Dan_h
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Reading, UK
About a month ago I found out I was being made redundant, cue much stressing and panicking about finding a new job. Fortunately I now have a new job lined up to start the week after next. This leaves me with 2 things...
(1) A week and a bit to do lots of cycling (hope the weather stays like this).
(2) Enough redundancy money left over to replace my Littlewoods Special bike (which after costing about £200 and having done over 5k miles is looking a bit tired!).
So my dilemma is what bike to buy. My current bike is this...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vittesse-Sp...sr_1_1?s=sports&ie=UTF8&qid=1332520002&sr=1-1
So pretty much anything will be a huge step up. The problem I am finding is that I look at bikes in the local shops and I kind of like all of them, I think I would be happy with any one of them! I have also sat on a few and gone up and down the road and they all feel so different to what I am used to that I find it hard to know which to choose. I have the following list drawn up at various prices that are roughly within budget...
Fuji Newest 1.0
Cannondale CAAD 8 Sora
Cannondale Synapse Sora
Felt F85
Bianchi Via Nerone 7 Sora
felt Z85
Fuji Roubaix 2.0
To be honest the last two are a little over budget, but not so much that wine and chocolates wont calm the other half enough that she overlooks that ;-)
If anyone has any experience of any of these, positive or negative that would be very cool. I think this is one dilemma I am going to enjoy resolving!
(1) A week and a bit to do lots of cycling (hope the weather stays like this).
(2) Enough redundancy money left over to replace my Littlewoods Special bike (which after costing about £200 and having done over 5k miles is looking a bit tired!).
So my dilemma is what bike to buy. My current bike is this...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vittesse-Sp...sr_1_1?s=sports&ie=UTF8&qid=1332520002&sr=1-1
So pretty much anything will be a huge step up. The problem I am finding is that I look at bikes in the local shops and I kind of like all of them, I think I would be happy with any one of them! I have also sat on a few and gone up and down the road and they all feel so different to what I am used to that I find it hard to know which to choose. I have the following list drawn up at various prices that are roughly within budget...
Fuji Newest 1.0
Cannondale CAAD 8 Sora
Cannondale Synapse Sora
Felt F85
Bianchi Via Nerone 7 Sora
felt Z85
Fuji Roubaix 2.0
To be honest the last two are a little over budget, but not so much that wine and chocolates wont calm the other half enough that she overlooks that ;-)
If anyone has any experience of any of these, positive or negative that would be very cool. I think this is one dilemma I am going to enjoy resolving!