CyclingForums
A community for cyclists, gear, training and racing.
Bike buying advice · Public discussion
This thread is locked and is currently read-only.
Thread details
The navigation and discussion metadata provide context. Posts remain in their original chronological order.
I recently just got back from the LBS looking for an entry level road bike that I can use and perhaps do some light racing on.
the guy showed me to the Jamis Ventura Comp. Seems like a really nice bike.
its 875$ along with fitting and getting me on the trainer to fine tune it.
anyone here have any input on this? should I got for it?
I have one and nearly 2000kms later I still really like it.🙂
I bought mine because a friend has one, plus it was editors choice in one of the bike mags a couple of years ago. You get a lot of good components for what you pay.
If you do get one I would recommend to:
1.Replace the standard tektro brake pads (black calipers, grey pads on my version) as they are very abrasive and will wear the sides of the rims very quickly. I used shoes that fit Shimano Tiagra brakes and they work well.
2. Fit a chain keeper/watcher thing to the seat tube. Certain combinations of gearing were causing the chain the jump past the smaller front sprocket and fall on the frame when shifting. It happened 4 or 5 times in 1500kms or so and always at a bad time. The chain keeper has fixed that. 🙂
Active in the last 60 minutes
0 users · 0 guests ·0 bots ·0 total
No signed-in users are active right now.
No known search crawlers active right now.