I looked at the track in the sale and even getting my single speed frame at a very reasonable price and recycling many other parts it was only slightly cheaper than buying the revolution bike and only slightly better quality.
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Thinking about a ne bike...
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Posted 12 years ago #
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You can't buy unique.
Well, you can, really. But it involves gunmen and it's unethical.
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The Cycle two work scheme has been changed slightly to take account of the reduced tax benefit. The compamy now charge a minimal rental on the bike at the end of the first year so that you keep the bike for 3 years from when you take the scheme out so residuals are negligable. But also think on, C2W only applies to brand new full price bikes. There are some savings off 2011 bikes right now.
Do you really need a top price low weight groupset though? The minimal saving in weight appears far out weighed by the cost you appear to be willing to pay for the new parts.
Does no one recall that Dr who bought a £50 bike to go with his Carbon bike. He cycled for a year to work deciding on which bike to take by flipping a coin. The result was no difference in his commute time.
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"Does no one recall that Dr who bought a £50 bike to go with his Carbon bike"
No
Sounds interesting.
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I think he submitted it to some medical mag? though it was a year ago. His conclusion was that the weight of the rider has more of an affect than the bike.
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I vaguely remember that. Not sure if he controlled fr how much effort he input.
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If I was a bodyguard I'd throw myself in front of Instography in dramatic fashion to save him from reading that article. I read it and would have resulting knuckle scars and wall dents if I wasn't so middle class.
It was one of those studies where personal opinions outweigh the error bars of the variable being tested. By about a bajillionty.
The author, in my highly biased view, had decided before starting the experiment that a full-carb beast was worse than a retro-wank steel for commuting, and then timed himself on each type of bike.
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It was submitted to the April 1st issue though (or equivalent) IIRC.
CycleScheme does now seem like a fussy way to get an interest free loan on a bike. Having said that, the government are allowing you to take out interest free loans on bikes!*
* as ever, caveats apply. In fact CycleScheme bikes cost 10% more than the cash price, so you're getting a 10% loan but potentially paying it back over 5yrs if you take the uber extended rental, which is better than any commercial loan you can imagine.
It only seems pants because in the olden days, you really did save 17.5% VAT and 22% basic rate (or whatever it was) and keep the bike at the end for a 50p fee...
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Do you really need a top price low weight groupset though? The minimal saving in weight appears far out weighed by the cost you appear to be willing to pay for the new parts.
"No! The Cervelo was a bit of a mid life crisis buy! The 'I'm now middle aged and have some disposable income' kind of buy. Instead of the convertible I bought a shiny custom built carbon thing which cost admittedly far too much. Cycling is a hobby too though, and folks spend far more on golf and other things than I do on cycling!
Originally when I bought it I thought 'It cost a fortune, I'm going to squeeze every last penny out of it and get my monies worth', which is why it has been commuting to work come sunshine or snow for the last 3 years. Other than last year which did cost a lot (new groupset and wheels and seatpost), maintaining it although a pain hasn't been overly expensive, service, new chain and cassette every 4 months ~£240 a year + the usual tyres and stuff.
However, one thing that does really annoy me about it, is the fact it won't take mudguards - strange, once upon a time I was of the opinion mudgaurds were for woosies.
So I thought the Dolan looked like a good robust mid priced commuter, and it has SRAM and Look components/pedals, cheaper versions of what's on the Cervelo so used to them already, and shoes will work on both. It also has mudgaurds, and components probably half the price to replace than what's on the Cervelo.There will never be another purchase like the Cervelo though, that is a one off!
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