that’s a great price, prodeal?[/quote]
Amazon has them for $1700 so that’s close
That seems like a helluvalota bike for the money in any case!
I’m in Lafayette right now and commuting from here for the next month.
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that’s a great price, prodeal?[/quote]
What’s crazy is that it isn’t even prodeal. Looks like Accell brands aren’t on my deal list anymore for whatever reason but Jenson and BC/CC have them on sale for $1600, then add in the 5-7% on ActiveJunky gets you to $1488-1520 territory.
Lots of big companies have worked out deal with Accell to get like 40% off retail on Diamondback. Go to the Microsoft campus and count the poorly-assembled $400 hybrids, sometime.
verizon/aol gets that discount too.
can confirm, lots of derped up DBs rollin’ around.
Yeah, they ship those things to the customers exactly as a bike would arrive at a bike shop. Now, building a bike from a box isn’t hard, but it does take certain expertise and some fundamental understanding about how bikes work. Diamondback claims that the bikes are “90% complete”, effectively encouraging these clowns to try and build it themselves. Frankly, I don’t understand how this isn’t considered a huge liability, because a company like Trek or Specialized has been known to pull dealerships from shops who allow customers to take un-built boxes home.
Fortunately for them, and I have plenty of replacement derailleurs.
would those haanjo things be total shit for cx racing? the geometry isn’t THAT far off from a specialized crux. i don’t have a desperate need for a very low front end.
dear god this is a horrible review:
still, i want one of these now that i know they exist. $1600 on competitive cyclist + $80 stem + $100 bars + $80 seatpost + $160 real ultegra cranks is still a great price.
If you’re going to complain about the bike’s fit/geo, maybe include a table or graphic? Just sayin’…
i could be misinterpreting what you’re saying, but i’m not complaining about its fit or geo! i think it looks good. i’m just asking whether people think it would be a decent cx race bike, based on geometry.
Sorry, I was commenting on the original author/article. He could have included some actual details in the Fit/Geo section of the article.
I saw that and stopped when I got to the fit section of the article. Suggesting one size up to achieve longer reach while completely disregarding that other dimension known as “stack” is garbage.
BB will be a little bit lower than some cross race bikes, but I raced my coffee grinder for a season and didn’t feel like it held me back (more my general lack of cx skills).
I’ve got a Haanjo, it’s a bike. It goes where I point it and feels pretty comfortable. Room for tires is nice to have. It’s a tall bike, I only have about a fistfull of seatpost on the 56cm model. It feels fairly similar to the Niner RLT.
I don’t know how it would do in a CX race but it’s felt fine on singletrack the couple times I’ve gone out. I know the two don’t really compare but it’s as close as I can get. Slack-ish ht kinda makes it feel less twitchy and a little less flickable imo, but that’s what I was after.
hm. less flickable is not what i’m after.
the rlt is like $50 more and has better geo for cross.
Also isn’t a Diamondback.
Includes Ultegra crank means that it’s automatically a better value than the DB, but the handlebars are immediate pull-offs. Those Diamondback’s HED wheels aren’t the real thing - they’re heavy, semi-decent OEM stuff with powder coated grey spokes. I’d take the Stan’s over them any day, and I hate Stan’s rims. Basically, that Niner is better than the Diamondback in every possible way, with both bikes still being great values.
Whoops, didn’t see this until now… apologies!
[quote=iwillbe]1. Is there a good option for locking a semi-nice bike at Cal or around downtown Berkeley?
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Most of the commuters I see on Wildcat / Canyon / Pinehurst etc are on road bikes in lycra carrying small backpacks. Maybe Bart in from Lafayette once a week to stock up on office clothes and buy an 11" Macbook Air? Schlepping a load up and down 1000’ vertical of hillside switchbacks every day just doesn’t sound fun to me, but what do I know.
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I’m not sure where in Moraga you are, but I’d probably go Old San Pablo Dam Road to Wildcat to Shasta to Grizzly Peak, and then take Euclid straight to Cal or Marin straight to warp speed (20% avg grade?). [/quote]
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From what I’ve read the BikeLink system looks to be a solid option. Secure, electronically-accessible individual lockers at every Bart station (and several spots on campus) as well as a valet parking storefront at the Downtown Berkeley station (A few stores down from the SW corner of Shattuck/Allston). They cost $0.05-0.08 per hour and run through a card.
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Yeah that is always an option, once I start going we’ll get a sense for how heinous the (lightly) loaded trip is. I’ve carried this amount of load before and it’s doable in a backpack or midsized messenger, but I’ve never been too happy with it for longer distances and want to give racklyfe a try.
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I’ll be off Ascot Dr which is right by the Rheem/Moraga Rd intersection. Euclid is definitely an option, haven’t tried Centennial but that’s been recommended to me as well as a pretty straight shot down past the botanical gardens and into campus.
i came here to post in this thread
but in the process of composing my post figured it out on my own
thanks everybody
[quote=Roundabout]Whoops, didn’t see this until now… apologies!
[quote=iwillbe]1. Is there a good option for locking a semi-nice bike at Cal or around downtown Berkeley?
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Most of the commuters I see on Wildcat / Canyon / Pinehurst etc are on road bikes in lycra carrying small backpacks. Maybe Bart in from Lafayette once a week to stock up on office clothes and buy an 11" Macbook Air? Schlepping a load up and down 1000’ vertical of hillside switchbacks every day just doesn’t sound fun to me, but what do I know.
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I’m not sure where in Moraga you are, but I’d probably go Old San Pablo Dam Road to Wildcat to Shasta to Grizzly Peak, and then take Euclid straight to Cal or Marin straight to warp speed (20% avg grade?). [/quote]
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From what I’ve read the BikeLink system looks to be a solid option. Secure, electronically-accessible individual lockers at every Bart station (and several spots on campus) as well as a valet parking storefront at the Downtown Berkeley station (A few stores down from the SW corner of Shattuck/Allston). They cost $0.05-0.08 per hour and run through a card.
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Yeah that is always an option, once I start going we’ll get a sense for how heinous the (lightly) loaded trip is. I’ve carried this amount of load before and it’s doable in a backpack or midsized messenger, but I’ve never been too happy with it for longer distances and want to give racklyfe a try.
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I’ll be off Ascot Dr which is right by the Rheem/Moraga Rd intersection. Euclid is definitely an option, haven’t tried Centennial but that’s been recommended to me as well as a pretty straight shot down past the botanical gardens and into campus.[/quote]
Centennial is fast and drops you right into campus, but it has a couple of reliably awful intersections around the botanical gardens. I guess it depends on what part of campus you’re commuting to, right? Sounds like you’re way more up to date than I am on bike parking in downtown Berkeley. If there’s locked and attended parking, rad! My partner got her pedals stolen in less than an hour when parked outside the DT Berkeley Bart station, but I once left a Patagonia rain jacket on top of my bike a block from there and nobody took it.
Wildcard option for getting over the hills: you can take dirt trails through parts of the parks, so if you really want to get into the whole multi-surface front load thing, you could do so via a seriously massive daily commute.
[quote=Wintage Townie]Also isn’t a Diamondback.
Includes Ultegra crank means that it’s automatically a better value than the DB, but the handlebars are immediate pull-offs. Those Diamondback’s HED wheels aren’t the real thing - they’re heavy, semi-decent OEM stuff with powder coated grey spokes. I’d take the Stan’s over them any day, and I hate Stan’s rims. Basically, that Niner is better than the Diamondback in every possible way, with both bikes still being great values.[/quote]
thanks. i’ve looked at the niner before. still not sure if i should be buying a “real cross racing bike” considering my only redeeming factor in races is my ability to turn the bike fast.
I thought someone said that they has similar geometry. So all others things being equal, the Niner is just a better bike.