So after much cursing and complaining about my old bike (the Occano U310 from stadium) I decided to get myself something new.
First I was thinking about a racer, maybe italian, like Bianchi, but since I’m fat and like gravel and winter biking (I say like, but I mean there is gravel on my way to work and I’m trying to be a good bike citizen during winter) I started looking at cyclocross.
First I started looking at Corratec and Ridley (105 Disc and X-bow 105 disc), price wise in the same range, available at my L(-ish)BS, but the more I looked the more I saw the light, none of my really close LBS had anything I liked.
Queue now, the euro is fairly cheap compared to the SEK, germany and UK are more or less overflowing with online bike stores (Chain reaction, Wiggle, Rose etc).
Some more research and I found the Boardman CX team and the Van Dessel Gin and Trombone at Wiggle, bad news, not available in my size.
Oh well, I found what I was looking for over at poison bikes, the Poison Opium XI disc.
I went for the one with SRAM Apex white groupset, as the idea of double tap sounds so much better then the shimano 105. Color choice is light blue and it’ll look something like this when it’s done:
So, order was placed last week, total cost roughly 1350€ and delivery will be in about 4 weeks! *ICANTWAIT!*
