So I've only got one road bike right now - a Lynskey R340 that I bought two years ago, swapped the Ultegra 6700 group from old bike on to it as well. Enve 2.0 fork. It's a great, great bike, best I've ever ridden. I'm not going to race it though, because I don't want to destroy it.
I'm kind of fat now and getting back into riding a lot as I'm just finishing night school, and I do intend to start racing again once I'm skinny again. So I want to put together a budget bike that I won't cry when it inevitably gets rashed up in a race when the inevitable pile-up happens right in front of me.
I already bought a new Ultegra 6800 group which I'm going to swap onto my Lynskey next week after finals. So I've got a full Ultegra 6700 group to use for this backup bike, and a set of my old standby wheels - Ultegra hubs on Mavic Open Pros, 32 3 cross bomb proof cheap to repair.
SO, frame recommendations please. I have two absolute requirements: the frame MUST use a traditional threaded bottom bracket shell and it MUST take a traditional cupped headset - none of that integrated crap, I hate it. Had the integrated garbage on a Wilier I used to have and it creaked and popped constantly.
With all this said, I'm leaning toward a steel Gunnar Roadie. They're about $950 new. However, if any of you know of any aluminum or carbon frames around that price point I'm fine with that as well - I'm just having trouble finding any that don't have crap integrated headsets or crap press fit bottom brackets. And I don't want to get into a debate about those things either - in my experience they creak and pop and I don't like them, won't use them again.
I'm kind of fat now and getting back into riding a lot as I'm just finishing night school, and I do intend to start racing again once I'm skinny again. So I want to put together a budget bike that I won't cry when it inevitably gets rashed up in a race when the inevitable pile-up happens right in front of me.
I already bought a new Ultegra 6800 group which I'm going to swap onto my Lynskey next week after finals. So I've got a full Ultegra 6700 group to use for this backup bike, and a set of my old standby wheels - Ultegra hubs on Mavic Open Pros, 32 3 cross bomb proof cheap to repair.
SO, frame recommendations please. I have two absolute requirements: the frame MUST use a traditional threaded bottom bracket shell and it MUST take a traditional cupped headset - none of that integrated crap, I hate it. Had the integrated garbage on a Wilier I used to have and it creaked and popped constantly.
With all this said, I'm leaning toward a steel Gunnar Roadie. They're about $950 new. However, if any of you know of any aluminum or carbon frames around that price point I'm fine with that as well - I'm just having trouble finding any that don't have crap integrated headsets or crap press fit bottom brackets. And I don't want to get into a debate about those things either - in my experience they creak and pop and I don't like them, won't use them again.