CT Bike Stores Please Read This

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Morning Guys

 

A male colleague of mine is looking for a road bike to do the Argus on and has asked me to recommend a bike, and then find him a good deal. He's a social level "weekend warrior" mountain biker and has done the Argus a couple of times on his mountain bike.

 

I really don't have a time to check all the websites, call all the stores, negotiate backwards and forwards, make sure that the bike is available immediately, so I decided to put it out to "tender"

 

Budget 8 -10K

Size - Medium

Spec - Shimano 105 or equivalent

10 speed, compact crank 50/34, 12 to 27 cassette

Wheels - Mavic Aksium or Shimano equivalent (strength is more important than outright weight)

Colour - White or Black or Red (No Pink or Yellow or Green)

 

 

Prefer brand New but if its "used but as new" he'd consider (less than 1000km).

 

He wants to buy it before the weekend so it must be immediately available.

 

If you have something suitable please PM before 3pm today and I'll review the offers and forward him the best 2 deals.

 

Thanks

Edited February 8, 2012 by Eraser

[ThRoTTLeS-WP]

i have a silverback for sale, immaculate new conditition. search for silverback detroit in the classifieds.

[Niner]

i have a silverback for sale, immaculate new conditition. search for silverback detroit in the classifieds.

Sound to me like to OP want you to PM him, and not do any searching?

[ThRoTTLeS-WP]

here is the link, also PM sent..

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/classifieds/19944-silverback-detroit-fcarbon-roadbike-dura-ace-7900/

[Shebeen]

wow, wonder which bikestores will bite on this. i think it's a bit dangerous to shop on price only. it's not a pound of butter you're buying but a bicycle. Would recommend you rather send him to a decent store you trust with lots of stock and take it from there.

 

here is the link, also PM sent..

 

http://www.thehubsa....-dura-ace-7900/

nice bike, but it's a large and double his budget.

[Hairy]

OP .. please PM me your email as I have a good LBS or two who might want to "tender" on this

[ibruegge]

wow, wonder which bikestores will bite on this. i think it's a bit dangerous to shop on price only. it's not a pound of butter you're buying but a bicycle. Would recommend you rather send him to a decent store you trust with lots of stock and take it from there.

 

 

nice bike, but it's a large and double his budget.

 

maybe he wants to drop his asking price even further :-)

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Thanks for responding guys.

 

As an experienced cyclist myself the first thing I did was recommend that he go into a few of his nearby LBS, chat with the guys on floor, take a look at the bikes and get a feel for what he likes etc. but he really doesn't have the time either (we're both up to our eyeballs doing new fin year budget setting, meetings etc.)

 

There's really no catch here, if you have a bike thats similar to the spec requested, thats immediately available, pm me and I'll consider, narrow his choices down and give him what I think are the best options.

Edited February 8, 2012 by Eraser

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No takers then...?

[Tankman]

No takers then...?

 

Would love to help but the budget is pretty much restricted to Tiagra components. Don't know of a R10k bike with 105 on ... R11.5 then we can start making a plan (new bikes only)

[MTB_Roadie]

Would love to help but the budget is pretty much restricted to Tiagra components. Don't know of a R10k bike with 105 on ... R11.5 then we can start making a plan (new bikes only)

 

Yea considering the new 105 groupset already goes for around R5700....I doubt you will find a bike within that price range new....

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_{Thanks Tankman and MTB_Roadie, appreciate the comments}

 

_{One of our fellow hubbers came to the rescue and it looks like we found a bike with a mix of 105/Tiagra within the budget}

 

_{Thanks everyone}

Edited February 9, 2012 by Eraser