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Felt B16 or QR Seduza

I have been riding a road bike (ally frame) with tri bars for the last 2 seasons and feel it is time to upgrade to a TT bike as I am going longer this year.

I have been pouring over reviews and specs for months and I have narrowed it down to either the Felt B16 or QR Seduza as I only have around 1500 pounds to spend.

Would appreciate anybodies thoughts / advice.

Re: Felt B16 or QR Seduza

Ted, I'm looking for a bike too this season - my advice is to get a bike fit and see which bike suits your build. I am a strong believer (rightly or wrongly) most frames in any given price range will have similar performance profiles.

Felt have a solid athlete portfolio and they have a Pro Tour Team riding their product, whilst QR have been around for a long time producing Tri specific products. It is worth looking on bikeradar for their review too:

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes?searchTerm=&searchType=productSearch&productBrand=Felt&sortBy=publishedDate&dateFromYear=2010&_brc=0&productPriceFrom=&productPriceTo=&submit=Search

First things first, make sure it fits.

Re: Felt B16 or QR Seduza

Thanks for the advice. I have been fitted to a QR Lucero that was on offer at Evans Cycles - down from £3000 to £1700 - bargain! Watch the times tumble - I hope

Re: Felt B16 or QR Seduza

I've got the Seduza which I believe is the same frame. I used my own 50mm carbon wheels so got it down to £1.3K with no wheels however both are great value for money, especially given Dura Ace parts, but size/fit is everything!