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Best frameset around £1000

by akelly524
Tue, Jun 02, 2015 22:41
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I'm looking to build a race bike. Shimano 105, Fizik Arione etc. Any suggestions for a carbon frameset around £1000?

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Ungulate | 8 years ago
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What about the Viner Mitus 0.6 from planet x?

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akelly524 | 8 years ago
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What about the Planet X Nanolight?

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twowheeltoys | 8 years ago
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If you want a carbon frame with lifetime warranty the Genesis Zero is around a grand. Not knowing what level of racing you are hoping to compete at, the Radon Ignite aluminium bike is sub 7kg for the same sort of money, as it uses the latest Ultegra easy to swap chainrings not whole chainset like used to be the case. Not yet found a review of the frame, but the parts seem to cover the price anyway.

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HalfWheeler | 8 years ago
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Be careful of cheap Chinese carbon frames. Have heard that the carbon fibre content on some of these frames is less than 10%. Even if you find one on the cheap that's still a lot of money for essentially an epoxy resin frame.

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2 Wheeled Idiot replied to HalfWheeler | 8 years ago
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HalfWheeler wrote:

Have heard that the carbon fibre content on some of these frames is less than 10%.

Apparently 98% of statistics are made up on the spot 24
There are plenty of good quality frames, the dirt cheap ones are dodgy but fm066,fm098 etc are all well renowned frames.

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Gareth W-R | 8 years ago
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Ribble have a Merckx emx 5 for sale at £580. Just building mine up now. Considering these were £2700 frame sets a couple of years ago its a great bargain. Assuming they still have the size you need.

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londoncommute | 8 years ago
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Westbrooks are always worth keeping an eye on e.g.

http://www.westbrookcycles.co.uk/eddy-merckx-emx-7-road-bike-frameset-bl...

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2 Wheeled Idiot | 8 years ago
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For racing the old adage is never race more than you can afford to replace....in other words I would say get an aluminium frame (kinesis aithein) or a cheap chinese carbon frame.
Or just buy a full carbon or aluminiun bike from canyon or rose because that will be cheaper than building from scratch.

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Charles_Hunter | 8 years ago
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https://www.canyon.com/en/roadbikes/series/ultimate-cf-sl.html

But you might as well buy the whole bike

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DrJDog replied to Charles_Hunter | 8 years ago
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Charles_Hunter wrote:

https://www.canyon.com/en/roadbikes/series/ultimate-cf-sl.html

But you might as well buy the whole bike

You get a racing licence discount on the frameset, only CF SL discounted model is the 9.0 aero which is £2200

https://www.canyon.com/en/service/sponsoring.html

But I do agree that buying the whole bike from Canyon is probably the cheapest option.

Also recommend the Aithein, as someone else said, but the tubes are so so so thin I would worry about it being repairable.

Would also recommend the usual suspects, Canyon Ultimate AL SLX, or the CAAD10. If you could pick up a second hand Evo or Supersix, that would be a good bet, too

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