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Most popular Bike Brands

Although none of us were that surprised by the news story this week about the top 3 bike brands for sportives it did get me thinking. Although there are loads of Spesh, Trek and Giant bikes out there (I just need to look at my employers bike sheds), of the people I cycle with at weekends or on the few sportives I have done, their bikes have been Canyon, Cannondale, Plant-X and only 1 Giant.

As I am a stats fan, would everyone be interested in doing our own survey and I'll pull together the results in a couple of weeks. And to make our survey EVEN MORE comprehensive than theirs :), how about we take into account the n+1 factor and list which brand of bike you use for the below 3 types of road riding, e.g. (my entry below)

Commute = Trek
Sportive = Colnago
Race = N/A

If there is no appetite for this or if only a few respond then I'll let this slowly disappear down the forum, however if we have a big enough sample size I'll collate the results in a few weeks and publish the results.

Cheers
Tim

If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.

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boyfrom64 | 9 years ago
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Weekend / fun Spesh Secteur (first road bike)
Late summer above to be replaced with a Rose / Canyon

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Manchestercyclist | 9 years ago
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Commute, Wednesday night chain gang, pulling kids trailer & weekend bike= Kinesis GF

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chrisp1973 | 9 years ago
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Commute - Felt F95

Sportive - Felt AR5

Yup, I'm a fan of the Felt!  41

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BigAl68 | 9 years ago
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Winter = trek 1.5
Summer or dry winter days = planet X RT58

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philtregear | 9 years ago
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commute; giant
winter dawes
best days raleigh

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newtonk | 9 years ago
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Commute / Sportive: Rose Pro SL (only bike)

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bashthebox | 9 years ago
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There's been a shake-up in my stable recently, so now I've got:
Best/fast bike: Open mould special
Vastly over-specced winter bike: Planet-X SL Pro Carbon
Bike to leave at the parents should the need arise: Trek 5400
Commuter 1: Neil Orrell steel beauty
Commuter 2: Random alloy single speed. It's yellow.

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Wookie | 9 years ago
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Commute (Winter) = Whyte Charing cross
Commute (Summer) = Genesis Equilibrium 853
Sportive = Pinarello FP2

Although I rode the Essex Spring Lamb on the Genesis

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barbarus | 9 years ago
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Commute / Fun: Charge Plug 3

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underwood | 9 years ago
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Commute: Merida Cyclocross 4
Weekend/Fun: Dolan Tuono SL

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MartyMcCann | 9 years ago
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Road- Specialized Allez
Off-road- Specialized Hardrock

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Dapper Giles | 9 years ago
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Commute - Boardman CX
Winter - Boardman CX
Weekend/Fun - Boardman CX

I only have one bike. So massive N+1 feels for me.

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antonyr5 | 9 years ago
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Commute - Koga Miyata
Winter - Ribble
Summer - Onix

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Comrade | 9 years ago
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Giant SCR2= just one bike.

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Jimbonic | 9 years ago
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Commute: BSA Javelin bitsa fixie. Although that's currently off the road due to an errant chain ring! So, I'm back to my Raleigh Aero Max Pro singlespeed MTB-type thing (affectionately known as General Dog's Body)

Sunday Best: Planet-X Pro Carbon (doesn't get used as much as I'd like - families, eh?!)

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MattT53 | 9 years ago
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Commute - Specialized
Winter - Bianchi
Race/Summer - Cannondale

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rabeynon | 9 years ago
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Commute - Quella fixie
Winter/training - Cube
Race - Canyon CF SLX

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hammond83 | 9 years ago
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commute- Ridgeback
Winter-Lynskey
Summer- Cyfac

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pirnie | 9 years ago
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Winter: Trek 1.5
Summer: Wilier Gran Turismo

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I_like_bikes | 9 years ago
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Ghost Race Actinum 5000 - my do it all road/Commute/Sportive bike

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Simon.R | 9 years ago
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no commuting for me, but:

MBR - GT
CX - Kinesis
Road Winter - Vitus
Road Summer - Ridley
TT - Ridley

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adamtaylor | 9 years ago
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Commute (and a little bit of CX training last year) = Ridley X-Bow
Weekend/Sportive = Ridley Orion

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Beefy | 9 years ago
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Commute; Giant defy

Sportive; Ribble sportive bianco

Race; Kawasaki  44

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Harryb2996 | 9 years ago
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Commute - Felt Z95
Sportive - Boardman Pro Carbon SLR
Race - Boardman Pro Carbon SLR

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userfriendly | 9 years ago
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Commute: Revolution Cross Pro

(Revolution is Edinburgh Bicycle's own brand)

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stuke | 9 years ago
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Commute: Ribble Audax
Genesis Flyer
Sportive/Audax: Kinesis T2
Race: Ridley Cheetah TT

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Bokonon | 9 years ago
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On Road - Giant
Off Road - Specialized
Dragging Kids - Dawes

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md6 | 9 years ago
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Don't commute anymore although i used to use a Viner Gladius for that
Weekend/sportive - Ridley
TT/Tri - Look

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Martyn_K | 9 years ago
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No commuting for me, so;

Winter/ Wet day - Cube Attempt
Summer / Dry day - Cube Litening Super HPC Pro

and the Mrs....

Winter / Wet day - Spesh Secteur
Summer / Dry day - Planet X Pro Carbon

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egb | 9 years ago
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Winter: Trek 1.9
Summer: Giant TCR Advanced 2
(I'm so common  29 )

Commute/pub: Marin

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