To buy a road cycle

[Venkataraghavan Srinivasan]

Hi

I am looking to buy a good road cycle to bike on the roads of Bangalore, to work and to other places.

Please help me pick out a good cycle that I can buy in a store in Bangalore. I don't want to buy online. And I'm not interested in mountain bikes.

Suggestions, tips on what features I should look out for, brand names, etc.

Thanks
Venkat
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[Sudhir P]

what budget?

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[Venkataraghavan]

As of now, I believe there's a firefox at 23K and another one at about
35K. I don't think I would like to look above the 35K and even that is
stretching it quite a bit.

The problem is, I don't know what features to look for, which ones are
important and cannot be compromised upon in a road cycle. Once I have
an idea of that, I'll be able to have a clearer idea of bikes and
budgets.

Venkat

[Ravi Ranjan]

Also have a look at the LA-S road ike cost is 22K

~ Ravi

 

[sriram sriram]

call on 9886697151

regards,

Sriram

 

On 7/16/08, Ravi Ranjan <raviranj...@gmail.com> wrote:

Also have a look at the LA-S road ike cost is 22K

~ Ravi
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[Ashish Sharma (Pocha)]

Hi Venkat,
You may like to checkout LA Sovereign roadbike. You could get it
for like 20k or so. Try RR cycle mart at ulsoor/madiwala. We saw it
at the indo-thai exhibition at kaanteerva stadium last weekend.

Ashish

[FORTGATES GMAIL]

Why not try a Strida? www.strida.com

It's 22K plus VAT, and you get it BlueDarted to your place.

[venkat]

Hello Ashish,
No man i dont want to deal with many brands. Deficult for me too.
And most of the bikes i import from Taiwan or Italy. As u know
Thailand is not papular for Bicycles. ( Only tires , Tubes, Tubulars &
clohing is good in Thailand).
Call me for detail.
MERIDA Road bikes will be in Bangalore by end of this month.
Thanks
Venkat

On Jul 17, 1:17 pm, "FORTGATES GMAIL" <fortga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not try a Strida?www.strida.com

> It's 22K plus VAT, and you get it BlueDarted to your place.
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[Ashish Sharma (Pocha)]

Hey Venki,
I was suggesting the other Venkat (venkat raghavan) regarding the
LA roadbike :).

Ashish

[venkat]

ha ha ok ok.
Any how i am getting MERIDA 880-16, 901-18 And 904 -com. All this will
be in Bangalore by end of the month.
Ashish what about U ???
Still; looking for bike ???
Thanks
Venkatesh

On Jul 17, 6:32 pm, "Ashish Sharma (Pocha)" <pocha.sha...@gmail.com>

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[Ashish Sharma (Pocha)]

Ya Venki .. my search continues ..
heard you no more getting K4 & another equivalent model. Is Merida
not manufacturing them anymore ? or are they out of stock ?

I am confused between MTB & roadbike .. want to do MTB himachal,
but dont want to miss on tour de nilgiri thing as well :(. Budget
constraints are always there.

Lets see what i can work out with.

Ashish

[Rushi Bhatt]

Heheh. You picked up the wrong phone, Venkat.

I'll take this opportunity to be shameless (and be shamelessly "fair
and balanced", heheh) and say that in no particular order,

A. Merida 901-18 is a very neat bike.
B. Trek 1000 (now 1.2) is a very neat bike.

Both these statements are from very thorough personal experience. Ravi
can comment on the 880.

And now to be shameless: I'm not sure why anyone would buy a firefox
bike (for 35k) when the above two options are available for roughly
that price. I think 880 is much cheaper. Especially given all the
sales/support horror stories about firefox outlets. I'm not talking
about you, Rohan :)

Rushi

[Rohan Kini]

thank you Rushi :)  Appreciate the clarification :)

yeah .. dont even step into Firefox Road bike territory :)

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[Ravi Ranjan]

Merida 880 is neat bike too, and can be considered value for Money.

I have not seen any flaw with this as yet :-)

~ Ravi

 

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[Shivakumar Arunachalam]

Try Merida MTB, i own K6 too, u get them ard 12- 13 k starting pric

 

 > > #181 , 2nd main road. Chamarajpet. Bangalore 560018. Ph: 98440 20861,
> > > 93412 32940. email : venkatsp...@yahoo.co.in

 

The bike is amazing, the frames give u lot of comfort, the seats can be varied wrt handle bar almost 3 inches (gives lot of comfort for ur body frame)

 

Road bikes(the race bikes, as they are known :)  )  are v costly, starting from 25k, fire fox ; merida road bikes are costing 40k.

 

[Ravi Ranjan]

I would like to correct, The cheapest one of merida Road bikes will cast lil lesser than 30K I guess ... Venkat .. am i right?

~ Ravi

 

[Shivakumar Arunachalam]

Well then i was lucky to get one K6 for 12k :). From venkat ofcourse

[Ravi Ranjan]

Yes, but that is not a road bike :-)