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kawakid |
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kawakid World Chat Champion
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Posted: 00:01 - 23 Mar 2013 Post subject: Mountain bike for ~ £300 |
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Not cycled in 20 + years and I would like to know if it is for me.
I'd rather have a mountain bike as I live 40 seconds walk from some woods, where I regular see mountain bikers whilst walking my dog.
Where I live Halifax, is very very very hilly. Think of outside dry ski slopes and steep steep hills.
Anyway I thought I would like to try it.
I don't want to spend a lot and then find out it's not for me.
On an exercise thing, I am fairly active, walking at least 5 miles every day. And I probably do around 4 hours a week on an exercise bike. But I know the gradients will be a killer.
I don't want to do 2nd hand.
Looking at bikes, I would prefer disk brakes. But at this budget perhaps this is too much to ask for.
I've bought a Mongoose before from Evans for my son and was impressed with their service and value for money. So I am happy to buy from them again. I am also fairly handy with a spanner.
What can anyone recommend for my budget, please remember I just want to see if cycling is for me. I am not going to pump £800 in to something, that might just stay at the back of the garage for the next 2 decades. ____________________ I've a twin and a 4. |
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I bought an Ex-display Trek 4300 for £300ish a few years back. Very pleased with it, much lighter and more robust than the raleigh I had before it.
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Posted: 21:54 - 23 Mar 2013 Post subject: |
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Want a £300 bike which shares many of its groupset with an £800 Specialized.
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kawakid World Chat Champion
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G The Voice of Reason
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Do not touch Halfords Apollo brand.
Their Carrera and Boardman brands generally offer decent value for money.
In some cases they use frame designs from older models of big-name makes.
Often owned both and been happy with them.
Another one for 'go second hand'. If you're not sure if you'll like it; even more reason to, as a £300 second hand bike will still be worth £300 in a few months (probably more, I suspect the market this weekend is pretty low if your weather is like mine just up the road.)
If you'd had your £300 to spend at the end of 2012 season sales, you'd have had a chance of getting a decent spec bike for that - possibly at second hand price or below. But there's not many good offers on now.
It's over your budget and a '29er', but this seems a reasonable deal considering what else is out there:
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=95400
29er means it's got a bit bigger wheels - this should mean it 'rolls' over obstacles a bit more easily.
Or this from Halfords:
https://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_810619_langId_-1_categoryId_165499 |
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If you can stretch another 60-70 quid, the Carrera Vulcan won some magazine tests, not sure if it was MBUK or something, but I was tempted to get that.
If you DID go 2nd hand, you'd be able to pick up some specialised hardrocks with discs for a pretty decent price of around £250-300. People who have them swear by them ____________________ The Tot 2007 Yamaha R1 4C8 2002 Yamaha FZS1000 Fazer &
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Bought a Carrera Vengeance from Halfords around this time last year having not ridden a push bike (not including spinning bikes) for about 5 years and completed the Trans Pennine Trail in 4 days on it. Can't recommend it highly enough. Gave me no problems over the 4 days. We must have had about 15 punctures in a group of 12, lots of other issues but I genuinely didn't stop once.
Smooth gears, lightweight, disc brakes, really wonderful bike. It was about £300 when I bought it so could probably picked up a used one for less now.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 11 years, 11 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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