I bought a 2016 Raleigh Tamland 1 on advice of the Corporate discount here. So I bought the bike for $799 + $48 tax. The bike was shipped direct to me from Raleigh. My LBS wanted $1300 for the same bike. I put the bike together sans the front disk caliper as I didn't know how to do that. I took it to my LBS and he finished putting it together for $75. I then went out and climbed my local mt with it which had a 3 mile climb at 7% grade. I thought I was going to die. I then went to another LBS and he put on a 11 x 36 Sram cassette with the road link and a new chain. I then went out and rode the same mt and oh what a difference. Works for me. I did notice that when I did the first test ride that the shifting did seem to jump more/clacking noise and didn's seem as smooth as shifting as the stock 11 x 32 shifting. The LBS did some adjusting and it rides as smooth now as the stock set up.
Zman
Last edited by Zurichman2; 06-11-17 at 11:40 PM.