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"So these are some of the parts, any good?"
Acceptable for the money. The one you've found for £225 sounds a better deal than the well used, possibly bikelifed one in London for £120.
I'd be much more cautious about saying it's acceptable if you were paying RRP of £400 but at nearly half that price, assuming it's the right size for you and it's approximately the type of bike you're wanting I don't think you can go too badly wrong.
If you put the miles in then stuff will wear out faster than components on shiny expensive bikes do however at that point you can either upgrade the worn out components or upgrade the entire bike and sell the Crossfire 3 to some other unfit bike n00b.
There's not really much to say about Carrera bikes so that's why there's no one posting "OMFG amazingly brilliant bike, buy it right now before anyone else does" but there's also no one telling you that it's a fucking piece of shit. |
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Ste wrote: | "So these are some of the parts, any good?"
Acceptable for the money. The one you've found for £225 sounds a better deal than the well used, possibly bikelifed one in London for £120.
I'd be much more cautious about saying it's acceptable if you were paying RRP of £400 but at nearly half that price, assuming it's the right size for you and it's approximately the type of bike you're wanting I don't think you can go too badly wrong.
If you put the miles in then stuff will wear out faster than components on shiny expensive bikes do however at that point you can either upgrade the worn out components or upgrade the entire bike and sell the Crossfire 3 to some other unfit bike n00b.
There's not really much to say about Carrera bikes so that's why there's no one posting "OMFG amazingly brilliant bike, buy it right now before anyone else does" but there's also no one telling you that it's a fucking piece of shit. |
Oh yeah, I realise it's not a top end machine or even a middle class one for that matter.
Being the n00b, I just didn't know if the bits and pieces were ok or whether someone might recognise a duff component being palmed off as decent.
Quite surprised at the stopping power, I never thought the flimsy looking disc brakes would work in the way as rim jobs. |
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Have you not got a Decathlon nearby? The BTwin range is quite good, and reasonably priced. I have a Rockrider 5.0. ____________________ Mpd72: I can categorically say i’m Brighter than that, no matter how I come across on here.
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Just a quick vote of confidence here, I've been hammering a Halfords special Carrera Parva for 6 months inc through the winter and it's managing a daily commute about town quite well, granted only about 20 miles but in all weathers it's touching 140 miles a week for 'low end'.
For the money you can't really complain, way I see it if it lasts a year and cost £150 new it's a reasonable amount per month, can't get a contract phone on a comparative deal!
Still on all original parts, get's a wash once a fortnight and a WD40 once a week.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 255 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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