Boardman Team carbon. Why so many sold after about a year of use?

bikes to work schemes?

yeah i'd go with the bike to work scheme, its seen a rise in second hand bikes for sale, which is a good one, because your getting the bike cheap through the scheme, people are selling them on quite cheap aswell

So they sell to gain from the price difference? Or not a well thought choice?

I don't know how many you've seen and where but bear in mind that it may be the same ten bikes advertised in all the usual specialist places multiple times. Even if it was 100, that would still represent a tiny minority of the total bikes sold. Anyway, whether it's 10 or 100 I'm guessing a fair number will be people who've got the bug and are upgrading and there will of course be people who have fallen by the wayside. Also, I noticed just now @drhysc just commented on twitter, "because they're fed up of the sneering comments from others?" which is sad but possibly true. If it is, it's a shame because they're good value.

I wouldn't say they sell them to gain anything

They sell them to fund this years bike through their work scheme

let's not forget that they shift an awful lot of those bikes, so even if only a small percentage get sold on that's going to be quite a few.

selling your C2W bike after a year isn't as easy these days as many of the contracts are for 3-4 years to take advantage of the lower market value rates you have to pay for the bike after that amount of time.

I sold my first C2W bike when the year was up. Overall I paid about £300 for it and sold it on ebay for £400. Rinse and repeat.

if you sold it after a year under current rules you'd first have to pay a market value payment of either 18% or 25%, depending on the value of your bike.

We tested the Boardman Road pro Carbon a couple of years back, and I think I'm right in saying that then became the current Team Carbon, it was a superb bike really good fun to ride… in fact Trev is probably still riding it.

Can you give me a link to that review? I'm still riding mine and I love it. Wheels need upgrading, but the frame is spot on.

Here you go:

http://road.cc/content/review/11774-boardman-road-pro-carbon

As well as C2W I'd venture that lots of people new to the sport buy Boardman (same goes for Giant and Specialized bikes, especially in sub-£1k bracket). I've seen a fair few adverts on ebay saying "I've only ridden it a few times".

IIRC the Road Pro was ultegra/Sram Force while Team Carbon was 105 or thereabouts and nearer £1100.

Buying a bike is easy.

RIDING it is not.

Hence the number that get sold before long as the owners realise they have to actually pedal it to make it go anywhere.

I bought the road pro with sram brakes fitted and LOVE IT! cannot understand why anybody would want to sell it, unless to upgrade but they then must have trained like stink to improve that much in a year

Thanks Simon!

Hi,
I don't think it's just the carbon framed 'racers' either. I have been lucky to buy two Boardman Pro hybrids for cracking money (compared to new) and all that needs changing to make them a fantastic ride is the tyres (scary detonators) and fitted road cassettes instead of the mountain ratios - cracking. When I bought both they clearly had very little mileage and fitted with carbon cages, computers, good pedals, pumps, locks and even had a new pair of shoes and a helmet thrown in. Same stories accompanied both from 'born again bikers' "it used to be easy when I were a lad but bought this one to get back into it now I have a bit of time and money,,, but pedaling is a lot harder than it used to be". My gain and a caring home promised.
You see the same with the frames for sale, they use the good kit fitted to them on a more 'street cred' frame and they are happier. Shame really as they really are cracking value - could be the same as Nike trainer cred..
Just my t'penneth.

Regards

Trikeman.