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07-28-08, 02:03 PM
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bike build, build bike
Hello,
this is my first post but have been browsing for a while
. Ive been working as a courier for 7 months, and I think my fitness has improved enough to merit investing in a road bike with gears
. I want to assemble it myself, hopefully to save some cash, and so I can fix it when things go wrong. I have a budget of just over £400 (800$ ish).
I was thinking of buying this frameset:
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/M...?ModelID=26893
and kitting it out with the campagnolo xenon groupset, and buying the rest of the stuff on ebay. Does anyone have any experiance with brand-x frames? Is there any reason apart from weight, to upgrade the groupset.
cheers, rob
this is my first post but have been browsing for a while
. Ive been working as a courier for 7 months, and I think my fitness has improved enough to merit investing in a road bike with gears. I want to assemble it myself, hopefully to save some cash, and so I can fix it when things go wrong. I have a budget of just over £400 (800$ ish). I was thinking of buying this frameset:
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/M...?ModelID=26893
and kitting it out with the campagnolo xenon groupset, and buying the rest of the stuff on ebay. Does anyone have any experiance with brand-x frames? Is there any reason apart from weight, to upgrade the groupset.
cheers, rob
07-28-08, 02:58 PM
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Hello,
this is my first post but have been browsing for a while. Ive been working as a courier for 7 months, and I think my fitness has improved enough to merit investing in a road bike with gears. I want to assemble it myself, hopefully to save some cash, and so I can fix it when things go wrong. I have a budget of just over £400 (800$ ish).
I was thinking of buying this frameset:
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/M...?ModelID=26893
and kitting it out with the campagnolo xenon groupset, and buying the rest of the stuff on ebay. Does anyone have any experiance with brand-x frames? Is there any reason apart from weight, to upgrade the groupset.
cheers, rob
this is my first post but have been browsing for a while
. Ive been working as a courier for 7 months, and I think my fitness has improved enough to merit investing in a road bike with gears. I want to assemble it myself, hopefully to save some cash, and so I can fix it when things go wrong. I have a budget of just over £400 (800$ ish). I was thinking of buying this frameset:
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/M...?ModelID=26893
and kitting it out with the campagnolo xenon groupset, and buying the rest of the stuff on ebay. Does anyone have any experiance with brand-x frames? Is there any reason apart from weight, to upgrade the groupset.
cheers, rob
07-28-08, 03:18 PM
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The only bike that I have come across equipped with xenon parts is this:
https://www.evanscycles.com/products/...-bike-ec000026
coming in at £600. You can buy the complete xenon groupset for £180, is the cost of the groupset really such a small percentage of the overall bike cost? I assumed the reason for this was high markup.
thanks for your help
https://www.evanscycles.com/products/...-bike-ec000026
coming in at £600. You can buy the complete xenon groupset for £180, is the cost of the groupset really such a small percentage of the overall bike cost? I assumed the reason for this was high markup.
thanks for your help
