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Boardman Race aluminium road bike with carbon forks. This is almost as new condition, no signs of wear or use, just some slight scratches from storage.
Hardly used only covered about 20 miles as I have 2 other bikes and prefer my hybrid bike.
It is almost as new condition. No real marks or wear just some small marks from storage.
Collection onlyColours
Metallic Midnight Blue
Frame type
Rigid
Frame material
Aluminium Alloy
Gears
20 speed
Chainset type
Compact 50-34
Wheel size
700C
Rear DerailleurShifters
Shimano Sora
Brakeset
Tektro R358
Chainset
FSA Vero
Front Derailleur
Microshift
Cassette
SRAM PG 950
Wheels
Mavic CXP22
The down tube has an aero profile at the top, rounding out by the time it meets the bottom bracket. We’re not convinced this offers tangible performance benefits, but along with the super-smoothed welds it looks the part.
More significant is the aluminium tubing’s triple butting – the walls being thickest at the ends where strength matters and thinning towards the middle where fewer forces are at work. Strong and light, it contributes to an all-in weight that challenges bikes costing around a grand. Weight is further diminished with the carbon fork. A number of bikes around this price have carbon forks and aluminium steerers, but this is the cheapest we’ve tested with an all-carbon fork. It’s also unusual to see an internally routed rear brake cable at this price, even if this is more of an aesthetic than a performance benefit.
‘sportive geometry’. In effect this means a parallel 73-degree head tube and seat ube – pretty much standard road bike geometry and similar to that on comparable frames from the likes of Trek and Specialized. As a result handling is totally predictableComponents are what you’d expect on a bike at this price, based around a nine-speed Shimano Sora groupset with compact FSA chainset. Sora differs from Shimano’s dearer groupsets in having a small thumb-operated lever on the inside of the brake hood for upshifting the rear mech. It allows only a single gear change per shift, and you can’t change up while riding on the drops, unless you’ve got thumbs like an orangutan. But it works well, and we’ve found it durable too. The Tektro brakes are okay without being inspiring. However, the wheels are a step up on those usually seen on £650 machines. The Mavic CXP22 rims aren’t super-light but are strong, should prove easy to service, and contribute to the controlled handling of the bike.
Current Price: £400.00
This Boardman Road Race Bike Carbon Forks Metallic Blue is being sold on eBay by theboysstore2019 from Bracknell, RG12 8ES