BenScoobert
Senior Member
- Location
- Halifax
Hi
My 1st post on the forum, firstly a little background and why I'm posting. I've had many bikes during my childhood, up to about 17 years old, then last month I was givien a ridgeback mx4 mountain bike by a friend, I started following my brother on his hybrid, I say following rather than riding with as he is fitter and on a hybrid so he always got there much earlier than me. I took a bit of a fall off it a couple of weeks ago, I'd forgotten how much that hurt since I was a kid, landed on rough ground and took a heavy hit in my kidneys and ribs. No long term damage done anyways. So after that little escapade offroad I though better to stick to the tacmac and ride WITH my brother.
Then by some magical coinsidence my workplace offered the cycle to work scheme. Which brings us to today, after a 16 year gap from cycling there are many new things I have to learn. Also to choose the right bike.
The deal they offer is for a bike with value of £1000 or less, which they claim costs me £661 after the benefits etc.
There are so many bikes to choose from, I could just pick a £1000 bike and hope for the best but that would be silly. So I came here to ask for a little advice and guidance.
http://www.cyclesolu...s%20or%20Unisex
Here is link to a narrowed down list
I've filtered out the womens, offroad, cheaper bikes, but it still leaves me with 53 choices.
So I guess thats as far as I got, any help from here needs to be from people more knowledgable than myself, any help is greatly appreciated.
The other issue is that I'd wondered if they inflate the starting price and I may actually be better off shopping elsewhere.
Thanks
Ben
My 1st post on the forum, firstly a little background and why I'm posting. I've had many bikes during my childhood, up to about 17 years old, then last month I was givien a ridgeback mx4 mountain bike by a friend, I started following my brother on his hybrid, I say following rather than riding with as he is fitter and on a hybrid so he always got there much earlier than me. I took a bit of a fall off it a couple of weeks ago, I'd forgotten how much that hurt since I was a kid, landed on rough ground and took a heavy hit in my kidneys and ribs. No long term damage done anyways. So after that little escapade offroad I though better to stick to the tacmac and ride WITH my brother.
Then by some magical coinsidence my workplace offered the cycle to work scheme. Which brings us to today, after a 16 year gap from cycling there are many new things I have to learn. Also to choose the right bike.
The deal they offer is for a bike with value of £1000 or less, which they claim costs me £661 after the benefits etc.
There are so many bikes to choose from, I could just pick a £1000 bike and hope for the best but that would be silly. So I came here to ask for a little advice and guidance.
http://www.cyclesolu...s%20or%20Unisex
Here is link to a narrowed down list
I've filtered out the womens, offroad, cheaper bikes, but it still leaves me with 53 choices.
So I guess thats as far as I got, any help from here needs to be from people more knowledgable than myself, any help is greatly appreciated.
The other issue is that I'd wondered if they inflate the starting price and I may actually be better off shopping elsewhere.
Thanks
Ben