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  • Fisaplisap
    Fisaplisap Posts: 10 Forumite
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    Benners123 wrote: »
    Hello everyone,

    I am on the lookout for a new bike. I cycle 5 times a week to and from work which is about 6.5 miles in total a day. My current bike is a hand me down from a family member, is too small for me and is over 15 years old so it starting to break.

    Where is a good place to get a new bike from? I was wondering if you could get a decent bike second hand? or is it better to bite the bullet with a place like Halfords? Do I have to pay for them to assemble it for me?

    Open for all options. Have about £150-£225 to spend and would prefer quality over cheapness. I have been advised the best type of bike for my activity is Hybrid, due to the concrete paths and roads which I cycle on.

    Look forward to your suggestions!
    Does your work have a cycle to work scheme?
    Consider a cyclocross bike. It's like a road bike with 'knobblier tyres'- great for whizzing along roads/pavements but great for off road stuff too. So cycle to work nearly as quickly as a road bike then have a cheap weekend day out by using it to cycle through a forest/park/hill!
  • Fisaplisap
    Fisaplisap Posts: 10 Forumite
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    Also, I spent AGES researching and ended up with a Boardman cyclocross from Halfords. Their service from beginning to end was great.
  • Nasqueron
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    Fisaplisap wrote: »
    Also, I spent AGES researching and ended up with a Boardman cyclocross from Halfords. Their service from beginning to end was great.

    Very much the exception from what I see on bike groups, backwards forks, returning bikes with bolts missing etc. I'd buy parts from Halfords but wouldn't let them within a barge pole of my bike
  • RichardD1970
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    Nasqueron wrote: »
    Very much the exception from what I see on bike groups, backwards forks, returning bikes with bolts missing etc. I'd buy parts from Halfords but wouldn't let them within a barge pole of my bike

    They do exist :j

    Our local small Halfords (shop only) has an excellent young man in charge of the bikes and I didn't hesitate to leave my bike in his hands when it needed stuff doing which was beyond my tools and experience.

    But apart from that I agree.
  • FBaby
    FBaby Posts: 18,367 Forumite
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    Between Halfords, Decathlon and Evans, we have found the latter the best all around, the first the absolute worse.
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