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What sort of bike does everyone here ride?

regards,
sr

Guest

Mines nothing special, its a 3 year old cannondale R900, it has an 8 speed ultegra groupset and mavic wheels. I've rode it twice in the last 5 months (damn work  > )

It did only cost me abit over $700 when new  ;D Bargain of the century hey!!!

Vo2

Bianchi Reparto Corse with Carbon fork, Campy Mirage 9 spd Groupie, NHT Rims and Selle Italia seat. Bike's a dream!


...mine is just yellow and blue and a different colour seat.

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Thats a damn nice bike Vo2 *

Are you happy with the Campy Mirage groupset?

I've found the shimano stuff to be pretty crap, if your doing 5-600km a week dont expect shimano leavers to last anymore than a few months, both dura-ace cranks ended up with big cracks in them. *> *My hubs make strange noises and dont spin very smooth. I'd never buy shimano again, mind you i've only ever owned the 8sp version.

whatever happened to sachs (spelling?) several years ago i meet some guys from belgium who used sachs gear. apparently it was almost as good as record but alot cheaper.

Cheers!

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This is my bike its a norco blast, shimano 105 group set, utegra crank and um thats about it , i like it
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 8)

Vo2

Hey, thanks admin . I'm very happy with the bike overall. The groupset is super slick and quiet. I downloaded the groupset tuning instructions from the Bianchi website, and tuned them myself until I was absolutely 100% happy with the shifting. Although the Mirage groupset is not top of the Campy range, not even close, it definitely does not lack in quality.
I have always been a Shimano fan, but since I started shifting a Campy, there's no way I'm looking back!

I take more care of my bike than I take care of my car! *;D

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Vo2

Hey Nicholas, that's not a bad looking bike you got there, buddy!
What secret potion you got in those bottles, eh?  ;D

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Campy rocks! no question   ;D

I've got a horror Norco story that happened about 3 years ago.

later!

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LOL @ secret potion  ;D

Vo2

BTW, what bikes do the Ausies favour in general? Here in deepest, darkest South Africa the fun-riding crowds like the Trek 1000 and 1200, Omega's and Giant's. Schwinn is also starting to gain some rides.

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Bikes i see people riding alot of would include

• giant
• cannondale
• trek
• colnago
• norco
• de rosa
• wheeler

Theres probably more but i cant think of them now *

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Hmm Admin ??? whats this horror noroc story??

Guest

Just because it happened to me doesnt mean it will happen to you *

I had 5 warranty claims in about 7-8 months. The frames just kept breaking, funny thing was it was it was always in a different place.

Once where the chain stay joins the bottom bracket
A few times on the rear drop outs, where they join the chain stay and also where the join the seat stay.
I think one also cracked when the down tube joins the head set.

Mind you we have very rough roads and I was about 74-75kg so that probably didnt help matters.

Apart from that it was as nice to ride as my Cannondale *

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Giant CFR1 here, its old, has a carbon fibre frame and beats driving the car to work