Fast road bike with discs - £1500 - £2500

RobinB2

I'm looking for a reasonably fast road bike for (mainly) riding around the Peak district and the occasional Alpine trip. This is to replace a 2013 Cube Agree GTC Race. Currently just started looking and obvious contenders would be:

Giant TCR Disc
Focus Cayo Disc
Cube Agree C62 Disc
Cannondale Supersix Disc
Boardman SLR Endurance Disc

Anybody got any other suggestions or practical advice as to what to look at? I suspect all the above would do the job and it's likely to boil down to which fits the best and local availability but interested in any other possible choices

meanredspider

The key thing for me is getting good hydraulic brakes.

If you're up to building a bike, there are some great frame deals about and then you don't "waste" money on wheels and saddles etc that tend to be replaced over time.

kajjal

meanredspider wrote:

The key thing for me is getting good hydraulic brakes.

If you're up to building a bike, there are some great frame deals about and then you don't "waste" money on wheels and saddles etc that tend to be replaced over time.

This is very good advice, my bike has the br785 brakes which were based on the very successful m785 XT mountain bike brakes which work very well.

luv2ride

Here I go again. https://www.cycledivision.co.uk/scott-2 ... 8?___SID=U
Now only available in 54cm, but great bike at a great price (with R785 hydro brifters, calipers and ice tech rotors). I have one - they are seriously underrated....

A LOT of bike reduced from £2,600 to £1,600. You could use the spare cash on some tasty carbon hoops, though the stock disc wheels are already a good weight @ 1.5 kg

RobinB2

Thanks for the suggestions - a frame build sounds interesting as I'd likely be swapping the stock wheels anyway

apreading

I dont get the idea of a frame build. So many times I have seen bargains posted on here where the price for a complete bike is little more or sometimes even less than the price of the groupset that comes with it. So you are getting far better value that way.

tazmon

Luv2ride wrote:

Here I go again. https://www.cycledivision.co.uk/scott-2 ... 8?___SID=U
Now only available in 54cm, but great bike at a great price (with R785 hydro brifters, calipers and ice tech rotors). I have one - they are seriously underrated....

A LOT of bike reduced from £2,600 to £1,600. You could use the spare cash on some tasty carbon hoops, though the stock disc wheels are already a good weight @ 1.5 kg

Picked one of these up after seeing your suggestion - thank you!

Now thinking about swapping out the Shimano for a SRAM red/force groupset mix plus some Hunt Carbon50s.