I want a road bike commuter, Sorry, it's a What Bike thread.

[Sebastian Tombs]

Collective PH wisdom,

I'd like to replace my 2016 Trek Allant 7.4, because, well basically, I absolutely hate it. It's too heavy, and it somehow manages to be both twitchy and ponderous at the same time. And it has horrible fat tyres, 2 chainrings I will never use and geometry that causes me discomfort no matter how I adjust it.

What I do like about it is that it has room for mudguards and excellent hydraulic disc brakes.

My other commuter is completely the other way - a 2008 Cinelli Vigorelli fixed gear with flat bars. I absolutely love riding this bike, but it's no good for every day because hills and old-man-knees.

So what I think i want is a road-oriented bike that feels like the Vigorelli to ride, but has hydraulic discs and 1x10 or 1x11 gears. Flat bars would be a bonus. And I want to spend less (quite a bit less) than 2 grand. I'll build it if you can recommend the kit, but if there's a good OTP one then great.

Any recommendations?

[Croutons]

Toppy

https://www.evanscycles.com/bmc-alpenchallenge-01-...

Obvs Evans risk but 150 off with a skip bike, and models down the rung are available.

Less toppy

https://www.cyclesolutions.co.uk/852/products/meri...

[louiebaby]

Croutons said:

Toppy

https://www.evanscycles.com/bmc-alpenchallenge-01-...

Similar, but cheaper:

https://www.evanscycles.com/pinnacle-lithium-alfin...

I have one of these, now with 32c Gatorskins, full guards and a rack. (Curly bars, but still meeting some criteria, sort of.)

https://www.evanscycles.com/pinnacle-arkose-alfine...

[Barchettaman]

https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXLDNFLATAPEX1/pla...

This could work, particularly if you can swap over the hydraulic brakes from your Trek.

In fact, could you not just get a 'racier' frame and swap over everything from the Allant with a singlespeed narrow/wide chainring...? By the sound of things it's pretty lightly-used.

Best of luck whatever you decide.

[Sebastian Tombs]

Thanks all. Excellent suggestsions.

I've thought about buying a frame and building something. It's definitely a possibility.

I hadn't considered Alfine hubs - that is a good shout.
I had a Nexux 7 hub once and I didn't think it was all that good, but I always liked a Sturmey Archer.

Those BMCs look nice. I see that for 2k there's an 11 speed carbon fork variant which looks tempting.

[Ilovejapcrap]

Yesterday i picked up a CUBE SL ROAD SL

https://www.cube.eu/en/2019/bikes/road/road-cycloc...

They also do a SL ROAD PRO, SL ROAD RACE etc, different parts and price. Anyway I like it a lot

[Ilovejapcrap]

pic of mine the 2019 version is 2 shades of grey

[Sebastian Tombs]

I went and had a look at an Alpinechallenge 01 ONE at the weekend while I was in Paris. I think it will be my next bike when the UK gets some more stock and I get a cyclescheme voucher. No idea why it's not in any Evans shops until then...