I was actually looking at that.
Got really good reviews. I don't understand the levels of kit any more. Last time I paid any serious attention to road mechs etc it was becuase they were half the price of off-road stuff so I used to run durace mechd rather than XT on my mountain bike.

I'm sure it was Durace-Ultegra-105 (decreasing in quality) back in the day, Campag Record for the uberponce, but I don't see anything I recognise now. And all cheap frames are aluminium and I fucking hate the way aluminium rides.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 10:18, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I bought one of these
www.decathlon.co.uk/triban-3-red-road-bike-id_8274036.html

to leave in my in laws house in France. It's a great bike for occasional rides, it's got carbon forks,and for £300 that's a real bargain. The only thing I wasn't uber keen on was the shifters, which are the little click switches, rather than the whole brake shifter moving, but you get used to it.

I think it's got 105 chain rings, but a sram cassette, or possibly the other way round, frankly I don't care that much.

Aluminium on a road bike is a good thing, though I understand it's bad for mountain bikes, but as I've never mountain biked, I don't know, and neither do I care.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 10:23, Reply)

Yeah, I was in the shop looking at it yesterday.
It does look nice. And I know I've got little choice about the aluminium, and I understand why roadies like it. I just don't.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 10:47, Reply)

Get yourself a Condor Fratello
STEEL IS REEL etc.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 10:23, Reply)