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Verenti bikes

Just in: Verenti Kilmeston

SRAM Rival on a £900 bike? We're impressed

Verenti Rhigos 03

Price:

£1400.00

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Verenti Rhigos 03 - riding 1

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Verenti Rhigos 03 - review library

Verenti sounds like a boutique Italian brand that you should have heard of… but haven't. You wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that they had a string of Giro d'Italia victories to their name back in the 1950s… but they didn’t. Verenti is actually the new in-house bike brand from online retail maestros Wiggle – and they’re based in Portsmouth, which is nowhere near the Med.

A day out on the Rhigos+video

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Verenti Rhigos test ride - at the top of the climb

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Verenti Rhigos 03 test ride

Half way up the Rhigos, on a Rhigos, it was clear that the bike is aptly named. Verenti are a company without a back story, the decades of racing history that many of their competitors can draw on. This bike isn't a Galibier or a Mortirolo, with all the memories that those sinews of tarmac can evoke, but it is a proper bike for the hills nonetheless, and a homegrown one too, designed for these shores. The Rhigos is a proper climb, not the longest or the steepest but a challenge and a rewarding one; you might call it good value and that's certainly what you get with the bike.