Originally Posted by
brawlo
How tall are you? Bigger frames mean you need to be more picky. Smaller frames are pretty much all stiff enough.
I'd take a look at good quality 2nd hand frames to start with. Inevitably you will want a new frame down the road with different characteristics to suit your size and ride style, so save your big spend for that one.
I'm 1,74m tall
Now I have a aluminium BMC trackmachine 02 and FFWD 9T wheels.
We are very lucky and if someone wants to compete, we have some disc and 5 spoke wheels, so I don't need to buy them. The only bike part I need is a good frame.
I saw that Lasse Norman Hansen made 1'01" in the Kilo and 13,4 in the 250m flying lap with the T4 so I think it is stiff enough for me but I don't know why people only use it on endurance.
Cervelo sais that they improved the stiffness of the Bottom Bracket.
The Fuji is a really nice bike but they'd lost a lot of retailers in Spain and it's almost imposible to buy it. The only size 54 I found was 2100€ and not available.
I found also a BMC TR01 frameset in 3300, maybe it worths.
I tried to buy an Argon 18 electron pro but here in Europe it costs 6600€.
LOOK, Pinarello and Ridley are also too expensive