Jamis Comet 27

Price Paid:  $1600.00 at BikeTek

Favorite Ride:
bayou tortue road

Bike Setup:
Ultegra gruppo
Mavic Ksyrium Elites with straight pull Zicral aero spokes
Easton EC70 fork
Easton EA70 Bar
Changed to Richey Logic stem to shorten
Headset: FSA Orbit Z zero-stack Aheadset, 1 1/8”, 20mm spacers.
Pave Fiz:i'k saddle,Easton EA70 post
Hutchinson Fusion long distance tires
BB,TruVativ ISIS Drive GigaPipe
Crankset: Shimano TruiVativ Rouleur, 52/42/30
Freewheel: Shimano CS-6500,9-speed,11-23
Shifters: Shimano Ultegra, Dual Control STI, 27-speed.
Brakset: Shimano Ultegra calipers, Ultegra STI levers.
Pedals: Speedplay X2 stainless
Flame red/Gloss black
Large size
www.jamisbikes.com

Summary:
I bought this bike after looking for about 4 months. I looked at stuff online and at various bike shops from Louisiana, Florida, and finally Pennsylvania!
The bike is light, about 17 pounds for a large. It is a Kenesis SuperLight 7005 tubing. With carbon stays and fork blade.
It has a better ride than my LeTour, which is a steel frame and fork. The roads here can be very bad and the carbon seems to remove some harshness.
The shifting on the rear derailleur is fantastic. Very smooth and quiet. The front derailleur seems to take a little fiddling with. Sometimes I get a some rubbing of the chain and have to trim with the barrel adjuster on the downtube. I only notice this when trying to use the big and center chain ring on the same ride, and not every time. This bike came with the triple chainring. I bought it in Pittsburgh. The triple would be more useful there than in South Louisiana.
The Pave Fizik seat seams ok for me so far. I do wonder if a carbon seat post would be better than alloy.
The bike climbs great, of course that is mostly up to my legs. My first ride was in Pittsburgh, where i bought it, and there are some hills there! I see why they order them with the triple.
The Hutchinson Fusion tires seem good, but i got my first pinch flat last week. I also noticed a cut place on the rear tire, but it does not go through. I recommend the long stem tubes for even these Ksyrium Elites.
The shop put on a 1cm shorter stem to set the bike up to fit me better.
There seemed to be many different bikes set up similiar to the Jamis. But, i have no regrets yet in picking this one.

Strengths:
light
Ultegra group
good ride
nice components for everything
stiff on accelerations on climbs
not as common as other bikes
well put together

Weaknesses:
thin tubing, be careful of dents
not real smooth joints, can see welds, but they appear of good quality
no local dealer

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