Best aluminium bike for under £1500

Anonymous

From the feedback I've got from other users, it seems better for a beginner rider to buy a aluminium bike with decent components on it. Can anyone recommend a good spec alu race bike for under the £1500 pound mark?

vespario

Cannondale CAAD 10. You may pick up one for £1100 on web which you could then add some better/lighter wheels. Great reviews. Did better than similar priced carbon bikes!

However the best bike for you at any price is the one that fits and feels the most comfortable!

See if you can test ride?

sloppyschleckonds

'Dale or Canyon AL

Silly Old Hector

You can get a good carbon bike for that price (£99 over - negotiate....) :



But, as ever, I am biased

junglist_matty

Love my Ultimate AL, super comfy and brilliant value!

I know a few guys with CAADs and they are all impressed with them also.


I think depends on what you want, but with the AL or the CAAD you can't go wrong, whichever you choose you'll be happy.

thefog

Giant defy 0 - around £1250 with ultegra.

diamonddog

trailblazer1 wrote:

From the feedback I've got from other users, it seems better for a beginner rider to buy a aluminium bike with decent components on it. Can anyone recommend a good spec alu race bike for under the £1500 pound mark?

What a ridiculous notion, It makes no difference 'beginner' or not if you want carbon get carbon or if you prefer alu get that. £1500 will get a carbon or alu bike with good components.

Anonymous

diamonddog wrote:

trailblazer1 wrote:

From the feedback I've got from other users, it seems better for a beginner rider to buy a aluminium bike with decent components on it. Can anyone recommend a good spec alu race bike for under the £1500 pound mark?

What a ridiculous notion, It makes no difference 'beginner' or not if you want carbon get carbon or if you prefer alu get that. £1500 will get a carbon or alu bike with good components.

Feel exactly the same. Just get a carbon bike with decent components.
Then get some nice wheels in a sale for next spring/summer

cycleclinic

It not about the frame material though. Buy the bike that fits you best. Alumium bikes can feel just a good to ride as carbon ones, sometimes better it all depends on the frame geometry tube types, and the kit used on the bike.

No one material is better than another as better needs to be defined which it has not in this thread and your preference should be for a bike that feels right.

dwanes

Ive got a Giant TCR Composite and would swap it with this:
http://bicyclingaustralia.com.au/2013/1 ... ?page=show

meursault

http://www.epic-cycles.co.uk/Bianchi_Impulso.html



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are two more suggestions

on-yer-bike

condor italia

Anonymous

thecycleclinic wrote:

It not about the frame material though. Buy the bike that fits you best. Alumium bikes can feel just as good to ride as carbon ones, sometimes better it all depends on the frame geometry tube types, and the kit used on the bike.

No one material is better than another as better needs to be defined which it has not in this thread and your preference should be for a bike that feels right.

Your first paragraph seems to contradict the second a little I would say.

Last 3 bikes I/family bought have been aluminium, but this was only due to cost.

Carbon is better than aluminium in a similar way to aluminium being better than steel, but it is better.

Not to say that there are a lot of nice aluminium and steel bikes around.

I wonder if people will be talking about aluminium this way in a few years? I think it will be more like how we now view/talk about steel.

Benjamin Hall

I own a canyon ultimate al and love it, but if i were buying a new bike today I would look very closely at the aluminium sensa trentino at merlin.



£1150ish with ultegra 11 speed and the stock wheels. or £1200 for Aksiums.

personally id buy a set of rs80's (£300) for racing.

Thats £1450 for a good looking light tough frame, very nice kit + race and training wheels.