Felt 2014 AR1
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Anyone in Europe got the AR1 yet? Seriously hoping mine arrives this week.
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Sorry for the OT, but...
@Mize- I was just in Helen a few weeks ago!! How are the road conditions on hogpen and brasstown? They were really scary with gravel when I was there. How did the bike track on the descents?
Stefano
@Mize- I was just in Helen a few weeks ago!! How are the road conditions on hogpen and brasstown? They were really scary with gravel when I was there. How did the bike track on the descents?
Stefano
The back side of hogpen is a bit gravely (though I still hit fifty), but the front is butter. I vastly prefer doing six gaps backwards and hitting Brasstown early then coming down the butter side of Hogpen. Brasstown is still messy for descending. Otherwise roads were sweet. Weather was upper 70s with one cooler day. Did Tellico Plains on the way home too (River route). Great week. The bike descends like a demon. The wind can catch it a bit, but at 167 lbs it's not a problem.
Mize wrote:Quick update on my AR1:
LOVE the bike. I have three races on it (one podium, two points) and it's a massive upgrade over my Tarmac. Only downside is the LBS I purchase from hosed up all kinds of things. B-screw? Wrong, thanks for that chain suck! Rear d. cable? Too tight so H limit set wrong and couldn't be set properly without adjusting the cable. Every single bolt with a torque spec? Wrong, wrong, wrong. Proper grease on the crankset/BB? Wrong, nice creak, guess I had twenty minutes to kill there too. If anyone has any ideas what else I should check for, please let me know. They even managed to crank the tube-valve nuts (who uses those?) so tight that even they couldn't remove them and had to cut the tube out. Sheesh. How do you do that?
So in sum: amazing bike, terrible LBS build.
...and this is why i do all my own work, I don't trust anyone to work on my bikes.
Gil
Oregon
2014 Felt AR1 11 speep di2
2013 Felt F65x trp hyrd
Oregon
2014 Felt AR1 11 speep di2
2013 Felt F65x trp hyrd
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Superdave thanks for everything, just picked up the bike today. will let everyone know how it goes once i get it all put together. Thanks again.
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Where abouts are you liketoride? I'm still waiting here in Scotland, been assured that the frame is in the UK just waiting on it leaving the distributor in south of England.
mitchgixer6, did they say yours is definitely here? I got told this:
"A large container arrived thursday, which they started unpacking friday - was told to ring back
on monday
As I know you are aware, all of us Felt dealers are in the same boat at the moment! so they
will unpack and log everything in, then send it all out - will hopefully get a firmer answer on
Monday!"
I also had an Ar3R on order at Evans for a test ride but after about a month of pushing it back they rang and said they aren't getting any at all.
"A large container arrived thursday, which they started unpacking friday - was told to ring back
on monday
As I know you are aware, all of us Felt dealers are in the same boat at the moment! so they
will unpack and log everything in, then send it all out - will hopefully get a firmer answer on
Monday!"
I also had an Ar3R on order at Evans for a test ride but after about a month of pushing it back they rang and said they aren't getting any at all.
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I was told the same that the container had arrived on dry land and once they had sorted through all the bikes/frames (1800 odd I was told) they would begin to ship. This was during a phone conversation with my dealer and I didn't have a very good line, but I was sure he said they were in the country (UK).
Were you told the frames were in Germany?
Were you told the frames were in Germany?
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There is that chance I suppose. When did you order your frame? I put my order in at the end of November and to be honest if I'm told next week I'm not getting one in this shipment I'll be cancelling my order. I have faith in my dealer though to come good with the frame though!
I've already had to ride 2 races this year so far on my winter bike.....
I've already had to ride 2 races this year so far on my winter bike.....
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