Well made Bike - CUBE Attain GTC SL 

He enjoys that ;-)

Going to Mallorca in December, who did you hire from? :)

@@biosfear01I hired from Huerzeler, I found then good and professional. Here is a video about my hire experience. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WHEMSOuQIoQ.html Terry

@@FiveMinuteVelo excellent thank you! I had already found them earlier but it's good to hear you had a good experience with them. I will probably hire a bmc, I have a 2013 Cervelo R3 with 105 so it would be great to test something much more newer 🙂

That's what a bike should be. :)

I think this is common and the issue happens in the painting process.

It annoys me that bike shops and mechanics have to have specific and expensive frame building facing tools to correct a fundamental part of the frame that should be correct FROM the factory.

@RollinRat Yeah, the whole road disc brake move was largely to reduce liability. The manufacturers of carbon wheels eventually realized that what makes a wheel light and stiff, makes for a shit braking surface, and what makes for a good braking surface, doesn’t make a wheel very light or stiff. With the added benefit of increased tire clearance, and more freedom to play with cross sectional profile for the sake of aero. All that is assuming hydraulic brakes don’t also offer better modulation than rim brakes, but if you think it’s all about power I won’t bother arguing with you.

@RollinRat exactly that’s the hole point on those disc brake. Including that with disc brakes, road bikes tend to have broken fork or broken carbon wheel easier than with rim brakes. Without speaking about how the thin wheels get easily locked with the discs, for me is a no no on road bikes.

It's not all bad, the trick is knowing what is!

@@LuescherTeknik I know, and I don’t mean to imply anyone is being unnecessarily negative, just that it’s out of the ordinary that we see something good for a change!

Agree, especially lately. I would much rather talk about the good stuff.

Hamboney is a hack. Raoul is a professional. There's no comparison.

Do you really think people go bike racing for the money? And I'd argue that most titanium frames ARE a bad weight by today's standards. This "budget" frame is 1100g. Most titanium frames I've weighed are 1600g+.

@@n0ch91c3s Cinelli XCR stainless in size small is 1450g.

Titanium isn’t needed either. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1CTjg1TFHDc.html

@@n0ch91c3s My bike weighs 18lbs 9 oz. with pedals and bottle cages. I'd race it. 😁

@@n0ch91c3s Crash a CF frame hard once and see if it's still a bargain. Even if it doesn't break, it has hidden cracks waiting to send you to hospital, or you send it to Raoul for lots of $$$ loving care. Or bin it and start again, like the manufacturers want you to.

Sorry to hear about the failure, I can only speak about this bike.

You can buy an expensive Cannondale and rumours are, you will never have to deal with customer service, because it basically doesn't exist.

"New trend"? My 20 year old Giant TCR has dropped seatstays :)

@@blooptastic I like nice lines on my bikes staggering them looks absolutely stupid in my opinion. It might be an old trend but it has become more trendy again. My favourite Specialised has started doing it on their latest Sirrus carbon bikes. I will not buy another one just like Samsung did with the ridiculous curved screens stopped using them too.

Haha his chart changes everytime he gets sued ;)

@@LuescherTeknik 😄

Yes that's the important bit as Cube is the branding but which factory? I mean Cube use a lot of different factories as some of their frames come out of Bangladesh which is notorious for being a bit poor. Also raw frames are often manufactured in one country and finished in another. It would be nice to know which country it came out of too although I guess it might have made in Germany on it, not sure as many Asian manufactured products are rebranded to 'Made in Germany' under the last significant process rule. Clearly its a very decent factory though but will it be the same factory for this years models? I'm sure there must be a way of identifying the frame though to know if they have moved factories. I'd be very surprised if Cube were making their CF road bikes in Bangladesh like some of their other bikes. I've seen one of their mountain bikes and the saddle post was getting badly scraped by burring inside the seat tube. Surely this has to be manufactured by one of the more advanced CF manufacturers in Taiwan or mainland China. The bike price was quite competitive so maybe mainland China. If a Bangladesh factory has made this when they are relatively new to bike manufacturing then WOW! www.thedailystar.net/business/news/germanys-cube-teams-meghna-make-high-end-bicycles-1632277

You might not know cube as many of us do, im a bike mechatroniker in germany and the placr i work we sell cube, despite havin a few nice models in road mtb and gravel the many of them are or have a very dubious quality. For example one of the best road bikes from Cube, the c68X has a integrated handlebar stem combo which is softer thank my fully extended look Ergostem the fork shaft its also very soft compared to the one in my Colnago c64, same with bb’s in road and mtb version i have to service them at least 2-4 times a week and what yo say about the E-Bike, i had to say they are way better than the Bulls out there but cube headset and their internal routing spacers are the biggest crap ever. They mught look nice but from the mechanical point of view… they are just MEH

He changes his too often ;)

Not any moore Lucy Charles-Barclay is on Cube, Triathlon Queen.