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Most popular Bike Brands
Although none of us were that surprised by the news story this week about the top 3 bike brands for sportives it did get me thinking. Although there are loads of Spesh, Trek and Giant bikes out there (I just need to look at my employers bike sheds), of the people I cycle with at weekends or on the few sportives I have done, their bikes have been Canyon, Cannondale, Plant-X and only 1 Giant.
As I am a stats fan, would everyone be interested in doing our own survey and I'll pull together the results in a couple of weeks. And to make our survey EVEN MORE comprehensive than theirs :), how about we take into account the n+1 factor and list which brand of bike you use for the below 3 types of road riding, e.g. (my entry below)
Commute = Trek
Sportive = Colnago
Race = N/A
If there is no appetite for this or if only a few respond then I'll let this slowly disappear down the forum, however if we have a big enough sample size I'll collate the results in a few weeks and publish the results.
Cheers
Tim
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Weekend / fun Spesh Secteur (first road bike)
Late summer above to be replaced with a Rose / Canyon
Commute, Wednesday night chain gang, pulling kids trailer & weekend bike= Kinesis GF
Commute - Felt F95
Sportive - Felt AR5
Yup, I'm a fan of the Felt!
Winter = trek 1.5
Summer or dry winter days = planet X RT58
commute; giant
winter dawes
best days raleigh
Commute / Sportive: Rose Pro SL (only bike)
There's been a shake-up in my stable recently, so now I've got:
Best/fast bike: Open mould special
Vastly over-specced winter bike: Planet-X SL Pro Carbon
Bike to leave at the parents should the need arise: Trek 5400
Commuter 1: Neil Orrell steel beauty
Commuter 2: Random alloy single speed. It's yellow.
Commute (Winter) = Whyte Charing cross
Commute (Summer) = Genesis Equilibrium 853
Sportive = Pinarello FP2
Although I rode the Essex Spring Lamb on the Genesis
Commute / Fun: Charge Plug 3
Commute: Merida Cyclocross 4
Weekend/Fun: Dolan Tuono SL
Road- Specialized Allez
Off-road- Specialized Hardrock
Commute - Boardman CX
Winter - Boardman CX
Weekend/Fun - Boardman CX
I only have one bike. So massive N+1 feels for me.
Commute - Koga Miyata
Winter - Ribble
Summer - Onix
Giant SCR2= just one bike.
Commute: BSA Javelin bitsa fixie. Although that's currently off the road due to an errant chain ring! So, I'm back to my Raleigh Aero Max Pro singlespeed MTB-type thing (affectionately known as General Dog's Body)
Sunday Best: Planet-X Pro Carbon (doesn't get used as much as I'd like - families, eh?!)
Commute - Specialized
Winter - Bianchi
Race/Summer - Cannondale
Commute - Quella fixie
Winter/training - Cube
Race - Canyon CF SLX
commute- Ridgeback
Winter-Lynskey
Summer- Cyfac
Winter: Trek 1.5
Summer: Wilier Gran Turismo
Ghost Race Actinum 5000 - my do it all road/Commute/Sportive bike
no commuting for me, but:
MBR - GT
CX - Kinesis
Road Winter - Vitus
Road Summer - Ridley
TT - Ridley
Commute (and a little bit of CX training last year) = Ridley X-Bow
Weekend/Sportive = Ridley Orion
Commute; Giant defy
Sportive; Ribble sportive bianco
Race; Kawasaki
Commute - Felt Z95
Sportive - Boardman Pro Carbon SLR
Race - Boardman Pro Carbon SLR
Commute: Revolution Cross Pro
(Revolution is Edinburgh Bicycle's own brand)
Commute: Ribble Audax
Genesis Flyer
Sportive/Audax: Kinesis T2
Race: Ridley Cheetah TT
On Road - Giant
Off Road - Specialized
Dragging Kids - Dawes
Don't commute anymore although i used to use a Viner Gladius for that
Weekend/sportive - Ridley
TT/Tri - Look
No commuting for me, so;
Winter/ Wet day - Cube Attempt
Summer / Dry day - Cube Litening Super HPC Pro
and the Mrs....
Winter / Wet day - Spesh Secteur
Summer / Dry day - Planet X Pro Carbon
Winter: Trek 1.9
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Summer: Giant TCR Advanced 2
(I'm so common
Commute/pub: Marin
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