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Best bike for racing around £1500
I'm looking to upgrade from my giant Defy 5 to a racier machine for youth races, cries etc. Wheels don't matter as I will be putting my scirocco 35mm on. I've looked at the giant propel advanced 1, would it be recommended or any other suggestions
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Canyon Ultimate AL? Bowman Palace? Kinesis Athlein?
I have a rose xeon rs with 105 groupset and mavic equipe wheels, for £1100 you are probably not at a disadvantage against most bikes you will race against. Being alloy it will probably fare better with crashes too.
I'm loving my Giant Propel, but not sure I'd want to get involved in the hurley burley of racing on it.