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Best frameset around £1000

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  • June 2, 2015 at 9:41 pm #24144
    akelly524

    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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  • June 30, 2015 at 4:38 am #848543
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    Ungulate

    What about the Viner Mitus
    What about the Viner Mitus 0.6 from planet x?

    June 22, 2015 at 4:39 pm #848541
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    akelly524

    What about the Planet X
    What about the Planet X Nanolight?

    June 5, 2015 at 6:25 am #848539
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    twowheeltoys

    If you want a carbon frame
    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.

    June 4, 2015 at 10:09 pm #848537
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    2 Wheeled Idiot

    HalfWheeler wrote: Have heard

    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 =))
    There are plenty of good quality frames, the dirt cheap ones are dodgy but fm066,fm098 etc are all well renowned frames.

    June 4, 2015 at 7:09 pm #848535
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    HalfWheeler

    Be careful of cheap Chinese
    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.

    June 3, 2015 at 9:10 pm #848533
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    Gareth W-R

    Ribble have a Merckx emx 5
    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.

    June 3, 2015 at 11:42 am #848531
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    londoncommute

    Westbrooks are always worth
    Westbrooks are always worth keeping an eye on e.g.

    http://www.westbrookcycles.co.uk/eddy-merckx-emx-7-road-bike-frameset-black-white-2013-p282631

    June 3, 2015 at 11:21 am #848529
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    DrJDog

    Charles_Hunter

    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

    June 3, 2015 at 9:25 am #848527
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    2 Wheeled Idiot

    For racing the old adage is
    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.

    June 3, 2015 at 8:02 am #848525
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    Charles_Hunter

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

    But you might as well buy the whole bike

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