OK, so let me offer my views of the R265. I bought mine as my "dream" bike. I wanted something fast, comfortable, and durable for rides up to 100 miles or so. The buying experience itself was fabulous. The rep I worked with was great. I discussed my physical limitations, needs in a bike, etc as we worked through the process. I even sent then the dimensions of my paid bike fit so it could be translated to the right frame size and could build out the bike with the right size stems and such. I went with the upgraded CF fork and then they through in upgraded wheels for free when the ordered wheels went on backorder. They also upgraded the finish on the frame for free when I asked about a military discount. So the buy was great.
The ride was really good in my book. The bike was built out with an 11 speed Ultegra groupset and climbed really well. Now I weigh in the 180-190 range and sometimes over rough surfaces the bike felt like it was flexing more in the rear than I liked. Most of the times though the rear rode really nice, smooth. It also seemed to put my meager power to the rear wheels just fine and didn't seem to give up speed to any of my other bikes. The front CF fork helped with road buzz some but like every other C.F forked bike I have it was harsher than my classic steel rides with wonderful steel forks. Mind you I primarily ride rough chipseal. Now they said the front fork would fit 700 x 28 tires. It may if they are true to size but it sure wouldn't fit Continental GP 4000s II tires in 700 x 28. But to be honest we know those measure quite larger.
Quality wise I was impressed. Seemed to be a very nicely built bike. The only issue I had was with the upgraded Titanium seatpost. It was an Enve single bolt design for the saddle mount and kept coming loose. Enve said to use carbon fiber assembly grease on the internal parts to keep if from slipping. I wound up running a different seatpost instead so I can't say for certain if that would have fixed it. Keep in mind, that was an Enve issue not Lynskey.
So, it was a great bike, well priced, did everything well, etc. And yet for some reason I always picked on of my vintage steel bikes over it. I can't give a real reason why. After about a year of the bike hardly used I sold it locally. By now Lynskey was selling stuff through the discount sites so I took a BIG loss on this. No big deal though and this has nothing to do with how good of a bike it is. I would recommend one without hesitation.
This is a shot the first day after doing the minimum assembly required.
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