which bike

McQueen
McQueen Posts: 16
edited July 2012 in MTB buying advice
which bike would you guys go for i am planning on doing the north east coast to coast ie sunderland to whitehaven

which bike would you go for i was planning on doing it on a road bike but had a change of mind




my work i have just found out do a bike to work scheme, but i cant apply till later in the year as they just do it every six months.

have decided to go for a mountain rather than road bike, too many nutter car drivers on road/plus been doing alot of research and bulk of coast too coast is old railway lines.

I can get upto 1000pound in budget but and i would pay monthly but finances are tight so i am going to limit myself too 500 so i aint paying 70-100pm out on a bike.

What are you guys thoughts on these

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/sco ... e-ec030848

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/kon ... e-ec034482

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/gt/ ... e-ec030573


I dont think at the minute at 100k body weight plus i am build for a road bike just quite yet

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  • chrisjnr19
    chrisjnr19 Posts: 231
    Apparently none of the bikes you have listed exist.

    Take a look at Paul's Cycles, this Aspect 35 has a pretty decent spec for the money:
    http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/products.p ... 1b0s2p3025
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  • McQueen
    McQueen Posts: 16
    edited July 2012
    lol

    i was looking at the scott aspect 40 £459

    Kona Fire Mountain 2012 Mountain Bike £495.00

    or GT Avalanche 3 2012 Mountain Bike

    £499.99


    dont know why the links from evans i posted didnt work
  • Chunkers1980
    Chunkers1980 Posts: 8,035
    I'd look at a RockRider from Decathlon
  • Briggo
    Briggo Posts: 3,537
    Chunkers1980 wrote:
    I'd look at a RockRider from Decathlon

    I thought the OP was purchasing through Evans because of the cycle 2 work scheme, but then it does say how he can't join it at this time. It's not exactly a very well worded post.

    Confused.com
  • estampida
    estampida Posts: 1,008
    some here to consider

    http://www.winstanleysbikes.co.uk/index.html
  • McQueen
    McQueen Posts: 16
    I am going to go through the cycle to work scheme but my work are useless and i have just missed the deadline

    They unfortunately only do the scheme twice a year i missed the may deadline next one is in 3-4 months time
  • Briggo
    Briggo Posts: 3,537
    McQueen wrote:
    I am going to go through the cycle to work scheme but my work are useless and i have just missed the deadline

    They unfortunately only do the scheme twice a year i missed the may deadline next one is in 3-4 months time

    So why are you looking now?
  • McQueen
    McQueen Posts: 16
    is it a crime to look now i apologise
  • Chunkers1980
    Chunkers1980 Posts: 8,035
    I think the point was that things change a lot in 1/3 of a year, more of this years stuff will be sold cheaper.

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