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AHAHAHA!! Will do mate, I also have a friend who just bought A very nice Merida On road bike.

He lives in northbridge in some nice apartments.

Hows about i tee up a northbridge to Freo ride once a get these new badboy wheels fitted and we can chill in freo check out the muppets in their cars on the strip then ride back? nice long ride but a good one :-)

Gang,

I bit the bullet and went for the mod, i no longer have a skyline to mod so i have to mod something.

I ordered some MAVIC AKSIUM with 28' Gatorskin tyres.

My ride to work is 18 kms which on my MTB used to take me 54 minutes on avg. I bought the flat bar road bike and the time is now averaging 45 mins. Massive difference, really its approx 15% time saving just by swapping over a bike. If it makes that much difference, i wonder if the better wheels and tyres will make a big difference. Would be nice to crack the 40min mark.

Anyone know how much a local bike shop should charge to change my wheels over? no way i am good enough yet to change the cassettes etc on to the new rear wheel.

As excited as i am I have already started to eye off my next bike, i recon i will go with the Scott Speedster S20FB. I have only had my bike for 4 weeks so will let it crack at least the 12 month mark, take these nice wheels off and whack em on the new bike :-)

The bike bug certainly has hit me big time, in Perth 3 weeks ago the freeway was shut for the annual freeway bike hike. Did 30km in an hour 15mins on the mountain bike, I am going to the 60km one next year all things going well!

could be anywhere from free to about $30. at work we charge $10 to change a tyre/tube per wheel off the bike (few dollars more if they are on the bike). cassette is pretty simply to change, you just need 2 tools to get it off, 1 to get it back on. but seriously, the shop should do it for free if you ask nicely, especially since you are spending a few hundred on wheels.

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prolly like riding now eh? i envy you, seriously.. do you get to cycle to work too???

but roadbikes aren't really my thing..

work is about 65kms away, so no, i don't ride to work.

did 46kms today, 650m of elevation gain, average of about 24kmh and it was fooking windy. on the flat where i normally sit on between 35 and 40kmh i was only sitting on about 27kmh.

hoping to get a new bike when i get my tax back. going to get a carbon road bike (only got an alloy one now). good thing about where i'm working now is that i get to ride plenty of high end bikes, and i've been able to see just how shit some of the high end stuff is, and how good some of the high end stuff is. i have also found how good some of the cheaper stuff is, etc. there are quite a few major brands that i used to think were ok but now would touch.

hoping to get a new bike when i get my tax back. going to get a carbon road bike (only got an alloy one now). good thing about where i'm working now is that i get to ride plenty of high end bikes, and i've been able to see just how shit some of the high end stuff is, and how good some of the high end stuff is. i have also found how good some of the cheaper stuff is, etc. there are quite a few major brands that i used to think were ok but now would touch.

Any options so far?

This is the time to buy, a mate of mine just picked up a full carbon team bike with the Tour De France special. Its running dirty Ultegra gear but I wont hold that against him :D

Any options so far?

This is the time to buy, a mate of mine just picked up a full carbon team bike with the Tour De France special. Its running dirty Ultegra gear but I wont hold that against him :D

lol, in all seriousness though, the amount of problems i've seen with the latest dura-ace, i wouldn't go any higher than ultegra in the shimano range (i'd still go a SRAM red bike, but wouldn't touch campagnolo).

i'm looking at a gary fisher cronus (although it's really just a trek). it's only 105 (which i've got now and am more than happy with as it's just ultegra without the wank factor). we had a demo one at work and i took it for a ride and it's nice and stiff (that's what she said). it's also pretty light (just over 8kg). retails at $3000. i've ridden a few other carbon frame road bikes lately and some of them are too flexy.

dan, that site has some pretty cheap prices. very few will be matched by your local bike shop because they are just above cost. while that is good for the customer, it hurts the bike industry more than it does good because 1: it hurts the local shops who actually have customer service , 2: makes the local shops look bad in the eyes of the customers because there are online shops selling stuff cheap because they can do it as an after hours business from some obscure place with bugger all overheads, while the shops have to pay big rents from prime locations, pay enough staff to provide good service as well as do repairs, etc. some of the online shops also have physical shops as well, and they are hurting themselves at the same time. some suppliers are also cutting off supply to certain online stores because they are coming to the realisation that the future of the bike industry isn't with online stores selling at bugger all profit. they are also slowly realising the same about chain stores (such as 99 bikes and gold cross). but that is a debate for another thread.

dan, that site has some pretty cheap prices. very few will be matched by your local bike shop because they are just above cost. while that is good for the customer, it hurts the bike industry more than it does good because 1: it hurts the local shops who actually have customer service , 2: makes the local shops look bad in the eyes of the customers because there are online shops selling stuff cheap because they can do it as an after hours business from some obscure place with bugger all overheads, while the shops have to pay big rents from prime locations, pay enough staff to provide good service as well as do repairs, etc. some of the online shops also have physical shops as well, and they are hurting themselves at the same time. some suppliers are also cutting off supply to certain online stores because they are coming to the realisation that the future of the bike industry isn't with online stores selling at bugger all profit. they are also slowly realising the same about chain stores (such as 99 bikes and gold cross). but that is a debate for another thread.

mate I work in retail. I know how it is.

We're expected to buy iPhones in at $836 and sell them at $859.

The only winner is the customer. Until the retail outlets close and now one has any where to take their products to get fixed.

But yes another thread :)

loving the weight of that thing???

my buddy has one... sun mammoth rims, hadley hubs, and monster T, bloody tank.. weights half of how much i weigh.

nah its built pretty light. comes in around 12 kilo i think

dan, that site has some pretty cheap prices. very few will be matched by your local bike shop because they are just above cost. while that is good for the customer, it hurts the bike industry more than it does good because 1: it hurts the local shops who actually have customer service , 2: makes the local shops look bad in the eyes of the customers because there are online shops selling stuff cheap because they can do it as an after hours business from some obscure place with bugger all overheads, while the shops have to pay big rents from prime locations, pay enough staff to provide good service as well as do repairs, etc. some of the online shops also have physical shops as well, and they are hurting themselves at the same time. some suppliers are also cutting off supply to certain online stores because they are coming to the realisation that the future of the bike industry isn't with online stores selling at bugger all profit. they are also slowly realising the same about chain stores (such as 99 bikes and gold cross). but that is a debate for another thread.

You sound like Mr Harvey lol

I know what your saying about shop fronts needing to make some money, but when i can go interstate and buy my bike, plus get a weekend away for the price the Sydney store is selling it, then there is something wrong.

I was looking at an XTC 29er at one stage..... $1600 in VIC, closest i could get in Sydney was $2100. I was happy to pay $2100 but a weekend away in Melbourne, plus the bike was very appealing

Do a comparison on bike shops from different states and you will be quite surprised at the differences. Several bike shops in Sydney wanted to charge me $4400 for a full XX setup, i got it from a QLD bike store through bike exchange for $2200 shipped.

I have been in retail and i have seen the effects of the internet when someone wont open their eyes and move with the times. I have also seen the effect of the internet when someone does and there is no reason a savvy business person could not compete with these online stores.

its just unfortunate that a lot of retail businesses are stuck in a rutt and cant take a chance with off loading some stuff cheap to make a name. People need to rely on large profit margins to stay alive these days, whereas you will find a lot of these online stores sell in bulk for a small profit. Sure they dont have that many over heads, but if your selling in massive ammounts you are going to make massive dollars if your smart

You sound like Mr Harvey lol

I know what your saying about shop fronts needing to make some money, but when i can go interstate and buy my bike, plus get a weekend away for the price the Sydney store is selling it, then there is something wrong.

I was looking at an XTC 29er at one stage..... $1600 in VIC, closest i could get in Sydney was $2100. I was happy to pay $2100 but a weekend away in Melbourne, plus the bike was very appealing

Do a comparison on bike shops from different states and you will be quite surprised at the differences. Several bike shops in Sydney wanted to charge me $4400 for a full XX setup, i got it from a QLD bike store through bike exchange for $2200 shipped.

I have been in retail and i have seen the effects of the internet when someone wont open their eyes and move with the times. I have also seen the effect of the internet when someone does and there is no reason a savvy business person could not compete with these online stores.

its just unfortunate that a lot of retail businesses are stuck in a rutt and cant take a chance with off loading some stuff cheap to make a name. People need to rely on large profit margins to stay alive these days, whereas you will find a lot of these online stores sell in bulk for a small profit. Sure they dont have that many over heads, but if your selling in massive ammounts you are going to make massive dollars if your smart

working on general bike shop profits, if you drop your prices by 20% you have to DOUBLE the sales to make the same profit. that is based on overall profits though. some stuff if you dropped the price by 20% you'd have to sell much more again as the profit margin is only about 25%.

as for going interstate for a bike, it isn't an interstate thing, it is simply an individual bike shop thing. some bike shops, especially at this time of the year will start specialling out stock to make way for the new stock which starts coming out soon. the suppliers also do this so some shops will buy at this time of the year to then sell cheap.

anywho, one of the guys got his new bike today. it's one of these...

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