Just had my bike stolen :( ....buying advice?

easternbhoy

New to the forum, and new to cycling also. Was gettin along famously over the past few months until someone decided to tea leaf my bike today! Pretty gutted, bike was parked in relatively secure area at work and padlocked with decent chain .....

Anyway, I was riding a Specialized hard rock sport...any advice on a sub £300 bike?

Was thinking about...

http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLqrymode.a4p?f_ProductID=9468&f_SupersetQRY=C106&f_SortOrderID=1&f_bct=c003155c002909

http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLqrymode.a4p?f_ProductID=9796&f_SupersetQRY=C106&f_SortOrderID=1&f_bct=c003155c002909

or pushing my budget to this
http://www.dalescycles.com/Giant_XTC_4_5_2008_p/xtc4508.htm

I was using my bike for daily commute and off road at weekends...any advice much appreciated!!

Andy B

a few things here you may wanna look at here:

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12590132

easternbhoy

Andy_B wrote:

a few things here you may wanna look at here:

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12590132

Cheers..should really have scanned the forum before posting!

Brduk

The advice I was given here for a sub £300 was to get one of these;

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=25443

Can't say I regret it, it's a really nice bike with good components, Deore gears & Tora fork, plus it looks fecking nice too!

Meant to add, only about 10 in stock when I purchased 10 days ago...

easternbhoy

Brduk wrote:

The advice I was given here for a sub £300 was to get one of these;

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=25443

Can't say I regret it, it's a really nice bike with good components, Deore gears & Tora fork, plus it looks fecking nice too!

Meant to add, only about 10 in stock when I purchased 10 days ago...

Seems a bargain...will look into those. Cheers

Andy B

That BeOne does look amazing value purely on the specs

Only downside is you can't try the bike for size.