Basic Road bike

"Doki" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I think it might be an idea to get a basic road bike so that I can go on a
few club rides and hope to keep up. I'll be wanting indexed shifting, and
something that can put up with 15 stone of me wobbling around on it. Will
that £200 bike I've seen mentioned on here do, or are there better second
hand options?

I posted stuff about this Saturday. At the risk of boring folks, here it is
again.

www.halesowencycles.co.uk/framesetroad.htm

Not 200ukp but 270. Very good value.

John

Eatmorepies said:

I posted stuff about this Saturday. At the risk of boring folks, here
it is again.

www.halesowencycles.co.uk/framesetroad.htm

Not 200ukp but 270. Very good value.

That site requires a user name & password.

~PB

Doki said:

I think it might be an idea to get a basic road bike so that I can go

on a

Quoted message said:

few club rides and hope to keep up. I'll be wanting indexed shifting,

and

Quoted message said:

something that can put up with 15 stone of me wobbling around on it.

Will

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that £200 bike I've seen mentioned on here do, or are there better

second

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hand options?

You should be able to get a solid secondhand road bike for £200. May
not be STi/Ergo equiped nor the lightest machine but hey, you want
basic. I would prefer a good basic bike with decent components than a
cheap bike with low end components, especially for a second (or third)
bike. For £200 I would look for secondhand rather than a new budget
model.

"Pete Biggs" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Eatmorepies said:

I posted stuff about this Saturday. At the risk of boring folks, here
it is again.

www.halesowencycles.co.uk/framesetroad.htm

Not 200ukp but 270. Very good value.

That site requires a user name & password.

~PB

I went straight to it - it never asked me for a password. I googled for
halesowen cycles to find it.

John

Eatmorepies said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I posted stuff about this Saturday. At the risk of boring folks,
here it is again.

www.halesowencycles.co.uk/framesetroad.htm

Not 200ukp but 270. Very good value.

That site requires a user name & password.

Quoted message said:

I went straight to it - it never asked me for a password. I googled
for halesowen cycles to find it.

It's working now. Did ask me for a password last time. Strange.

Dawes Giro 200 seems to be the £270 job -- looks all right, except the
flat bars spoil it, I think.

~PB

quote='Pete Biggs'Eatmorepies said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I posted stuff about this Saturday. At the risk of boring folks,
here it is again.

www.halesowencycles.co.uk/framesetroad.htm

Not 200ukp but 270. Very good value.

That site requires a user name & password.

Quoted message said:

I went straight to it - it never asked me for a password. I googled
for halesowen cycles to find it.

It's working now. Did ask me for a password last time. Strange.

Dawes Giro 200 seems to be the £270 job -- looks all right, except the
flat bars spoil it, I think.

~PB[/QUOTE]

I have a Carrera Virtuoso for my 2nd bike, I used it as a 1st bike last summer and it was faultless, a brilliant little bike. Once ive bought some clipless pedals for it I will be using it as a winter bike for training and keeping fit. I bought it from Halfords last spring, and i was dead lucky as I only had to pay £150 for it, complete bargain. They stated that it was found out in the back of the warehouse and been forgotten about, thats why they was selling it off so cheap not that there was anything wrong with it. I think they normally retail at £250+, might be a newer model now. Reccomended!!