Flat bar road bike

[SpokeyDokey]

Here are the photos:

That's rather nice!

 

[Elms]

Here's a link to the Giant website about the spec http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-gb/bikes/model/fcr.2/2431/32467/#overview

This is a really nice lightweight flat bar road bike, in immaculate condition apart from a small paint chip on the downtube just under the bottle holder - this happened in my garage when a gardening tool fell over and glanced the bike. I have often thought about keeping this bike for myself but I really cannot justify it, it's a nice bike that deserves a lot of use.

It has covered no more than 300 miles in total, you can see on the odometer (which I have since removed) that it shows 265 miles and I used it last year for a couple of rides while my own bike was off the road for a repair.

PM me if you want any further detail or to discuss a price.

Thank you for these photos. Yes I would like to discuss further details. Sorry forgive my ignorance; what does the acronym PM stand for? how should we progress this?

 

[Spinney]

PM = personal message.
Click on your user name in the blue bar (top right), then on the left you will see 'Start a new conversation'

 

[Elms]

PM = personal message.
Click on your user name in the blue bar (top right), then on the left you will see 'Start a new conversation'

Ah thanks a lot...

 

[puffinbilly]

What constitutes a flat bar road bike in most people's opinion? Is say gearing of 12-26 and crank 50-36 a road bike or a hybrid - just asking since bought son a second hand Carrera Gryphon and he described it as a flat bar road bike to a mate who took great delight in telling him it was not. I would have just said it was a hybrid with road bike gearing.

 

[vickster]

28mm tyres or narrower, slicks not knobblies, 700c wheels, frame that's also used by the company for the roadbikes, rigid fork preferably carbon, 10kg or less preferably, V brakes rather than discs most likely (although there are disc brakes Sirrus models and they are flabar roadbike)

I don't think the gearing has an impact, well not for me, it's not like there's a standard gearing for road bikes

 

[HLaB]

Adding to the above, I'd clarify the brakes slightly, the Giant Rapid has excellent side pull caliper brakes and I think the Boardman flat bar road bike has discs, v brakes were most common on flat bar road bikes but they are not limited that

The frame is more important than the gears but I think gearing wise, a flat bar road bike will have a big ring of 50t or more (48t with 11 at the back at smallest) rather than the more compact mtb gearing.

 

[Broadside]

@Elms here are the latest photos of the bike for your information...

 

[jowwy]

Put flat bars on a giant defy roadbike and you will get a giant rapid - as both frames are the same and the gearing is also the same

 

[Kies]

Put flat bars on a giant defy roadbike and you will get a giant rapid - as both frames are the same and the gearing is also the same

Yes absolutely correct. I was looking at my Defy 1 up against my friends rapid 2. Same bike different bars