Yet another "New Bike" thread

[garethssmith]

Had a Scott S55 Speedster, but now looking for a new bike, with a budget of £7-800 through a cycle to work (Cyclescheme) and wondered if there's a benefit to choosing an "own brand" with Tiagra gears rather than a branded bike with a Sora set? Restricted to stores with Cyclescheme obviously.

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

Gaz

 

[vickster]

Which stores are you restricted to? When you say own brand, which do you mean? You can get a Giant Defy 2 with Tiagra for £800 and a Cannondale Caad/Synapse I think. It'll be the Specialized and Trek bikes which carry the lower group sets as they need to pay for all their marketing

The fit and frame are the most important things, everything else can be upgraded

 

[garethssmith]

Looked at Evans (closest retailer) and looked at their Pinnacle Tiagra at £750, where the CAAD8/Synapse Tiagra are at £900...

 

[vickster]

I'd get test riding, Evans are pretty good on that score

And maybe up the budget

 

[clockhammer]

+1 for the Defy 2 as vickster has mentioned. £800 with Tiagra, great bike, great reviews, I love mine

 

[garethssmith]

I'll check out the Giant, like you said, good reviews and £100 cheaper than Cannondales

I see my Sunday being taken up by test riding a few

 

[vickster]

Can you wait a month or so? The new models are coming through now, so there may be some deals on the outgoing ones - you may find a discounted bike on 0% finance actually works out cheaper than C2W depending what the end of year payment is - check the numbers with HR

 

[garethssmith]

Cheers, I'll check it out