New Winter Bike 2 options

[errbud]

Hello all,

Looking for a new winter bike after lots of searching I've narrowed it down to 2 bikes. Felt F75 or Cinelli Experience (mostly veloce).
Both at great prices the Felt at £599 (full 105) and Cinelli £650.
Any opinions advice welcome I'm swaying towards the Felt but can't make my mind up ..

http://www.merlincycles.com/felt-f75-road-bike-2014-boxed-72748.html

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/cinelli-experience-veloce-2014/

Cheers

 

[Bexon30]

Hello all,

Looking for a new winter bike after lots of searching I've narrowed it down to 2 bikes. Felt F75 or Cinelli Experience (mostly veloce).
Both at great prices the Felt at £599 (full 105) and Cinelli £650.
Any opinions advice welcome I'm swaying towards the Felt but can't make my mind up ..

http://www.merlincycles.com/felt-f75-road-bike-2014-boxed-72748.html

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/cinelli-experience-veloce-2014/

Cheers[/QUOTE


After looking at the 2 links in liking the look of the Cinelli bike with Veloce, at the price it seems a good deal. For winter I would run 25 there and now am giving serious consideration to getting one. Maybe someone has experience with the experience? Be good to hear. Definatly the Italian for me, but either way nice bikes.

 

[laurel1969]

Both much of a muchness. Downgraded brakes and chain set on both.Don't know what those wheel sets are like.Probably comes down to whether you like the Campag shifters or not.

Personally I'd compare weights of each bike. If there is nothing in it and you don't care about the ergo vs sti debate then go for the cheapest and put the £50 away, triple it and buy some wheels (open pro on tiagra/105) from Rose Versand.

 

[errbud]

Bexon yeah initially I was going for the cinelli only drawback was the white paint job I've had a white winter bike before and it's hard to keep proper clean. The Felt comes in black which is a plus although I really like the cinelli especially for the price.
Laurel it looks like the Felt is 0.5kg lighter at 9kg again another plus.

Cheers

 

[avanti]

Bike fit is the most important thing for me and I would be looking carefuly at the frame geometry, especially stack (BB to top of head tube) and reach (BB to top head tube).