If fit is a concern, buy from Hadley's. Jock will at least vouch for the fact that the Hadley brothers know a thing or two about road bikes. As far as pedals go, most road bikes don't come with any, or they come with cheap ones. Choose your cleat style, then shop online. Don't expect Jock to share his love of learning to ride clipless though.

Hey Maxim

Clarence St are the importers of TREK and every thing that goes with it. Chances are they will have any size downstairs waiting to be built up or will get it in a flash. I don't think they stock much, if anything they don't import themselves.

I did buy a bike there, along time ago (my Friend was the main mechanic at the time). I got a Lemond, it was on sale and he got it heavily discounted for me. I got for the frame & fork and another friend wanted some of the bits, we did one of those friendly share it round deals.

Being as big as they are, I do belive they can have good sales.

$3-4k, get a custom Thylacine, that's a top dollar frameset.

If it were me, that's what I'd be getting, steel or ti custom from the Tiger man.

$3-4k for a frameset? Maybe Tiger can hook you up.

It's way past my bedtime here, so I'll have to leave it at that.

Hang on.....3-4k for a frame? Now ya talkin'!

1) Go get fitted by Kennedy or Beasley
2) Call me 8309 0005 straight after!

:beer: too easy

Im a member of peloton sports, so id try and get it throuh turramurra cyclery, i THINK they can get them in ( they used to be able to). I was fortunate when i got mine as it was ultegra/105, with no bontrager gear in sight (sans wheels), i felt that the year model i have (2004) was better equipped than the ones after, in reagards to quality of components.

Just to distract it from bike talk for a minute. My father is a huge boxing fan, has been since the 50's (he is in his early 70's). He knows the stats for the most obscure boxers from any country (esp eastern europe). He, like just about everybody can't stand Mundine, but thinks he may give it to Green tonight.

He went back to Croatia for the summer, left on Monday so I'll get a call asking what happend I'm sure.

I surley hope it doesn't happen, go Green.

I spent an hour or so test riding bikes today. All were Treks. A 1500, 2000 and a 5200.
It was awesome... like having a pit crew again - they'd whack the pedals on and set the seat height, I'd disappear fer 15 mins, come back, they'd quickly swap pedals and I'd be orf again on another bike.

I was worried that they'd all feel the same and that I wouldn't be able to pick one from the other but there was a surprising difference between the amalinoomum ones and the carbon. The 1500 and 2000 were very similar (I couldn't feel the difference between alu or carbon seatstays) Both very nice to ride, a bit twitchier than my Giant but I expected that.
The carbon ride was hard to describe, veeery smooth and although lighter than the other two, it felt at least twice as planted and secure.

I can do you a deal on an OCR1 if yer interested.:D

I tried to buy a bike from Cstreet, waved 6 grand cash in their face to cut me a deal, the guy said even if I was his brother the best he could do would be to take $100 off rrp if I took it there and then!
I'm guessin his brother was probably banging his missus.

Needless to say I bought elsewhere and will generally not buy from them as it's pot luck on service and deals.
FWIW, I was in there on Tuesday for a drool, soooo much nice stuff!

**** dead mate. How much money do you have to spend on the bike?
If its that much I would be off to a specialist joint like thylo's.


To me frame geometry and fork rake is more important than frame material.

i think its very close. i used to do full contact mixed martial arts and trained with people who have spared with green and all of them have said hes a great bloke. unfortunatley being a great bloke doesnt win you fights!

i pick green, in 6. tko. if it goes longer than that , then its more mundines fight. dont forget that Green was in LA last year sparring a guy 35 KG his senior ( and then current heaveyweight champ) and was still giving as good as he got.

its boxing who gives a ****. If I want to go see a fight I'll go down to the Ducks Nuts on a friday night. At least its free

Oh yeah, I bought my MTB & got my Lemond warranted thru Turra, average deals, friendly people. Crap at fixing the bent cranks on my wifes cheapo MTB. Replaced them on 4th return.
I guess a little bit of the if it aint a 10grand pina/opera not very interested...?
My LBS does Trek/Lemond/Giant, think they have a 05 tourmalet in stock... PM me if you want their number.

I'd go carbon for that money -- I don't reckon there's any point spending that much on steel or alu.

that shop at the top of Hampton St., just down from South Rd (a few doors down from Blockbuster), is selling some Cervelo and Look frame-sets for around $3000.

4k will get you a frame, fork and headset in anything but the most exotic construction methods

Steel? Yep.
Scandium? Yep.
Ti? Almost. F,F & HS about 4200.
953? Yep.

I agree with you Odin. I can't tell the difference between carbon seatstays and Aluminium ones, I think they're pretty much a waste of time. The best thing about them though is that they save about 100g, and you only have to do one weld instead of 6, plus you can charge more for doing less work! :D

hmm never really had a problem there myself... have at plenty of other places :: cough:: Blackmans :: cough :: got my cannondale there for much less than retail, and ironicly they are the only ppl ill take my bike to for servicing (things that im not game to touch myself like wheel truing and headsets...) . horses for courses eh?

It's all TOO FARKIN MUCH, especially for steel or aluminium!! :p

I even reckon I paid too much for the Cervelo frame-set ($1700), and that's made in Taiwan. My Columbus Zonal alu was $800, my 531 Raleigh was $529 (in 1992), and my Kennedy Taiwanese Dedacciai 7003 (Norco? :)), was $400, which goes faster that ALL the carbon I've ever seen on Beach Rd, or is that just my big arse making it go fast :p:D

As Thylo said, retail IS for suckers. If you don't 'know' anyone is the biz, just go for the bargains, or haggle the crap out of someone with cash.

that shop at the top of Hampton St., just down from South Rd (a few doors down from Blockbuster), is selling some Cervelo and Look frame-sets for around $3000.


what else?.......ummm.....oh yeah, ACR (cnr Toorak Rd and Burwood Hwy) have at least 25 De Rosa alu frames that they can't sell. They're going for reasonable prices, for De Rosas (eg, approx $1700 for a De Rosa Vision, and ~$1400 for a De Rosa Vega), but I still reckon that's too much.


Kennedy does custom alu Columbus Zonal frames for ~$1300

Damn, I coulda started a "Help me pull the trigger" thread? ;)

SWMBO let me buy the carbon one. $4700 down to $3000

http://www2.trekbikes.com/images/bik...anthracite.jpg

how old is it?

and.....I've forgotton: Ultegra or 'Dura-Aces'

2006
Ultegra 10
It's a coupla months old.

It's not very lairy - which I like, but damn it's slick to ride.

Dun look nice. So what happened? Too much drugs 'n' alcohol? Little old lady? Road rage?

oh, brand new (pretty much). Yeah, that's pretty good....for Carbon :).

A 10sp Ultegra group-set is $1200 at Cecil Walker (probably the cheapest, unless you're one of Thylo's mates :p), so, you're getting the frame, wheels, etc, etc for $1800. That's a good price for that frame.

http://www.cecilwalker.com.au/category283_1.htm

I'm just going to have to go in tomorrow with an iron will and a steely resolve and hope to either walk out with an aluminium bike I'm happy with, a steel one I'm really happy with or no bike at all - despite the discounting.

If I am not crowing about a new bike here tomorrow, I will PM you for that number, pshaw, and possibly try Turramurra too. The other place that seems to definitely stock Tourmalets is a store just opposite Woy Woy station, which wouldn't be a bad train trip.

I am not compelled to buy Lemond, but at the moment admire their looks more than others in the $1500-$2500 range, and figure that one of my main motivations to ride won't simply be having a well fitted bike, but one that looks good. I'm not expecting a 'realistic' ride on a trainer, but I figure at least that would make sure the fit is pretty okay, and I'm just not experienced enough with road biking to work out from trainer or test ride whether the bike will really suit me more than any other anyway...

If I wasn't shopping for a Lemond, they seem to have Trek F5Cs in my frame size up at the Woy Woy place for less than $2000, so that might be my next stop.

South Australian tourist, traffic lights, eating station wagon, teeth through lip, neck x-rays. All the usual fun and games. Very lucky not to do any serious damage to me :o

Maxim, don't go there! Badsac is still having nightmares about that place :)

Ouch. Sounds like it could turn out to be an expensive holiday for someone then Dave