New Bike advice

Fisaplisap

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

Also, I spent AGES researching and ended up with a Boardman cyclocross from Halfords. Their service from beginning to end was great.

Nasqueron

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

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

Between Halfords, Decathlon and Evans, we have found the latter the best all around, the first the absolute worse.