Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I have just bought an Apollo Voyager for £140 from Halford and reading this has slightly worried me!
I fully admit I know nothing about bikes. To summarise I am 33 years old and physically very fit, through a combination of football and running, but until today I hadn’t ridden a bike since I was 13.
I bought the Apollo Voyager so I can cycle from my house to the station, around 2.5miles, to catch the train to my work, and then do the same journey home. So all in all I will be doing about 5 miles a day, probably four times a week. The journey is quite flat and not too taxing.
To be honest I didn’t want to spend more than about £200 on this bike, as:
A) I might get fed up with the cycling and go back to driving straight to work as I used to do (although I hasten to add I am determined not to let this happen!)
B) As I said this is my first bike in 20 years and I don’t intend using it for more than a straightforward journey to the station at the moment. This might change in the future, and if it does I will look at spending a bit more.
Have I made a real mistake in buying this bike? I may graduate onto something better in around 6 months or so, and if I do I will choose it much more carefully and go to somewhere like
Decathlon, not Halfords!
Also my dad is considering getting a bike for short journeys, so in six months or so I could always pass this down to him (he is 72, so I don’t think he will be going too far on it!)