Trinx TEMPO1.0 700C Road Bike Shimano 21 Speed Racing Bicycle 53cm 56cm

Really nice looking bike and has a real smooth ride. Amazon description doesn't say it but it's designed in Italy (according to a badge on top of the bottom bracket) and made in China. I measured the weight to around 27lbs* with tires inflated, box and description say 25lbs.*I did it with a luggage scale so it wasn't exactly accurate.Let's start by sorting some stuff out: the bike is being shipped to you in a box, meaning some assembly will be required. you can assemble it quite easily, as both tires are quick release. But the brakes, brake pads and shifters will most definitely need adjustments. Just like any other bike bought that isn't from a dedicated bike shop.Shifters:Hand shifters are Shimano A050, which are comfortable to change with your thumbs and real smooth shifting (after fine tuning). Obviously will need to be adjusted to your preference and hand size. I added a pic of them, you'll notice the left shifter only has L & H, but it takes all 3 gears (L, M & H).The rear derailleur, is a 6/7 shifter. I had to do adjustments to the front one as it took high gear but it was noisy.Tires:Tires are Cst Czar; they look really good, are very skinny and are very smooth. Pumped them to 80psi, no need to go to max tire pressure.**The tires, like the shifters, are a brand of their own, so not going to review them here.**Seat:Looks very cool! But in terms of comfort, it's below average. Which isn't saying much as this type of seats aren't very comfortable to begin with, but you can set the height to a max of 15cm.Kickstand:Rear kickstand type is held by bolts that are attached to a welded piece. Making it removable... if you're into that weight stuff.Handlebar:Handlebar is a drop-down type but has both types of brake levers which is great depending on your riding preference.Brakes:Calipers are Winzip brand, and have a nice stopping power after adjustment (Is there an echo here?). Pads where out of place and cable was pretty lose.Pedals:Plain looking, ordinary pedals that do the job right.All in all a good bike for the money.tl;dr: Buy it, adjust the brake pads and shifters, don't over inflate the tires.

I've wait until we put the first few hundred miles each, on a pair of these, to write this review.I know bicycles, have ridden them many, many miles. Not a newbie.Hopefully, we will put many, many thousand happy miles on these puppies.Now to the review and some pointers:Firstly, this is not a three thousand dollar, sixteen pound road bike. So what?If that's what you want, go find one - and pay for it.If you are ten or more pounds overweight, why not lose those ten pounds instead, and pocket the twenty five hundred bucks. :)It honestly excels at what it is - a nice road bike for a sane price.Recommended as a road bike, fast, reasonably light, sturdy, and responsive.NOT as a racing bike, not as a trail bike.There is some setup needed, fine tuning on the gears and brakes, and the assembly is not particulary straightforward, only because the guide that is included is very generic. If you are not comfortable with adjusting gears, brakes, seats, handlebars, etc. then take it to someone who is. Still, you are wise to learn how to do basic adjustments. Bikes need these.After reading the horror stories about the seat being uncomfortable, I was ready to replace it if needed. It turned out that the seat is actually decently soft for what it is. Remember, it needs to be narrow to be ergonomically correct on a long ride. Those who think the saddle is uncomfortable likely have no experience with a road bike saddle. It has a comfortable degree of padding, maybe approaching a quarter inch - and if you cut your teeth on a solid leather seat, it comes as a soft gentle surprise. If you didn't, well yes, what did you expect? Pumpkin juice? So far, we feel no need to replace that saddle. Give it a hundred miles before you decide. Also remember that most folks angle it slightly down in front for best results. Set the height so your fully extended leg just reaches to the lowest pedal position.Out of the box, the gears are stiff and tough to shift, but they break in and smooth out after a hundred miles or so until they are a pleasure to work with. I was nervous whether the manufacturer's crank set would plug and play happily with the shimano parts, but it works well, frequently a shift is so quiet and smooth that you can't hear a thing, and can barely even FEEL it.The brakes are much the same, until they settle in and seat against the rim, they don't have a whole lot of authority. Aftermarket brake shoes can help, the originals are a bit small and the rubber is hard. Adequate once broken in, but if they still disappoint, investing a few dollars in aftermarket brake shoes here makes a noticeable difference. It took a few steep downhills to really acquaint the brake shoes and rims with each other - for now, I'll let them be, but the next set will be a bit stickier.While I'm at it, there are slide pins on the brake handles to allow the brakes to loosen up and allow tire removal or installation - and they are shipped in the disengaged position. pull the handle, and slide the pins to engage them before setting up the brakes. If not, the setup is wrong - and the brake handles will feel like they are a mile away from your hands.The second set of brake handles on top are a great feature to have, since one spends a great deal of time on the road using the top half of the handlebars. Good - albeit not perfectly coordinated with the pull on the main brake handles, they do what they do well, getting you instant braking from the relaxed top bar position.The tires were reputed to be garbage. Not so. We've run the CST Czar tires on gritty gravel roads a cumulative several hundred miles so far, without a hitch. My advice is to make sure that you treat them well. If they arrive underinflated with the tubes pinched in spots - take the time to sort out the tires and tubes before inflating, and inflate to about 80-120 pounds depending upon your weight, for best results. Underinflated, overinflated, pinched tube, any tire will be in trouble. Good, I think, for maybe 400-750 miles. Not terrible for a twenty five dollar tire.Good basic road bike. Here's the tips and kinks:We found the handlebars too far forward and too low. Replaced the stem to raise them about 3/4 inch and bring them back about an inch. Well worth twenty bucks. Tip: For free, you can flip the stem upside down and gain about a half inch rise, so long as you don't mind seeing the Trinx logo upside down...You can replace the tires with something more like a 3000 mile tire - but that's serious bucks if you don't ride enough to wear them out before they rot out. Acceptable sizes 700 x 23, 25, 28, 32. These are increasingly wide, for increasingly less firm surfaces. Personally, the stock 25 width works for us.Oh, and you probably want tires with little or no tread. The pressure on a small tire means that traction is best with plain old rubber on the road, not a fancy tread pattern. Manufacturers know this, but they also know the public expects a tread pattern and many try to sell you one only because they know you expect one. The stock CST tires are smooth and grab pavement like crazy once your weight is on them.The rims are set up for schrader valve tubes - kind of lame, since these are usually the bottom feeder tubes on road bikes. Most decent quality road bike tubes have presta valves, and you cannot simply swap them since the schrader size hole will let a presta tube pop out, get a hernia, and blow out. No worries. There are cheap stainless steel inserts you can put into the holes in the rims to get them to accept presta valves - recommended. Then you can run the commonly available good tubes. Put a spare tire and tube in your kit, and get the inserts for that point in time when you need them.The unforgiveable sin, if there is one - is that the rear brake arm lines up with the holes in the frame to mount a luggage rack. The bike really works nice with an Ibera rack, but that brake arm is in the way. The cure is to engage in some creative bending of the mounting bracket into a "J" shape forward and around the inside of the support to miss the brake arm. That said, it works fine after an hour of head scratching. Oh, and there is a pop-on pack that fits that rack nicely. Solid, and so long as one is reasonably gentle with the zippers, it holds a boat load of stuff without a complaint. We take a change of clothes, spare tire, tube, tools, a picnic lunch, and more in ours, and also have room for a small grocery shopping trip on the way back. If that isn't enough, they have compatible clip on panniers to allow a boat load of luggage - also recommended, but make sure the tires are at the upper pressure level if you plan to put all that plus yourself on that back tire.A final thought - the high gear is 14 tooth - and from time to time, I've wished for something like 12 tooth to allow a little more speed. Since it is a cassette freewheel, I believe that it is possible to shuffle the cogs to suit. Nice feature on what they sell as an entry level machine. I find I'm climbing moderate grades in the top gear, so there is room to speed things up even more on level ground and gentle downhills... your mileage may vary.The bottom gear is adequate for steep hills and the first out-of-shape ride of the spring. The bike has your back.It is great fun to take these things on a bike trail and run down the ebikes and blow by them... and then thirty or forty miles later, still be trucking along long after their batteries are dead...On the whole - you can tell we like 'em. Very happy.

I was around 12 years old when I owned my last bike. I'm almost 30 now and I fell in love with cycling after renting a few bikes for fitness purposes locally.I live in the Dominican Republic, so this bike had some long-distance shipping to withstand. After 5 days, I received my trinx bike and I was shocked. This bike is stunning.The gears shift a Lot smoother than I expected, and after riding it for the first 10 miles I can see myself riding this bike for a VERY long time. Very sturdy frame!As you can see in the photos, the TRINX logo got a bit damaged during shipping, but I decided it's no one's fault since it had to fly outside of the US.It's a lot lighter than I expected as well.For my first road bike, I think it's one of the best products on Amazon right now.The only (personal) CONS of this bike are:1. The seat is not very comfortable, after 30 minutes my most intimate body parts were screaming in pain.2. I would've preferred a 24 speed rather than a 21 speed, I'm not really a fan of this type of shifter... But I guess I should simply upgrade it over time.TL;DR - Too good to be true. Everyone is shocked I paid only $199.00 for this bike.Highly recommended!!!