Scattante CFR Carbon Road - Ultegra

Price Paid:  $1440.00 at performance

Favorite Ride:
Scattante Elite

Bike Setup:
shimano Ultegra, Ksryium Elite, FSA carbon Cranks etc

Summary:
Loving my new bike. Howeever, Wish I could find my stolen Quattro Assi. The 2000 dollar insurance deductible made it imposssible for me to replace my 4 Aces..But for 1440 I was able to almost replace my bike.

Strengths:
Carbon monocoque frame is durable and light an so beautiful

Weaknesses:
Short cranks(They spin great though)

Similar Products Used:
My former and stolen bike

Price Paid:  $1199.00 at Performance Bike

Favorite Ride:
Petaluma hills with friends

Bike Setup:
Carbon frame (SL6), full ultegra triple components, Mavik Aksium race wheels, Tektro Quartz brakes

Summary:
Great value, with nice carbon frame and top of the line components. Very responsive to the rider with great acceleration on hills and smooth and quick stopping from the brakes. I had it up to 40 MPH and noted none of the issues identified in some other reviews. The price combined with 20% store credit made the purchase a much better value than other bigger brands. The Performance store service crew is a bit of a challenge but the bike is top notch.

Strengths:
Great frame, components and warrantee at a price severla hundred dollars below comparable bikes

Weaknesses:
None that I've noted yet, although I did find the geometry to be a bit too aggressive for a 40 something rider and reduced the size of the original stem on the handlebars.

Similar Products Used:
Bianchi Imola with aluminum frame

Price Paid:  $1500.00 at Performance Bike

Favorite Ride:
ALL of 'em

Bike Setup:
Ultegra all around, FSA carbon crank, Mavic Ksyrium Sl wheels, carbon seatpost, Continental 4000's Grand Prix tires - Love these!

Summary:
I have been loving this bike more and more with every ride. I rode the Courage Classic here in Colorado and have gotten the bike up to 50mph on beautiful decents, this bike felt as stable as if I was riding 10mph. It was unbelievable! Climbing Vail pass is normally no joke, this bike did incredible, nice stiff full crank make me work, but the bike was awesome! We rode the century ride on the second day, after 58miles the first day, I wasn't sore at all! I love this thing!

Strengths:
The stock components are great - Ultegra all around, great wheels for stock - Mavic Ksyriums. Great, light, stiff frame!

Weaknesses:
Haven't found any yet!

Similar Products Used:
Cannondale Synapse, Fuji Race, Rocky Mountain, Litespeed

Price Paid:  $1280.00 at performance site

Favorite Ride:
sunday rides

Bike Setup:
105 in the front, ultegra on rear, and 105changer, kenda tires, forte handlebar and seat and seat mast

Summary:
Have brought the bike to Brazil and found no defects, assembled, it is a beauty.
The dinamics of the bike is very good, i read many times about how a carbon and semi sloped frame can accelerate faster in hills, i couldn~t believe that big difference would occur i relation to my R500 cannondale, but i am enchanted by the way it is easy to accelerate on hills. overall i am very satiesfied with the bike,, a litle difficult to get used to the forte seat, but after about 10 times i was used to, the 105 shimano components are very good

Strengths:
it is light for me,8,1kgs , easy to pedal on hills, beautiful, and 40percent of a brand bike, the standard kenda tires took a long time to flat

Weaknesses:
no problems until now

Similar Products Used:
cannondale r500

Price Paid:  $900.00

Bike Setup:
Dura Ace shifters and deraliuers. Dura Ace crank 177.5mm. Mavic cosmic wheels. Itallia leather seat.

Summary:
I bought the CFR frame for $300 and added Dura Ace components and Mavic wheels. This is a vey underated bike. To buy a bike of this caliber with the components I have, would be well over $2000. I have about $1100 total in it.

Strengths:
Low weight. My bike is a 60cm frame and weighs in at 19.8 lbs.

Weaknesses:
Can't really think of one right now.