first bike - Giant OCR?

Hi All,
Im living in Mount Isa Qld and looking at getting back into road bikes
after an absence of about 15 years. I'm 6'2", 110kgs and medium
unfit ;-)

Have been down to my local bike shop, they have a fair range of bikes
there in the 1k-5k range, but im probably closer to the 1k end of the
spectrum! I have been looking at the Giant OCR1/2/3 range. Some
questions, in no particular order;

Are clip on peddles a big thing?

do these bikes wear well? Am i better off getting the same bike
second hand, for a lot less?

Are these bikes strong enough for someone my weight? Am i going to be
breaking it?

OCR's on ebay are going for 300-800, and displaying RRP's of 2k-3k.
The OCR's in my LBS are all under 1k. What gives?

Thanks,
Shaun

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> Hi All,
> Im living in Mount Isa Qld and looking at getting back into road bikes
> after an absence of about 15 years. I'm 6'2", 110kgs and medium
> unfit ;-)
>
> Have been down to my local bike shop, they have a fair range of bikes
> there in the 1k-5k range, but im probably closer to the 1k end of the
> spectrum! I have been looking at the Giant OCR1/2/3 range. Some
> questions, in no particular order;
>
> Are clip on peddles a big thing?
>
> do these bikes wear well? Am i better off getting the same bike
> second hand, for a lot less?
>
> Are these bikes strong enough for someone my weight? Am i going to be
> breaking it?
>
> OCR's on ebay are going for 300-800, and displaying RRP's of 2k-3k.
> The OCR's in my LBS are all under 1k. What gives?
>
> Thanks,
> Shaun
>

The spec on current OCR3s isn't as high as previous years. They now run the
2200 gear instead of Sora and the forks are steel instead of carbon fibre. I
didn't look through the current spec more than that, but it's not the same
bike. An '06 OCR3 will, I'm guessing, be a rather better bike than a current
one. I don't know what '07 spec was.