Not the best option to be riding around end of October outdoors in UK, you will need cold weather kit or you will get very very wet and very cold.
Bayswater? Don't bother bringing your bike, most gyms around have good spinning bikes / wattbikes for training and they normally do weekly passes, just bring bib shorts and cycling shoes with spd cleats. Bikes are not allowed on tube except for overground or some specific lines limited stops at non-peak times which means you will have to cycle, and again I wouldn't suggest riding in London if you're not used to it (unless you're very good at CX or MTB riding)

And Manchester Piccadilly is super crowded, if you want to ride, only good time to make your way outwards is morning on weekends when it's less busy on roads, or drive further out to start riding. Get a gym pass in this case instead.

Robbery, won't happen. Theft of parked bikes, very common.

If you were coming in Spring/Summer, bring your bike. If you're coming now, keep your bike at home because rain is everywhere and temperatures are hovering around 10C.

living and racing an hour away from London for the past 10 years

i'm from seri kembangan, but weekend i can ride anywhere around kl/selangor area

Tcr Advanced 2 2019 : USD1900 Malaysia selling RM6500

Caad 12 2019 : USD1575 Malaysia selling RM7000

Whatttt???!!!! Why is the Caad so much more expensive when it should be cheaper
Caad selling above price while tcr selling below.
Why why

yah. that is why need to go to the shop
those who are not able to do so, buying online is quite risky

but hey, proper q&a with the seller should be a good requirement

Just found out I cannot just buy any cheap road bike. It has to be spec to my size/height.
Any good new road bike under 2k with 54-56cm frame ? 56cm is best.
All the ones out there ready to go are either 44 or 49cm or 50cm too small for my height.

Not really and even though I can explain why without using esoteric jargons, people who have set their own convictions find it hard to accept the truth and would rather be indifferent, shun it away and be a conceited self proclaimed expert.

hmm...so i need to increase my effort/cadence for my usual 54km ride for my muscle to adjust itself and cope with higher effort.

Wow Fraser's loop seems deadly! we usually ride round Penang island which is around 80km.
Support vehicle is good RM40 is not bad for decent group of riders, and also a backup incase of emergency like in your case.

why face palm?  im asking for opinion.. my budget only allow me to get cervelo.. those speciallized really out of my range

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because at sarawak , my hometown, only available  cervelo distro.. the specialized one is on the other city. tarmac with ultegra costs 10k+ 

hI all,

I'm planning to go into cycling, using mountain bike.

1) What brand of bike is recommended?..I'm planning to survey at shopee website

2) the rationale for picking mountain bike is because it has cheaper maintenance. Is this rationale correct?

Facts:
- Budget: RM400 and below, if possible, below RM200.   (I saw the model Garion at shopee, cost RM443, looks fine, recommended?)
- purpose: to keep fit, will cycle it once per week, or once in 2 weeks.

If u service or take of ur bike as per instruction, mtb is more expensive to maintain. The fork maintenance is expensive. If u dont care about it, just use without servicing the fork, then yes, mtb could be the cheaper option.

why not just buy another high end bike? Comes with new pair of wheelset

You guys already know that even high priced high end bikes still comes with low end parts that attached through it to cut corners.  Even bikes RM$10,000 Specialized Carbon Tarmac comes with crappy DT Swiss R470 rims.  With selective parts i know which is necessary for my riding style that save budget for commuting.  34 years of cycling i learned that "its not the bike its the rider".   Here's is the video of my commuting...so you guys know my riding style and parts needed.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKkFLfU1e4g


Will post updates once i have the wheels and grouppo replaced. 

Btw some share your cycling videos, long time haven't seen lowyat member share their cycling video adventures. 
Sharing your cycling passion

Here's a cycling video I did with a bunch of them from this forum 3 years ago, when I first started cycling not to long ago.. They encouraged me to do this insane loop, suffered badly but I am glad I did it 

Thank you all for the wonderful encouragements 

Too bad now everyone is busy and we all have our own commitments 



I hope to make more videos too in the near future 

Hey happy 2019!, 

Latest updates...
I didn't get the neither MAVIC model because COSMIC wasn't available and AKSIUM went into factory recall.  So my existing choice in the shop was between PROLITE CARBON, FULCRUM QUATTRO
and PROGRESS PHANTOM TURBINE NITRO......i ended up getting the PROGRESS PHANTOM TURBINE NITRO wheelset because its lighter, quality build and very good bearing....but expensive!
Also upgraded whole groupset using latest SHIMANO 105 R7000 and also change cockpit parts to adjust the reach setup.  Overall revived my 10 year old road bike with new tech.  Did some test ride, the climbing and acceleration was a huge improvement.  New R7000 grouppo shift smooth and nice feeling on the shifter hood for small hands. That was the best setup ever made.  Below snapshots of my bike build for 2019.

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