Can you help me decide?

glasgowbhoy
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Can you help me decide on my first road bike that I'll be using for road racing and triathlon events.
Have read through a lot of threads on here recently
Have been riding a trek 6000 mountain bike with road tyres about 120 miles a week to and from work for a year. I really want a road bike now.
The bikes I have been looking at are all in the 500-600 price bracket
Specialized Allez. (am i better with the 18 or the 24?)
Trek 1.2
Focus Variado
Boardman Comp (although the Halfords thing really puts me off)
Thanks in advance
John
Have read through a lot of threads on here recently
Have been riding a trek 6000 mountain bike with road tyres about 120 miles a week to and from work for a year. I really want a road bike now.
The bikes I have been looking at are all in the 500-600 price bracket
Specialized Allez. (am i better with the 18 or the 24?)
Trek 1.2
Focus Variado
Boardman Comp (although the Halfords thing really puts me off)
Thanks in advance
John
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Some deals starting to appear - maybe worth checking out? I just got a sale booklet from Evans in the post yesterday. Some good deals on eg Scott and Cannondale if its what you are looking for.0
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thanks Ian,
I thought the Scotts and Cannondales were starting at well above the £600 mark though?0 -
Boardmans the best spec for your money
As your first road bike its essential to get it fitted correctly so I'd forget the Focus
You'll be better off with a double not a compact for racing but doubt any bike in this price range will have that.
How about looking at this one aswell? http://www.evanscycles.com/products/fuj ... e-ec0180890 -
I have a Boardman Comp, and would say it's a damned good bike IMHO.
But I am able to do virtually all my own servicing - anything I can't do (which isn't much) I would take it to a LBS, not Halfords.Cycling weakly0 -
batch78 wrote:Boardmans the best spec for your money
As your first road bike its essential to get it fitted correctly so I'd forget the Focus
You'll be better off with a double not a compact for racing but doubt any bike in this price range will have that.
How about looking at this one aswell? http://www.evanscycles.com/products/fuj ... e-ec018089
Cheers, don't know much about Fuji but the components all look good.
Call me shallow but I'm still pretty seduced by the framestlye and set up of those Allez.....
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/spe ... e-ec0195460 -
Also have the possibility of this if it's still for sale at around £450-500
2009 model Giant Defy 2.5 Road Bike,
Size M/L (53.5 cm sloping for up to 6' tall) grey/ black/ white frame.
Very good condition.
Used for training only 1000 (mainly dry) miles max.
New tyres fitted0 -
I've just recently opted for a Cube Streamer. Got this for £1050 with full Ultegra spec. Just waiting for the c2w voucher to come through before I get it....damn those Royal Mail strikes.0
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If you can use cycle to work then you're money will go loads further.
I think Cycling + reviewed the Fuji recently - maybe look for it in tht reviews section on here - sure they had nothing bad to say about it.
(All the best for 12:30 tomorrow, try to keep the score down, we're smarting a bit after our euro-disaster)0 -
fatandwheezing wrote:If you can use cycle to work then you're money will go loads further.
I think Cycling + reviewed the Fuji recently - maybe look for it in tht reviews section on here - sure they had nothing bad to say about it.
(All the best for 12:30 tomorrow, try to keep the score down, we're smarting a bit after our euro-disaster)
Cheers, but hoping to change jobs in the next 12 months which would mean paying back any savings on that scheme no?
Just hoping for 3 points. We're no great shakes ourselves. Still should have nought to get a decent start to big Toby's first season back in the SPHell0 -
I'm pretty sure you would still make the savings on the instalments you've already made, so if you left after 6 months, you'd have to pay the remainder in full, but you'd still save 20% instead of 40ish.0
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You could prob get a Trek 1.5 09, As its 2010 is out now, phone around and you may get one on the cheap, and they are pretty light 2.0
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The Allez ain't a bad bike, just not best bang for your buck, or particularly geared towards racing.
It will however allow long training rides without breaking you, the compromise is yours!0