Best 2nd hand TT bike on a budget?

christiandransfield
christiandransfield Posts: 127
edited May 2016 in Road buying advice
Hey everyone,

I'm looking at buying a TT bike, after doing a 24-minute 10-mile TT on my road bike a few weeks ago, and friends suggesting I take it up.

Unfortunately, I don't have much of a budget, so wondered what people think the best bike/frame one can get for upto £1000 (but preferably closer to £500) is.

Any advice would be much-appreciated!

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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Ridley Cheetah frame/forks/carbon aero seat post for £265 from CRC are really nice, brilliant value (down from £1,000) and then you build up with sale bits - mine needs some brake cables and save for the deep rims I had in the garage cost me less than £500.

    I may get around to taking a pic.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • andcp
    andcp Posts: 644
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    I may get around to taking a pic.

    No you won't! We're still waiting for the Merckx to get finished!! :wink:

    Back O/T, I don't know what the 'best' is, but have a look through here: http://www.timetriallingforum.co.uk/ind ... wforum=116
    They're a pretty friendly lot to the TT forum, get yourself registered.
    "It must be true, it's on the internet" - Winston Churchill
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Andcp wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    I may get around to taking a pic.

    No you won't! We're still waiting for the Merckx to get finished!! :wink:

    Back O/T, I don't know what the 'best' is, but have a look through here: http://www.timetriallingforum.co.uk/ind ... wforum=116
    They're a pretty friendly lot to the TT forum, get yourself registered.

    Touché! :)

    Well apart from adjusting the rear mech it's now finished - will post a piccie this weekend if I get a chance.

    May even do the two pictures at once - now that would be a shock!
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • andcp
    andcp Posts: 644
    DO IT! POST THE BL**DY PICTURES!
    "It must be true, it's on the internet" - Winston Churchill
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Andcp wrote:
    DO IT! POST THE BL**DY PICTURES!


    Oh, all right then. This weekend. Promise.

    Do you want piccie said of my new Pegeot/Vitus beautiful machine s well or shall I finish that first?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • JesseD
    JesseD Posts: 1,961
    Bikes in jersey in Channel Islands being sold by a mate but he may post.

    He bought from another mate who works in a bike shop and bought it new, it's been used around 10 times.

    http://www.ccc.je/for-sale-wanted
    Obsessed is a word used by the lazy to describe the dedicated!
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    I picked up a Felt B2 frame with fork, seatpost and outer cables for £200 off eBay. Spent another £150 buying front and rear mech, brake levers and calipers, bar end shifters, chain and bottom bracket cups and the rest I took from my parts bin / moved from other bikes. A very nice TT bike for £350 outlay. If you keep an eye on eBay and are patient then a good deal will come up sooner or later. I would have considered a full bike but I ride Campag and Campag equipped TT bikes are pretty rare...
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41991871@N ... otostream/
  • antonyfromoz
    antonyfromoz Posts: 482
    For some reason I have always liked these bikes and there is a fair discount on this model if the size suits (although perhaps it might not be as aero as some of the more extreme TT bikes around): http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/cube ... prod128150
  • Grill
    Grill Posts: 5,610
    Cervelo P2 is the right answer.
    English Cycles V3 | Cervelo P5 | Cervelo T4 | Trek Domane Koppenberg
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Might be worth just getting some decent clip on bars, a funny hat and a power meter to see how your first season goes before lumping in? If you get a bit bored riding TTs then you could always flog on the bars/helmet and keep the PM.
  • MikeBrew
    MikeBrew Posts: 814
    Look on ebay.. All sorts on there. I've been half tempted by some Cannondale Slice models @ around £600-£800. I don't really need one though.... Let me re phrase that in case I see another cheap tidy one : I really don't need one ! There, that should do it. :)

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