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would a 10 kg aluminium CX bike be considered heavy?
Seemed reasonable, biggest difference is the wheel that add up the overall weight.
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would a 10 kg aluminium CX bike be considered heavy?
Yeah, definitely. As Bikesnob has remarked several times in the last couple of weeks, for occasional messing about the entry level these days is £5k carbon CX bikes.
When I were a lad, world champions rode CX bikes in the vicinity of 26lb, and if you put Štybar and Nys on them now, there would still only be about 3 people in the world who would fancy their chances on any modern bike. CX is probably the cycling discipline which most favours the rider over the equipment.
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How long is a piece of string?
Or more precisely; would a 10 kg aluminium CX bike be considered heavy? And too shit for an occasional mucking about with some studded tires?
I am looking at my local 2nd hand listings and noticing a massive price gap between alu cx and carbon cx. The alu ones seem to come from people discarding their first cx bike and realising they can't ask much for it. The Merida ones tends to go for ~£500.