This is a decent bike, Progear has a distribution centre in Melbourne. I find that the parts for Pro gear are very good and not cheap parts.
This is a good deal.
RD-120 V2 Road Bike Black Ember $299 (65% off) + Delivery ($0 MEL/BNE C&C/ in-Store) @ Progear Bikes
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Never heard of this groupset brand, is it good?
No
Freewheel? That is disappointing
Looks to be Microshift. It's reliable but very very basic. They say its Shimano Sora equivalent, but I wouldn't compare this with current Shimano Sora. Maybe Sora 3300 from early 2000s. You could do worse than this bike, but you can still do better on the 2nd hand market.
Maybe the shifters are Claris-comparable (not Sora). But the gears are decidedly Tourney level.
With a freewheel, not cassette, the highest gear will be very limited. As well as axle weakness.
No quick-release wheels too, and brakes of suspect quality. I wouldn't consider this particularly a bargain.
ive been using chinese copies of the microshift shifters for the last 2 years - working great so far
MicroSHIFT - Taiwanese groupset manufacturer , been around for about 20yrs so puts them at an established-emerging stage. Their lower end groupsets are used in OEM bikes by the likes of Decathlon etc. The mid range offerings are good value for money.
I would put it in the 'would buy' category for a value build.
Good an reliable. At least their high end Advent X groupset is ( mtb)
Makes you wonder how crap the rest of the bike is if most of the price is taken up by the group set.
$88 shipping for me
Weird
1 bike DOOR TO DOOR (STANDARD) $63.79
2 bikes DOOR TO DOOR (STANDARD) $255.43
3 bikes DOOR TO DOOR (STANDARD) $276.64It’s very hard to pedal two bikes at once
Only slightly more difficult for 3
I’d pay just to watch the poor guy do it
Nah 2 at once is easy, 3 is impossible for me tho
Silly me, thinking that was going to be delivered in a truck
I think it makes complete sense.
- I can carry one bike fairly easily.
- carrying two bikes is about 4x as difficult as carrying one.
- if I'm already carrying 2 bikes, a third bike won't make it much more clumsy and awkward.
Reviews of their bikes are a bit hit and miss - all the positive ones have only 1 review and all the negative ones come from profiles with multiple.
Anyone who has the bike and dealt with ProGear able to say if they're worth buying from?
I have tried one but at this price I'd still say the used market would offer better value
It's cheap but that's because it's a cheap bike e.g. - no quick release hubs to shave a few dollars off the cost. Using wheel nuts instead - which you don't see often these days - except on cheap bikes. I don't see anything here that makes significantly better than a department store bike and there's no way in the world it would actually sell at its "normal" price of $869.
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I bought a mountain bike from ProGear last year and had it shipped to sydney,
As the same time i bought a road bike for the wife from Reid, Progear was a lot faster
both were the cheapest model for basic riding (not something i would ride to work every day), i would say frame is generic across all the bikes with addins where they can to up the price.
I wouldn't buy either of them again, but for what you pay, previous posters are correct, better quality on Gumtree/FB Market place
Tempting but with the new Tarmac SL8 release just around the corner I'll give it a miss.
This frame won't squeeze like a coke bottle though!
The groupset alone is almost the price of the bike, not a bad deal.