all.

Full groupset is far nicer than odd parts.

Y no horizontal TT tho 😩😩😩

Compact geo makes more sense for their market I guess.

Because they only need to make 4 frame sizes rather than 12.

Yeah I guess, would look a nice frame with traditional geo IMHO

Market forces though etc etc

Garmin Vector S, UK RRP £749, Wiggle "Platinum price" £659.99, Rose Bikes price, delivered, £525.

Schnell!

Vectors though.... :-/

That was an example, it's cheap-street in Euro-land right now.

Yeah I just ordered a Giro Atmos for £60 from bike-discount - bragainz

Guess where my new mamil friendly cosmics came from

Bikeradar classifieds?

:P

I know it's a joke, but personally I wouldn't consider buying anything used and crabon from a stranger, beyond a seatpost.

especially a seat-post, @Howard, losing teeth is one thing, but castration by carbon is an eye-wateringly wince inducing proposition

I've bought a number of pairs of second hand carbon wheels, all have been fine.

Alloy wheels, on the other hand - lets just not go there.

It's all calculated risk isn't it.

Used handlebars from eBay is really pushing it.

Dunno, never considered that. I mean, I'm 60kg. I can't see myself breaking a post unless it was utterly messed up before I bought it, which would hopefully be self evident.

The crabon posts I've bought from LFGSS have been unused anyhoo. Or so the sellers said.

Every set of wheels I've bought have been used for "less than 500 miles", even the set that was a couple of years old...

OT, but everyone keeps banging on about the cheap Euro parts has anyone seen anywhere with a good deal on Specialized Romin saddle?

60 k-fucking-g!! buy all the wafer thin stuff you want..

Just not a fan of the way it looks. It's also now identical to Tiagra 4700 so well overdue an upgrade.

That said, I ride with one and no problems with the way it works. No point changing it unless you want power or elliptical rings.