Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
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Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby bomber65 » Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:32 pm
New to forum and need advice/comments on purchasing a new road bike.
Have just completed Murray to Moyne (approx 200kms over 2 days) on my Gt Tachyon 1 flatbar and am now looking to upgrade to a road bike due to borrowing a mates on a 25km leg a couple of times and the difference was amazing.
Can get a 2014 Cannondale CAAD10 105 and a Merida Scultura CF905 for similar money.
I know the Merida is carbon frame but the Cannondale gets great reviews.
I mainly ride for fitness but since the M2M have got the bug and will be looking at doing longer rides.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby silentbutdeadly » Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:21 am
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby biker jk » Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:43 am
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby cowled » Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:10 am
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby macca33 » Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:57 am
bomber65 wrote:Hi Everyone
New to forum and need advice/comments on purchasing a new road bike.
Have just completed Murray to Moyne (approx 200kms over 2 days) on my Gt Tachyon 1 flatbar and am now looking to upgrade to a road bike due to borrowing a mates on a 25km leg a couple of times and the difference was amazing.
Can get a 2014 Cannondale CAAD10 105 and a Merida Scultura CF905 for similar money.
I know the Merida is carbon frame but the Cannondale gets great reviews.
I mainly ride for fitness but since the M2M have got the bug and will be looking at doing longer rides.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Well done on the M2M mate - I rode my CAAD10 for around 340Km of the distance between Echuca to Port Fairy also, last weekend - weather was great, just a bit head-windy!
I own 2 x CAAD10s and a good mate has a Scultura. I know what I prefer, but you may be different - best is to test-ride them, then see how you feel afterwards. Both are very good bikes for the $$$.
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby rodneycc » Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:49 pm
FYI http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewt ... =9&t=74281" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
For your type of riding I'd personally be going for an endurance based bike... (and a good one at that!)
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby bomber65 » Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:09 pm
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby macca33 » Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:25 pm
rodneycc wrote:Depending on your budget, I'd test ride CAAD10 along side a 2014 Cannondale Synapse and then if you liked the Synapse compare it again with a Trek Domane 5.2.
FYI http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewt ... =9&t=74281" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
For your type of riding I'd personally be going for an endurance based bike... (and a good one at that!)
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I'm not so sure I'd agree with that. I did a 190Km stint Saturday and apart from tiredness from pushing into the wind, felt fine on my bike. Well enough to crack out another 60 that day, then the 90 the following morning.
Whilst I'm sure the 'comfort/endurance' geo bikes have a purpose, they are not the be all to end all IMO.
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby rodneycc » Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:49 pm
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby cowled » Thu Apr 10, 2014 7:23 pm
As I understand it, Cannondale bikes come with a lifetime warranty.silentbutdeadly wrote:Only by riding each of them will you know the answer...though I suspect the Merida has a more reasonable warranty.
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby bomber65 » Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:52 am
Turns out that I was flexible enough for the CAAD geometry.
Have had 2 short test rides of 10km each and already improved average by nearly 1.5kms/hour without pushing.
For a newbie road bike rider this thing feels and handles like a Porsche !!
Thanks for the advice everyone.
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby RRalphy » Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:41 am
Enjoy it mate
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby silentbutdeadly » Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:16 pm
We've been through this before.cowled wrote:As I understand it, Cannondale bikes come with a lifetime warranty.silentbutdeadly wrote:Only by riding each of them will you know the answer...though I suspect the Merida has a more reasonable warranty.
They do...except it is a limited lifetime warranty and it expressly doesn't cover 'frame fatigue'.
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Re: Advice needed Cannondale or Merida
Postby macca33 » Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:23 pm
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