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Ares said:
How much and what size if you don't mind me asking?
Mrs Ares is looking for a bike (ok, I am looking for a bike to get her on it...), but at 4'9 its going to need a very small frame. A Pinarello 42cm should fit.
She's 5'2. I've been looking for around 3 months before the right thing came up, but its a 48cm frame, her cube is 47cm (she runs a 90mm stem) and I paid £465 for the bike without wheels. Its a tad scruffy in places but we don't mind that so much as its there to be ridden. All other bikes in that size on ebay - Trek Lexa / Cube axial etc run sora groupsets and are often nearly £400 by the time you've added a courier or fuel to go and collect it.Mrs Ares is looking for a bike (ok, I am looking for a bike to get her on it...), but at 4'9 its going to need a very small frame. A Pinarello 42cm should fit.
Tri_Doc said:
Ares said:
How much and what size if you don't mind me asking?
Mrs Ares is looking for a bike (ok, I am looking for a bike to get her on it...), but at 4'9 its going to need a very small frame. A Pinarello 42cm should fit.
She's 5'2. I've been looking for around 3 months before the right thing came up, but its a 48cm frame, her cube is 47cm (she runs a 90mm stem) and I paid £465 for the bike without wheels. Its a tad scruffy in places but we don't mind that so much as its there to be ridden. All other bikes in that size on ebay - Trek Lexa / Cube axial etc run sora groupsets and are often nearly £400 by the time you've added a courier or fuel to go and collect it.Mrs Ares is looking for a bike (ok, I am looking for a bike to get her on it...), but at 4'9 its going to need a very small frame. A Pinarello 42cm should fit.
Tri_Doc said:
She's 5'2. I've been looking for around 3 months before the right thing came up, but its a 48cm frame, her cube is 47cm (she runs a 90mm stem) and I paid £465 for the bike without wheels. Its a tad scruffy in places but we don't mind that so much as its there to be ridden. All other bikes in that size on ebay - Trek Lexa / Cube axial etc run sora groupsets and are often nearly £400 by the time you've added a courier or fuel to go and collect it.
My oh is a similar height, it puts them at the top end of xs and bottom end of small. I was also looking at xs for her initially, but local bike shop said it is better to go the bottom end of the next size if in-between, so we ended up getting her a small instead.
Eddh said:
Saw you ride at Newport too, when do you usually go? Might have been there at the same time without knowing it!
I'm selling this at the moment:
Hi, try and ride Newport about once a month, although I live in Norfolk, my son is at Cardiff Uni, so go to the Drop-In sessions,I'm selling this at the moment:
normally Tuesday lunchtime, or early-bird Wednesdays, do you know Brian Pilot ?
whirlybird said:
Hi, try and ride Newport about once a month, although I live in Norfolk, my son is at Cardiff Uni, so go to the Drop-In sessions,
normally Tuesday lunchtime, or early-bird Wednesdays, do you know Brian Pilot ?
I don't but then I haven't been riding long.normally Tuesday lunchtime, or early-bird Wednesdays, do you know Brian Pilot ?
I tend to do Jason's sessions (PDQ) - he is a great coach!
Got my winter bike (almost) completed last week ... very fortunate as I blew my freehub up on my Zuus training wheels and didn't fancy riding decent wheels last weekend as the weather was pretty wet on Saturday. I say almost complete as the mudguards haven't been mounted yet .... but I rode 90 miles on Saturday with the bike having not turned a wheel in preparation and the bike was faultless and silent!
Its running Ultegra mechnical with hydro disc brakes and Hunt 4season wheels with the new Pirelli 4 season tyres in 28mm which seem like a great combo. First experience of a disc equiped road bike .... for winter at least, its the way forward. Have been burning through a set of rims every winter here as the roads are pretty s
tty and we do plenty of descending which takes its toll.
Its running Ultegra mechnical with hydro disc brakes and Hunt 4season wheels with the new Pirelli 4 season tyres in 28mm which seem like a great combo. First experience of a disc equiped road bike .... for winter at least, its the way forward. Have been burning through a set of rims every winter here as the roads are pretty s
tty and we do plenty of descending which takes its toll. This will be mine very soon...............
https://www.merida-bikes.com/en_gb/bikes/mountain-...
It's just BOAHHEAWWWAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.merida-bikes.com/en_gb/bikes/mountain-...
It's just BOAHHEAWWWAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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