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Bought £1700 Carbon Bike – Now scared to use it.

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  • September 11, 2018 at 9:35 pm #28938
    itaa

    Got a mint (except few stoneships) Scott solace 30 flat bar road bike, came up locally for a good price.
    I’m used to 15kg BSOs in past which I could trash & abuse ,leave barely locked for days and loan to other people without any worry.

    How do I even ride this thing? It rides so good & smooth that I do not want to damage it, I planed to use it for hardpac paths & crappy tarmac potholed roads and mount kerbs with it like I’m used  -stuff that doesn’t bother much the cheap crap hybrid/hardtail bikes.

    How fragile is carbon in real use? Can I even use it for such stuff?
    It has currently got 25mm schwalbe marathon plus tyres so pretty tough and with decent grip,but still.. the thing barely weighs nothing and is just a road bike with flat bar- But I have no desire to ride on tarmac along with cars!
    Am I going to mess it up If I start mounting kerbs with it (not at speed) ,dropping kerbs & going over small roots?
    have no idea how durable the carbon frames/forks are …

    -Would installing wider tyres with slightly more volume be a good idea to make it more ”durable”? ( I have no idea if 30mm would fit, maybe 28mm will)

    Also How do you even go to store and leave the bike outside? I’m not sure if I even trust the ”good u-locks” being an owner of cordless angle grinder myself. The previous owner kept it in armed garage locked up to wall..I’m used to keeping bikes just outside wherever there’s space.

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  • September 12, 2018 at 8:20 am #927025
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    PRSboy

    Watch ‘Road Bike Party’ on

    Watch ‘Road Bike Party’ on youtube-  Carbon road bikes can put up with a suprising amount of punishment!  And how about Paris-Roubaix…

    Riding up and down kerbs may put the wheels out of true in the end if you don’t handle the bike properly, but they can be adjusted back.

     

    September 12, 2018 at 2:40 am #927023
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    Anonymous

    Bikes of any kind are meant

    Bikes of any kind are meant to be ridden and ridden with gusto, there are plenty guys bigger than me who have ridden CF frames on 24/20 wheels and not given a fig about hypothetical outcomes.

    I’ve come down from my 107kg max but even then I rode a coke can thin Principia RS6 and Rex Pro, coming down roads at 40/45mph and hitting horrible ruts can shake you about a lot and yes sometimes you might bust a spoke if you’re unlucky (often rim just goes out a bit) but breaking the frame through normal use, that’d be pretty rare.

    The Scott frames are pretty robust, the HM frames are quite light for their type though the HMX version is even lighter/stiffer.

    ATEOTD, appreciate the ride, stop thinking too much about fragility but obviously when you put the bike somewhere don’t just throw it about like a £50 BSO, you want to preserve its looks, so think about locks and how you can prevent the frame from being cosmetically damaged because of silly things like that.

    Not sure Scott made a caliper/rim brake flat bar version but you should be able to fit 30mm tyres under a deep drop brake caliper easily, if it’s the disc version then wider tyres would be easy enough. 

    September 11, 2018 at 10:18 pm #927021
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    davel

    I gotta get me an armed

    I gotta get me an armed garage

    September 11, 2018 at 9:44 pm #927019
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    EddyBerckx

    Wow, you really didn’t think

    Wow, you really didn’t think this through did you? 

     

    No, don’t leave it locked up outside and don’t park it in the street unless you’re happy to get the paintwork and so on trashed (at least in London or any major city).

     

    As to the actual riding, carbon should be tough enough (most high end mountain bikes are carbon I think and they get abused plenty). Yeah you might wanna fit some wide tyres on it though, not sure what your bike will take.

     

    Else sell it and buy something more fit for purpose ie a mountain bike or similar if you’re never riding on the road?

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