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Need a new Road Bike for £250 to £300 MAX

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  • October 11, 2016 at 8:18 pm #26379
    Waynester

    Hi Guys

    Im selling my Red 2010 Carrera Virtuoso bike,  Really want a new one,  can’t afford more than £350, will just be doing trips to the Gym and a couple of weekends a month cycling to keep fit lol!

     

    I’m 6 foot 3, so what bike size would you recommend? and for my budget, what bike choices do I have?

     

    my Carrera from new has never been great, gears dont felt right, kept on slipping, bit cheap and nasty maybe, although that cost me £329 when I bought it lol it’s been serviced lots but not ridden a great deal, but getting the cycling bug now

     

    thanks 

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  • November 8, 2016 at 10:31 am #879895
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    Scotsmanincumbria

    If you are still looking for
    If you are still looking for a road bike I have my Trek 1.5 Alpha for sale. 56 cm frame, Tiagra triple cranksets, tiagra rear mech all in good working order £330 ono.

    October 14, 2016 at 7:13 pm #879893
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    Jack Osbourne snr

    There are hundreds of cheap
    There are hundreds of cheap bikes on gumtree for mostly one of two reasons:

    1. They bought a bike to try cycling. They got hooked and went upgrade happy
    2. They bought a bike to try cycling. They went out once, wobbled about for three miles, sweated a bit, got cut up by a minicab and put the bike straight on Gumtree.

    If you look on gumtree you’ll find millions of bits of entry level sports gear that people bought and didn’t give a fair crack of the whip.

    I bought my son a Triban 500 a few weeks ago as his Frog flat bar is too small and he wanted to try a road bike.

    It got thrown on the deck about 15 times over a two hour period until he started get used to the brakes/saddle/new riding position/wobbly skinny tyres etc. After multiple tantrums and a bit of bike adjustment he finally started to relax on the bike.

    This weekend we had another couple of tantrums over how to change gear using a brifter.

    Last night he made me promise to take him out on it every day in the October break.

    Where kids throw bikes on the deck, Adults throw bikes on gumtree.

    October 14, 2016 at 6:41 pm #879891
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    bendertherobot

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/verenti-technique-tiagra-2016-ex-demo/

    See if one of those is your size and pay a few quid more. Hmm, just seen your 6ft 3. These are 52 so no good for you. That said, is your current bike the right size? Looks very small.

    Here’s another nice one. More than you want to pay mind.

     

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/verenti-technique-sora-2016/

    October 14, 2016 at 2:07 pm #879889
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    Jack Osbourne snr

    Waynester wrote:

    Waynester wrote:

    Because I want a bike to ride and take to a shop to be serviced,  I don’t have the time to spend taking bikes to bits, I’m not the slightest bit mechanically minded lol

     

    I’m self employed and work long hours,  including weekends as a professional musician 

    If you’re a professional musician, you are morally obliged to keep the virtuoso!

    If you want a new bike, look at the B’Twin (s) suggested at the start of this thread.

    As I’ve said above, if you want to spend even less cash and get a bike that FEELS like new, take the virtuoso to a decent bike shop ( not one of the chain stores) and get it serviced.

    I suspect that all it needs AT MOST is new cables, maybe a new chain, the gears adjusted and possibly the wheels given a quick truing. I honestly believe it will feel like a new bike.

    The big chainring looks only very slightly worn so from the 4 teeth visible in the photo, I’d say the bike was very new in mileage terms.

    As general advice, it’s worth remembering that cables and chains are consumable items and need replacement when they start to fail. Gears can be affected by changes in cable tension and do need adjusting over time.

    Once you have the bike given a full service getting it retuned and consumables replaced as required will only cost you a few quid over a year.

    October 14, 2016 at 1:22 pm #879887
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    Luxtrundler

    Apart from potentially

    Apart from potentially removing the thumb blob shifters, which I know from experience can be a pain, I can’t see a replacement being a massive improvement on this, once the gears properly adjusted and potentially a new chain.  Chances are the gear cable tension needs a slight adjustment and maybe the limit screws tweaking.  A bike shop would have this done while you wait.

    So yet another +1 for the service, though I 100% empathise with the burning desire to puchase a new ride.

    October 14, 2016 at 11:27 am #879885
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    Waynester

    Because I want a bike to ride

    Because I want a bike to ride and take to a shop to be serviced,  I don’t have the time to spend taking bikes to bits, I’m not the slightest bit mechanically minded lol

     

    I’m self employed and work long hours,  including weekends as a professional musician 

    October 13, 2016 at 7:12 pm #879883
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    Jack Osbourne snr

    It’s a perfectly useable road
    It’s a perfectly useable road bike. Take it to an independent bike shop in your area and get them to give it a service.

    Should be no more than 60 quid to get what will feel like a new bike.

    October 12, 2016 at 7:58 pm #879881
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    Waynester

    Brakes 

    Brakes 

    October 12, 2016 at 7:56 pm #879879
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    Waynester

    Gear set

    Gear set

    October 12, 2016 at 7:55 pm #879877
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    Waynester

    Another pic

    Another pic

    October 12, 2016 at 7:53 pm #879875
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    Waynester

    Few more pics, I don’t know

    Few more pics, I don’t know anything about bikes or how good the current stuff on it is

     

     

    October 12, 2016 at 7:33 pm #879873
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    Waynester

    Gave my Carrera a wash today,

    Gave my Carrera a wash today, not bad for an 8 year old bike, but want someat better still… gears still sound “tickety tick” when changing

    October 12, 2016 at 5:38 pm #879871
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    mike the bike

     

     

    Go immediately to edinburghbicycle.com, where you will find something tough and handsome for similar money.  They are very, very good to deal with.

    October 12, 2016 at 4:13 pm #879869
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    StraelGuy

    I agree to an extent. My

    I agree to an extent. My winter bike was bought via the C2W scheme for £700. It has a very nice full chromoly frame and Sora groupset but the wheels were cheap Chinese no-name garbage and got replaced by a set of Aksiums pretty quickly. 

    October 12, 2016 at 3:58 pm #879867
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    CStar
    Waynester wrote:
    I’m looking for a brand new bike really, but thanks 

    For £300 you’re not going to get much from a new bike. At that price you get cheap, heavy chinese made components  like on the Carerra you’ve already got and you’ve seen the issues with that.

    Remember it’s not how bling your bike looks, but how you feel riding it. If it is heavy and falls apart, cycling rapidly loses its appeal.  Good quality lasts.  My daughter rides a Boardman Comp whose frame is old, chipped and beaten, but mechanically it is excellent and she flies round the town with a grin on her face.

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