Cycleops
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- Accra, Ghana
Aren’t we allIf you're a potential Racer, then you need the best equipment you can afford.
I'm an old bloke, pootling around Cheshire, so it's not needed.
Aren’t we allIf you're a potential Racer, then you need the best equipment you can afford.
I'm an old bloke, pootling around Cheshire, so it's not needed.
It's usually cheaper to get the groupset though. And you know it plays nicely together.
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Not always true. There is a former chatter who used to ride an old road frame with a 97" or so fixed gear. He achieved a 23minute 10 on this steed.If you're a potential Racer, then you need the best equipment you can afford.
I recently upgraded my Dura ace groupset to Tiagra. My friend said "hey that's not an upgrade, that's a downgrade". I told him "Tiagra lasts longer, isn't that an upgrade?"
He said "no, the Dura ace costs more money so that is an upgrade". I told him "how about one day the marketing people swap the prices around and tell everyone that Tiagra lasts longer so it's more expensive. Would you then consider it an upgrade?"
He said I better go to one of those cycling forums and confuse everyone with my thoughts.
Not always true. There is a former chatter who used to ride an old road frame with a 97" or so fixed gear. He achieved a 23minute 10 on this steed.
He told me he came into a bit of money and bought himself a decent TT bike, but couldn't get near the time of his old steel fixed bike.
I'm constantly amazed at how many people don't know how to use this function or that it even exists.learned about the trim function on that front mech shifter
Wanna betI'm not a racer, but if you are I would think the last thing you need is to get suckered into thinking that you need the latest and best equipment or that you can somehow buy speed.
This is one of the so many threads that have appeared over the years along the lines of "Why do people buy a more expensive bike than the one I've got?"
So bleedin' what? Their money, their choice.