Road bike recommendations

The cannondale had a Nice looking fit, and was realistically the best bike on the shortlist (the no part time tri bike shortlist). It was also on offer as a frameset all over the Place. But quite why Cannondale ignored electrical shifting is beyond me. Yes, they do an electric version. But you need to buy the whole bike, as the frameset isnt to be found, and believe me, I tried.

Most of the Complete bike quotes I recieved for other brands were sans crankset, and Wheels (as I have a power2max, and Nice Wheels). But dealers arent allowed to sell the cannondale crankset separately. So its yet another bit I need to pay for and hope to sell. Such a faff cannondale.

Then buy one and start faffing!

S6 is such a great bike - even with my back playing up, I love mine to death.

Wait wut? I thought their frames were made for both electrical and mechanical .. CAAD10 is ..

I've seen folks drilling their SuperSix evo frames for Di2. Warranty? Who needs it.

In other news, I picked up an unused SISL2 chainset complete with all fittings, axle and alu cup PFBB + 53/39 spiderring for £300 yesterday. #boastpost #WAC

@howard the one on ebay? was hoping to eventually get that when funds allowed

If the frame came from Ebay sans warranty. It'd be dremel time. But no way I'd do a new one.

another option is to run budget Sram till the wireless groupset comes out. Keep it for the recall period of the wire less (gonna happen). Then eventually hsve funky wiresless shifting.

Yah was on ebay, kept on failing to make the reserve, so I bought it direct. Offered me an amazing deal, even dropped it into town from Bucks. Amazing. Lovely chap, too. Felt bad, should have given him the petrol money at least, wasn't thinking straight at the time.

Why not just buy a complete of the di2 ready supersix, move all your tarty bits on to it and sell what you don't need? Sure you're credit card will take a bigger hit, but you'll make back the additional spend once you balance the books.

stack of midget stacks

Interesting, pretty sure the Propel ends up taller than the Naz on the larger sizes.

It'd quite like a propel. The stack and 1 1/4" stem make it a non-starter I think. And (most importantly) the paint is not too nice. Bikes are tools etc but but use the wrong typeface and... I'm out. #tart

@smallfurry what ruled out aerorad cf slx? Availability?

I cant really use the credit card at the moment. Not for that sort of thing at least. High Peak Cycles were really helpful, and made me a fair offer on a 2015 Hi-mod With Di2. But I needed consider getting the bike to Norway, and selling the bits I dont want at as Close to RRP as possible, while taking a slight hit for postage. Plus the Whole selling from outside the EU stress. Selling stuff within Norway is really slow for all but the most commonly bought parts.

It just couldnt be squessed into the Budget.

But once you get Down to a shortlist of 5 or 6 bikes. They are probably all great, and will do the job at hand brilliantly. So you might as well buy based on typeface.

Same reason as the S6. I would need make a bigger initial outlay, and to sell a lot of non postage friendly items to make it work.

The 6780 Di2 one I liked. Which is the one With the Integrated aero road bars. Was an amazing spec to be fair.

But the AR1 will end up costing the same (largely due to sneeking bits under the local customs radar), and I like it more.

Fuck... I was gonna go to Bucks and meet him! insanely good deal.

Though bb30 is starting to annoy me, mines creaking, thinking of going gxp and using a praxis bb

Remove and clean everything then loctite fixing compound new bearings.

But canyon sells frame only (?)

oh yeah, i forgot your cannondale guy :) which loctite is best? and does it really work long term? mine's developed a horrible creak going down on the drive side arm.

So you might as well buy based on typeface.

That rules the Felt out then. Awful.

The Felt logo is strong

Not when I was looking.

I checked. Even made enquiries into selling the Wheels, and crankset locally.

For complex reasons the 2015 AR1 was the best buy, as well as being my favourate (for immature looking like batmans bike reasons)

The felt logo is a short step away from Comic sans if you ask me. But theres only 3 on the Whole frame. So meh.

Yes - it can quieten down noisy frames, permanently. If not, frame warranty, because it's not to spec.

Before pulling the trigger on that, check everything else, seatpost, QRs, pedals etc. If you have a cheapy FSA crankset, you'll have cheapy FSA bearings, so invest in a nice set of bearings - the Token Tiramic bearings worked well for me in some hideous cyclocross conditions.

Loctite green (park suggest 609) fixing compound is the last resort.

Cheers, got force22 cranks so that's probably not the problem, they need mallet to go in so tolerances there are good, probably the frame-bearing rather than bearing-crankset interface. No frame waaranty due to 2nd hand :S

I do have a feeling the bearings could well be FSA, thanks for the reccomendations, will let you/forum know of results if i fail to get this gxp crankset on auction

Anything with rounded corners can GTFO.

Need a mallet to go in? That does not sound right.