Cheap road bikes.

[L14M]

Hello,

As some of you may have seen in my welcome thread i'm after a new bike!
Coming from a MTB to a road bike and being 5,1 i think a 47cm frame should be ok for me. I'm 14 and still growing so I only want a cheap bike as i'll outgrow it and i'm planning to upgrade as stuff falls off it

So this is what i've been looking at:
http://www.bikes2udirect.com/B6118.html
How do you guys think that'll last doing around 30 miles a week? Not for a commute but exersize in the evenings and longer rides on the weekend!
Cheers Liam

 

[BrianEvesham]

Can you stretch the funds to this one?

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/triban-3-a-id_8239800.html

 

[L14M]

Funds in my problem, if i had a chance i'd have a 10k bike . My parents said £100 for xmas. I've managed to offer to pay the extra money but i cannot really pay over £ 70 - 80.

I'd also love the Btwin as i've got a btwin mtb at my holiday house in the Portuguese countryside. I do like that bike, for the price its quite light for a mtb and is quite forgiving on sand blah blah blah!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I was going to suggest Decathlon too. Excellent value for money kit

 

[jowwy]

Funds in my problem, if i had a chance i'd have a 10k bike . My parents said £100 for xmas. I've managed to offer to pay the extra money but i cannot really pay over £ 70 - 80.

I'd also love the Btwin as i've got a btwin mtb at my holiday house in the Portuguese countryside. I do like that bike, for the price its quite light for a mtb and is quite forgiving on sand blah blah blah!

Sell the portugese country house - buy 10k bike with the funds and enjoy it all year round

 

[L14M]

Sell the portugese country house - buy 10k bike with the funds and enjoy it all year round

Ha ha ha, I would but its the parrents!

Liam

 

[smokeysmoo]

Buy cheap buy twice!

However, one exception is the Triban3, but as you can't afford a new one get a 2nd hand one, there should be loads about.

 

[L14M]

I've just come back from halfords. I'm comfortable on a 51 cm frame which i just about fit on

Liam

 

[L14M]

I've found this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Woodworm-Wh...&qid=1385225407&sr=8-1&keywords=woodworm+bike. It looks perfect for me, if the brakes do come swapped the wrong way around i can swap them eaisly. Just wanted to know if anyones ridden one?

Liam

 

[smokeysmoo]

I've found this

It's an unknown quantity Liam, you should be able to find a decent T3 for £200.

 

[sreten]

Hi,

At 5'1" you are too small for any normal 700C road bike to fit well.
Your much more likely to grow into a 700C bike than outgrow it.

However given :
http://www.bikes2udirect.com/B6118.html
And your prepared to live with the lack of standover clearance
and use it with a low saddle, I'd say it first needs compact bars
to reduce the stretch quite a lot, rather than a shorter stem.

rgds, sreten.

 

[L14M]

Ok thanks, that's given me something to think about!

Cheers,
Liam

 

[Cyclist33]

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Hello,

As some of you may have seen in my welcome thread i'm after a new bike!
Coming from a MTB to a road bike and being 5,1 i think a 47cm frame should be ok for me. I'm 14 and still growing so I only want a cheap bike as i'll outgrow it and i'm planning to upgrade as stuff falls off it

So this is what i've been looking at:
http://www.bikes2udirect.com/B6118.html
How do you guys think that'll last doing around 30 miles a week? Not for a commute but exersize in the evenings and longer rides on the weekend!
Cheers Liam

tough question!

as youre still growing, your rate of growth and eventual proportions are unknown entities, this kinda hampers picking a bike of the right size. good idea to go cheap but i would consider asking a road going experience bikey mate to talk you through ebay items and find a good classic bike of a roughly medium size. that way you can make it smaller for now and then enlarge it via longer bits n bobs if you start to shoot up.

im sure for 150£ youd find something good and certainly more interesting than your original link.

stu

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

The butterfly shifters are effing awful. The mech is a cheap one with silver plastic to make it look good. It's just a different branded lower end viking made to look nice from a distance but the chainset is the most awful monkey-metal affair ever...

Highfield Cycles do tend to specialise in the lower end cut-price - I would go 2nd hand any day. Carrera TDF or Virtuoso would be a better but as a used bike (just watch the condition of the wheels)