KOGA RoadRacer Ultegra

[phil_hg_uk]

Does anyone have any experience of KOGA RoadRacer Ultegra I was at Cyclesense in tadcaster today picking up some bits and bobs and the conversation came round to upgrading from my 2010 Specialized Secteur Elite to a carbon bike next year and I mentioned that I saw that they sold the cube bikes, but they recommended the KOGA RoadRacer Ultegra at £1500 so I wondered if anyone knew about these as it seems like a nice spec bike for the money.

Style: Racing bike for semi-professional use with outstanding features. The full carbon frame offers extra ordinary stiffness.
Frame: Lightweight FEA-optimised carbon frame made from HighTech carbon fibres and finished with UD carbon fibre mesh. Equipped with integrated headset and replaceable derailleur hanger.
Rear Derailleur: Shimano Ultegra
Front Derailleur: Shimano Ultegra
Chainset: FSA Gossamer Triple MegaExo 50x39x30T
Chain: Shimano Ultegra
Freewheel/Cassette: Shimano Ultegra 10 speed
Headset: Ritchey Zero Pro Road Drop industrial bearing
Stem: Pro PLT
Handlebars: Pro PLT Oversized
Front Brake: Koga
Rear Brake: Koga
Rims: Koga 2piRace1700
Tyres: Vredestein Fortezza Tri Comp 23mm
Saddle: San Marco Ponza Power
Seatpost: Pro XLT ø31,6x3000mm alloy

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Wow that popular huh

 

[Hovis26]

Wow that popular huh

Got one of these from cycle sense. The guys push them there as they're a dealer for them. That said.

Great bike. Really good and comfortable riding position. Good kit but have upgraded wheels and brakes on mine. Great value and unique look as hardly any out there

 

[youngoldbloke]

Just a thought - doesn't ' KOGA RoadRacer Ultegra' lead you believe that it would have a full Ultegra groupset? - including brakes and chainset? Not the only brand to do this, bit naughty IMO.

 

[Herzog]

Just a thought - doesn't ' KOGA RoadRacer Ultegra' lead you believe that it would have a full Ultegra groupset? - including brakes and chainset? Not the only brand to do this, bit naughty IMO.

Like the Bianchi Sempre Ultegra (with a load of cheaper FSA stuff chucked on).

 

[Rob3rt]

It is common to skimp on the brakes. With regards to the crankset, it is increasingly common to see 3rd party cranksets complete the bike build, since Shimano got on the press fit game late after BB30 started taking off, so many frames with BB30 bottom bracket shells come with other cranksets from outside of the groupset, unless you buy SRAM (and maybe Campag, not sure on this). Not sure if this is a BB30 frame and chainset, but even if it isn't it doesn't surprise me much. The Ultegra chainset is ugly as sin anyway.

Looks fairly standard to me. Would have been better with Ultegra brakes on it though.

 

[Hovis26]

Agree with you Rob.

Ultegra crank ugly. Fsa gossamer is slick and quiet and looks ok

Koga brakes on it were pretty flimsy I've fitted ultegras.

 

[dan_bo]

Just a thought - doesn't ' KOGA RoadRacer Ultegra' lead you believe that it would have a full Ultegra groupset? - including brakes and chainset? Not the only brand to do this, bit naughty IMO.

Especially as one of the three Ultegra items is thier piss-poor chain.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I have a (CX) Gossamer chainset on my Giant and it works well and looks gorgeous. The Ultegra chainsets are seriously ugly things imo.

Very nice looking bike btw.