Steel framed touring bike

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Landsurfer

Veteran
I’m in the market for a steel framed touring bike under £1k. My current tourer is a mixture of Jamis Aurora frame and SPA components.
The Aurora does not seem to be available in the UK anymore.
I paid £700 for the Aurora from Evans and its a price area i’m comfortable with but will go to £1k if i use the cyclescheme at work.
Any suggestions ... ?
 

vickster

Legendary Member
New or used?
Was the Aurora £700 RRP...how long ago?
Unfortunately you can barely buy a new drop bar bike for £700 new these days it seems

Spa cheapest steel drop bar tourer is around £1100
https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m1b0s225p2983/SPA-CYCLES-725-Steel-Tourer

Winstanleys have this for £750 but only small sizes
https://winstanleysbikes.co.uk/ridg...gJuIPD_BwE#ridgeback-voyage-2019-bike-x-small

£1100 for the 2021
https://winstanleysbikes.co.uk/ridgeback-voyage-2021-bike

you don’t say what size, but there’s a new Tour de Fer on eBay in large (would need to be 6ft+)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genesis-...706695?hash=item4dbbc49e07:g:8YQAAOSwFsdgBu-P

Or maybe look for a used one?
 
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If this rain and crap weather doesn’t stop you can have my Mason !! :angry: Only bike seeing light of day is the MTB :cry:
 

biggs682

Touch it up and ride it
Location
Northamptonshire
With that budget talk to Woodrup or another frame builder
 

the snail

Guru
Location
Chippenham
Ridgeback are good too. Do Jamis not do a budget tourer now? - they generally seem good value. Worth looking at used tourers too, quite often cheap clean bikes on ebay etc.
 
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