A road bike for £500 ?

gb155

Are they any good ones at that price point ?

I can find either a

Fuji Newest 3.0 2009

Or

Specialized Allez 16 2010

But are either actually any good for me ?

Aguila

Maybe look at second hand too??

Or could you do cycle to work scheme? Then get up to £1000 over a year minus tax and vat.

If not could you stretch to this:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Focus ... 360037598/

Components look great for the price.

Gets very good reviews, I have a focus cayo and Wiggle were great with buying it. They ask you for a whole bunch of measurements and mine was set up perfectly. I dont know if they still do it but they used to have this arrangement where you could ride it for a week and if you didn't like it they would come and take it back, you just had to promise to keep the (enormous!) box it came in in case.

gb155

Aguila wrote:

Maybe look at second hand too??

Or could you do cycle to work scheme? Then get up to £1000 over a year minus tax and vat.

If not could you stretch to this:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Focus ... 360037598/

Components look great for the price.

Gets very good reviews, I have a focus cayo and Wiggle were great with buying it. They ask you for a whole bunch of measurements and mine was set up perfectly. I dont know if they still do it but they used to have this arrangement where you could ride it for a week and if you didn't like it they would come and take it back, you just had to promise to keep the (enormous!) box it came in in case.

Stuggling second hand to find something in my size.

Cant do C2W till next year

That looks nice but my original budget was £450, Its stretching it to go to £500 but £600 is a step too far, Thanks for the suggestions tho.

cjcp

Gaz - what size frame you after?

gb155

cjcp wrote:

Gaz - what size frame you after?

Minimum of 58cm mate, Im 6 foot 3

cjcp

Will drop you a PM.

gb155

cjcp wrote:

Will drop you a PM.

cheers man

heftyrider

If you can stretch another £35 I'd recommend this http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/giant-de ... 45013.html

gb155

heftyrider wrote:

If you can stretch another £35 I'd recommend this http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/giant-de ... 45013.html

£575 isnt an exta £35 over £500

prawny

gb155 wrote:

heftyrider wrote:

If you can stretch another £35 I'd recommend this http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/giant-de ... 45013.html

£575 isnt an exta £35 over £500

It is if you're using a phone keypad 8)

oscarbudgie

There's a Decathlon b'twin road bike for £499 which doesn't look too bad at all - if you don't mind buying from a chain.

oscarbudgie

I just checked and the Decathlon one is the b'Twin Sport 2 - you get Sora, carbon forks and (amazingly for a 500 squids bike) carbon seat stays.