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Any suggestions on a Trek bike that offers fast speed?
Budget:4500
Budget:4500
Any suggestions on a Trek bike that offers fast speed?
Budget:4500
Every bike ever made will go as fast as you want it to if your legs can keep up.Any suggestions on a Trek bike that offers fast speed?
Budget:4500
Any suggestions on a Trek bike that offers fast speed?
Budget:4500
I'd keep double the bike cost to one side (and that's being conservative).Whatever you get, don't spend the lot on the bike, keep some to one side...
I'd keep double the bike cost to one side (and that's being conservative).
I've spent more on my bike in the last month than I have on food.
If I carry on at this rate, I will have spent more money in the last ten years than NASA has spent since the 1960's.
£30 for this, £20 for that, £85 for another bit and £65 for the part that goes next to it. Not to mention the special tools (that's another ton at least).
Saddle's obviously a personal thing, but does a £4.5k bike really have such a poor wheelset?Whatever you get, don't spend the lot on the bike, keep some to one side to upgrade the wheels/saddle as these will improve a good bike no end, personally I'd be looking at an Ultegra groupset tops, with a saddle that suits you, then get a good quality wheelset & tyres, plus think on that the stem may need changing to give a perfect fit too.
Something tells me you're exaggerating, upgrading or doing it wrong.
Or with that money, just get a frameset and build to your spec, far betterWhatever you get, don't spend the lot on the bike, keep some to one side to upgrade the wheels/saddle as these will improve a good bike no end, personally I'd be looking at an Ultegra groupset tops, with a saddle that suits you, then get a good quality wheelset & tyres, plus think on that the stem may need changing to give a perfect fit too.
It’s hardly a 4.5k machine. It would have been built on the cheap to start with. You would have been able to get or build a 4.5k bike even during lockdown, that’s about all that was available, but perhaps that wasn’t the market you were looking atIt's a five year old Halfords Apollo MTB and everything began to go wrong about a week after lockdown started.
Bottom bracket bearings, crankset, freewheel, chain, disc brake callipers, tyres, gear shifters, cables and wheel bearings all needed replacing with the bike having less than 500 miles under it's wheels.
Then there are the add ons like mud guards, rack, lights
It would have been cheaper to buy a new bike but nobody had any decent bikes left for sale.
On the plus side, the lumpy old steel framed MTB I used to loathe has become the new love of my life.