Decathlon road 7.1

[Brendan Halpin]

Anyone know the Decathlon 7.1 road bike? Any possibility of fitting
mudguards to it? Carrier? It's the bottom of their range, and I'm
looking at it for our rising teen. Without mudguards it is just
sports equipment, not really usable.

I do see on their site (http://tinyurl.com/7urm2) that they note
the 7.3 can't mount guards or a carrier, but not stating the same
about the 7.1 is no guarantee that it can.

Brendan
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[John Hearns]

On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:36:14 +0100, Brendan Halpin wrote:

> Anyone know the Decathlon 7.1 road bike?

Can't help directly, but I live near a Decathlon.
I could call in and inspect an example, but that would be next week.
Why not just ring a Decathlon branch and ask to speak to the cycle
department manager?

 

[MartinM]

sks raceblades will fit anything, they seem quite effective (speaking
as someone who followed a pair of them through several puddles at the
weekend)

 

[Andrew]

> I do see on their site (http://tinyurl.com/7urm2) that they note
> the 7.3 can't mount guards or a carrier, but not stating the same
> about the 7.1 is no guarantee that it can.
>

They say not, (I was in the other day asking the same thing) but I'd be
surprised if you couldn't fit the SKS blades on.

I'd also suspect that with some bodging it would take a light rack.
Depends on your willingness to bodge (salesman was particularly
anti-bodge.)


Andrew

 

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:57:00 -0700, Andrew wrote:


> They say not, (I was in the other day asking the same thing) but I'd be
> surprised if you couldn't fit the SKS blades on.
>
> I'd also suspect that with some bodging it would take a light rack.
> Depends on your willingness to bodge (salesman was particularly
> anti-bodge.)

I bought one of the M-parts seat collars for my road bike.
Its a nice bit of kit. No bodging involved, and it costs around a
tenner. If you don't know it, it has two threaded holes for the rack top
mounts. You would still need two lower threaded holes on the dropouts.

Sadly my road bike no longer has the rack fitted - aluminium frame,
and the rack shook itself off every time. I know, should have used
a thread locking gunk on the bolts.
Now has a nice Altura pack which attaches to the seatpost.

 

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 25 May 2005 19:15:34 +0100, John Hearns wrote:

>
> I bought one of the M-parts seat collars for my road bike. Its a nice bit
> of kit. No bodging involved, and it costs around a tenner. If you don't
> know it, it has two threaded holes for the rack top mounts. You would
> still need two lower threaded holes on the dropouts.

I should say that my bike is a Claud Butler Roub

 

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 25 May 2005 19:15:34 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
>
> I bought one of the M-parts seat collars for my road bike. Its a nice bit
> of kit. No bodging involved, and it costs around a tenner. If you don't
> know it, it has two threaded holes for the rack top mounts. You would
> still need two lower threaded holes on the dropouts.
>
I should explain that my bike is a Claud Butler Roubaix.
It has two lower mounts for mudguards and rack, but no upper ones.
I guess a job lot of dropouts!
Hence the M-parts seat collar and I use SKS raceblades on it.
Similar price to the Decathlon, and a small size.
To be honest, I'm not that much in love with the bike.
I changed the saddle to a Specialized, and put bar phat tape on it
before it was rideable. Also I put a larger range rear block on it
recently.

 

[eatmorepies]

"Brendan Halpin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Anyone know the Decathlon 7.1 road bike? Any possibility of fitting
> mudguards to it? Carrier? It's the bottom of their range, and I'm
> looking at it for our rising teen. Without mudguards it is just
> sports equipment, not really usable.
>
> I do see on their site (http://tinyurl.com/7urm2) that they note
> the 7.3 can't mount guards or a carrier, but not stating the same
> about the 7.1 is no guarantee that it can.
>

I don't know that bike but I have a Dawes Giro 200 - very good for the
money. It's a flat bar version of their Giro 300. It's got a triple ring set
and I have fitted mudguards to it - using the holes supplied. I imagine you
could fit a carrier as well. They can be bought new well below £300.

John