Thoughts on the Aventon Cordoba?
I'm thinking of getting one off CityGrounds. Does anyone have thoughts?
Posted Oct 11, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC
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try the weekly questions thread
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I bought one, haven't ridden it yet, still waiting on parts. But the build quality seems sound and its fairly light. If this is the frame your wanting I would buy with CityGrounds, that's where I got mine and had no problems.
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If I were to buy an Aventon frame, I'd get the Cordoba over all other models because it doesn't have the same possibilities of issues that the Mataro or the Mataro Low has, primarily having to do with the seat post/tube, and the fork snapping in half due to bad engineering. (but the fork thing is for the frameset, not the frame alone). The Cordoba is solid though, just don't use the original fork for any Aventons.
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So use the Cordoba frame but not the fork?
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exactly, get an alpina, columbus, or some other carbon fork
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Yeah, that's what he's saying.
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It's a great frame for the price. I'd let you ride mine if you were close.
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I just started building a new daily commuter/school bike centered around the Cordoba Frame as well.
To me it's not as flashy as the Mataro but it still keeps the track inspired look. I just wish you could get the amazing metallic grey frame by itself...
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I just bought one a month ago, and is is single handedly the best bike purchase I have ever made. I love it. It takes a while to get used to the stiffness, but then you really start to have fun. I advise upgrading the crankset, because the stock one is heavy, and kind of slow.
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i've heard mixed reviews. a couple of my close friends said it feels like a pop can.
i've tried the leader and it wasn't great at all.
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pop can? did they/you think it was stiff?
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it wasn't that stiff. it just felt empty.
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It's kind of ridiculous for us to try and quantitatively subjectively say whether a frame is noticeably stiffer than another. In truth and all likelihood, very few people could put down enough power to be able to demonstrate that a certain frame is less stiff than another.
For OP, unless you are professional track racing, you won't notice and it won't matter.
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its not about stiffness. the frame is just dead feeling. the difference between a leader and my thunderdome or my old T1 is significant.
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Quantitatively say? No one is trying to put numbers to it here. That said, it's not hard to feel a bike flex if you're mashing on it. A lot of people won't notice, won't care, and/or won't be able to tell where the flex is coming from but they can make it flex.
Even then, I'm not sure if the dead feeling some people get from some aluminum has to do solely with stiffness either. I've ridden expensive, 7000-series aluminum bikes that have felt dead and cheap 6000-series bikes that felt great.
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Go for it. The seat post issues have been resolved in recent models, and as for the fork issue, I would just get a different one anyway because the supplied one is very heavy and apparently some people have had it break although i think that is less likely now that they updated and improved recent models. I have an Aventon Mataro (with a carbon fork) and it is perfectly fine. Feels like any other aluminum frame with large diameter tubing.
that's good to know, i might consider getting one in the future, because i love the look of them, its just that they obviously had some trial and error kinks to work out with the prototype/beta frames. i'd still be wary of the mataro/mataro low just in case you end up getting sold the older version though, it has happened to me with previous bikes that had older issues that have been revised.