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ShannonG
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 Posted: 04/21/05 - 15:30 Post subject: road bike shifters
I just got a Trek 1000 and I love it. But......
It is an entry level bike and I am intending to do upgrades as I can afford to. It already has an aluminum frame and carbon front fork, so I'm happy with that.
My question is, would you invest in a new wheelset or new shifters first? It shifts OK (Sora front and Tiagra rear) except when I'm cross chaining which I know I'm not supposed to do but sue me. Or something else?
This is looking six months or so down the road. I have to finish paying for the bike first! Brakes are great, I'm happy with them.
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marathonrnr262
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Posted: 04/21/05 - 15:37 Post subject:
Don't bother to upgrade it. Ride it until your ready for another, then seel it and get a better bike overall. The Trek 1000 is a very good fuirst bike and the resale on it is usually pretty good. (I sold Lucy's for 400 on e-bay.) By the time you spend all the money on upgrades, you could have bought a new bike.
Keep it clean and take care of it and you will get many happy miles from it.
Just my $0.02
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Posted: 04/22/05 - 09:54 Post subject:
| marathonrnr262 wrote: | Don't bother to upgrade it. Ride it until your ready for another, then seel it and get a better bike overall. The Trek 1000 is a very good fuirst bike and the resale on it is usually pretty good. (I sold Lucy's for 400 on e-bay.) By the time you spend all the money on upgrades, you could have bought a new bike.
Keep it clean and take care of it and you will get many happy miles from it.
Just my $0.02
Sheldon |
Upgrades are not very cost effective. It is like car repair, a car would be several hundread thousand dollars if you upgraded it piece by piece.
If it fits keep riding. Get tune ups and put money aside for the next bike. 
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Posted: 04/22/05 - 10:07 Post subject:
I've got to agree with TriBob and Sheldon unless you want to take the approach that I did with my Trek 1000.
I upgraded the WHOLE bike except the frame/fork and when I felt like I needed a new frame, I bought a frame and moved all the upgraded parts to the new frame/fork. If you don't feel confident doing your own wrenching, then this option probably won't work for you.
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ShannonG
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Posted: 04/22/05 - 10:29 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | I've got to agree with TriBob and Sheldon unless you want to take the approach that I did with my Trek 1000.
I upgraded the WHOLE bike except the frame/fork and when I felt like I needed a new frame, I bought a frame and moved all the upgraded parts to the new frame/fork. If you don't feel confident doing your own wrenching, then this option probably won't work for you. |
See, this is sort of the approach I was taking. The chances of me having a couple of thousand $$$$ around to buy a toy in the next few years are slim to none. However, I can find a few hundred bucks here and there to make improvements on the bike I currently have.
Thanks for the opinions and info though!
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Posted: 04/22/05 - 10:43 Post subject:
First upgrade is pedals and shoes, no?
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Posted: 04/22/05 - 11:43 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | First upgrade is pedals and shoes, no? |
Sigh....yes, although I am the world's biggest idiot when it comes to clipless.
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Posted: 04/25/05 - 11:23 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: |
Sigh....yes, although I am the world's biggest idiot when it comes to clipless. |
A story about clipless...
Lucy, my wife, was new with her clipless. She was doing great and we rode about 50 miles. She would unclip way early and be very nervous in intersections, but she made it.
We decided to stop at a bathroom. The road we ride on is sandwhiched betwen what we cal the intercoastal and the ocean. (The intercoastal is a lrage body of water that runs parallel to the ocean for shipping and stuff.) Anyway. The bathroom was on the intercoastal side.
On the opposite side of the bathroom is a dock. The bathroom is open on right through to the docks. i cruise in and jump off my bike. I'm walking into the bathroom and I hear her call out for me. Sh1t, I go running around the side of the building, she's not there. I run to the other side of the building, she's not there.
Now I'm thinging she couldn't unclip and went right out theback over the docks. I go flying out the back and there she is sitting on the ground with a little, and I mean little scratch on her knee.
She unclipped with her left foot and tried to put her right foot down and fell over.
I thought she was fish bait.
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Posted: 04/25/05 - 11:39 Post subject:
| marathonrnr262 wrote: |
A story about clipless...
Lucy, my wife, was new with her clipless. She was doing great and we rode about 50 miles. She would unclip way early and be very nervous in intersections, but she made it.
We decided to stop at a bathroom. The road we ride on is sandwhiched betwen what we cal the intercoastal and the ocean. (The intercoastal is a lrage body of water that runs parallel to the ocean for shipping and stuff.) Anyway. The bathroom was on the intercoastal side.
On the opposite side of the bathroom is a dock. The bathroom is open on right through to the docks. i cruise in and jump off my bike. I'm walking into the bathroom and I hear her call out for me. Sh1t, I go running around the side of the building, she's not there. I run to the other side of the building, she's not there.
Now I'm thinging she couldn't unclip and went right out theback over the docks. I go flying out the back and there she is sitting on the ground with a little, and I mean little scratch on her knee.
She unclipped with her left foot and tried to put her right foot down and fell over.
I thought she was fish bait.
Sheldon |
I had clipless on my mountain bike and was black and blue for over a year. I have sciatica in one hip now, partly I think due to crashing on it so many times. I'm a little worried that with clipless on this bike even one fall will re-aggravate it and that will be the end of biking/running/swimming for a really long time again.
I have the baskets (no straps) and pedals on my bike for now, and every time I come to a stop I think "Oh thank goodness no clipless."
I'm. not. ready.
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Posted: 04/25/05 - 13:00 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: |
I had clipless on my mountain bike and was black and blue for over a year. I have sciatica in one hip now, partly I think due to crashing on it so many times. I'm a little worried that with clipless on this bike even one fall will re-aggravate it and that will be the end of biking/running/swimming for a really long time again.
I have the baskets (no straps) and pedals on my bike for now, and every time I come to a stop I think "Oh thank goodness no clipless."
I'm. not. ready. |
If you still have your mountain bike with clipless, go practice in a grassy field. It won't hurt if you fall over, and you can get good at clipping out before you ride on the roads.
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Posted: 04/25/05 - 14:13 Post subject:
I like clipless a million times better than those cage things, but I'm like Lucy where I unclip about 15 minutes before the possibility of unclipping might come up. I've never had a clip accident.
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Posted: 04/28/05 - 17:34 Post subject:
I've fallen over a couple of times, including the time the Doberman decided my front wheel would make a great playmate. Pretty comical, actually.
I'd say crashing on a mountain bike in clipless is a bit different than on a road. Usually I'm not moving, just coming to a stop, then it's OVER I go and land on hip and shoulder. Really not as bad as I thought it would be.
Since I went to Speedplay pedals and cleats it's been a lot easier, both in and out.
But definately wouldn't trade clipless for anything else.
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