Mehran
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Post by Mehran on Jul 29, 2014 11:08:55 GMT
I have been toying with the idea of sorting out/upgrading this Asda Reflex bike: being digging around the interwebbs and found this microSHIFT Centos Groupset for the USA. With import tax it comes to £106ish. now from a review at road.cc its a pretty good group set aimed about 105 level. was just wondering worth getting? also is it worth bothering with this frame at all? it was £125 in Asda. but everything is cheap on it and a bit crap so I would need to change the wheels ,groupset and crankset.
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Post by r0b1et on Jul 29, 2014 11:28:03 GMT
And handlebars... what's with that shape?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 11:45:57 GMT
Personally I would just ebay it to get what you can and put the proceeds towards a better bike rather than plough money into that.
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Post by chappers on Jul 29, 2014 11:53:41 GMT
I mean this in the very best sense but I'd save your money if I were you. The bike you have there is fine for what it is - a supermarket bike. I'd leave it as that. I'm not saying the triban range is a world beater but they are decent bikes for the initial outlay and can be improved (as I and many on here have) to create a better bike to make it a low-mid range type bike.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 12:37:46 GMT
another point of view, it's not your main bike so you could convert it into a single speed fixie with minimum effort an handlebar (it's own is really awfull), a fixed gear flip-flop (you could also take off the brakes and the entire gear shift) really-really funny to ride, a very gooood training and cool too ;-) edit: you can revers his own handelbar and cut it to do your bullhorn
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Post by acd1055 on Jul 29, 2014 18:56:46 GMT
I mean this in the very best sense but I'd save your money if I were you. The bike you have there is fine for what it is - a supermarket bike. I'd leave it as that. I'm not saying the triban range is a world beater but they are decent bikes for the initial outlay and can be improved (as I and many on here have) to create a better bike to make it a low-mid range type bike. I don't agree. If the frame is ok and he spends £200 on the group set and some r501 wheels his total spend is only about £350 for what will be a good bike. Most on here have changed the groupset and wheels on there T3 so I'm not sure why its ok to throw money to upgrade a £300 bike and not a £125 bike. IF the frame is ok. If nothing else it would be a good winter bike with a set of mud guards.
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Post by chappers on Jul 30, 2014 8:10:06 GMT
IF the frame is ok - key point there. But who knows other than the owner how good it is. My point I was trying to get across was a standard btwin for £350 or however much they cost now (how much was being said as a spend on upgrades) is just fine as it is standard and you get a new bike out of it. Then if you feel the need you can upgrade the thing to make it into whatever you wish.
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Post by ChrisD on Jul 30, 2014 8:45:56 GMT
another point of view, it's not your main bike so you could convert it into a single speed fixie with minimum effort an handlebar (it's own is really awfull), a fixed gear flip-flop (you could also take off the brakes and the entire gear shift) really-really funny to ride, a very gooood training and cool too ;-) edit: you can revers his own handelbar and cut it to do your bullhorn marco or anyone: what's with the cards in the spokes here?
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Post by andsaw on Jul 30, 2014 9:48:31 GMT
And handlebars... what's with that shape? I thought that, it looks like the ends have been chopped off, never seen any like that.
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Post by chas on Jul 30, 2014 12:21:53 GMT
I'd say sell it as it is and put the money towards something else, you could throw a lot of money at it and still end up with a rubbish bike (or just use it as is for pub/shop runs) You can't easily convert it to a fixie as it has vertical dropouts. The bars are just an old shape rotated in the stem.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 12:25:52 GMT
anyone: what's with the cards in the spokes here? First alleycats (competitions on fixie bikes) were done simulating the bike messenger work, so you had to bring something in the city from a point to another, sometimes the jury give you a card as the receipt of your delivery and sometimes competitors without bags and pockets put them in the spokes... so nowadays every fixie poser use to put a card in the spokes... I hope to have been understandable in my bad english
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Post by Mehran on Jul 30, 2014 12:58:19 GMT
ok, so the bike is nugget.... I rotated up the handle bars a bit to make it a bit more easy to use...thought they were ok... the thing is I want/plan to get r501 wheels for my 500se. which means I will have a pair of btwin wheels which may not be great but better then the ones on the asda bike. so that leaves me with just the group set... a 10sp groupset for £106 must be good value no? and then a cheap but lighter crank set. if I can get a good/Ok second bike it will mean I can get family to ride with me. Would learn loads about how to put a bike together.
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Post by acd1055 on Jul 30, 2014 14:11:25 GMT
ok, so the bike is repugnant.... I rotated up the handle bars a bit to make it a bit more easy to use...thought they were ok... the thing is I want/plan to get r501 wheels for my 500se. which means I will have a pair of btwin wheels which may not be great but better then the ones on the asda bike. so that leaves me with just the group set... a 10sp groupset for £106 must be good value no? and then a cheap but lighter crank set. if I can get a good/Ok second bike it will mean I can get family to ride with me. Would learn loads about how to put a bike together. I say for £106 do it.
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Post by chas on Jul 30, 2014 14:31:50 GMT
If you could do it for £106 maybe, but I doubt you'll get them delivered for that, then you'll need a new chain, cassette, probably cables, chainset..... The first thing I'd upgrade (if anything) would be the brakes.
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Post by ChrisD on Jul 30, 2014 17:06:21 GMT
ok, so the bike is repugnant.... ... if I can get a good/Ok second bike it will mean I can get family to ride with me. Would learn loads about how to put a bike together.I'd go as far as to say that, no bike is repugnant, though I know you know that. Those last two points are worth a heck of a lot IMHO.
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