what do you get for £899 in 2023?
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Decathlon really do give you a lot in comparison to other bike manufacturers, I have had a few. I bought a used near mint Triban 540 a couple of years ago for £280. It has the 11 speed 105 groupset (rc 500 crank not 105 and adds 100grams), Mavic Aksium wheelset and carbon bladed forks. I love it. It has rim brakes but they work just fine. Previously all my road bikes had mechanical disks i.e. Avid bb7 and Tektro spyre but always were a pain. Also the Aksium wheelset utilise cartridge bearings which for me is a plus. I hate cup and cone bearings and the hassle of keeping them adjusted. So much so I bought another set for my old Claude butler Road bike (9 speed Sora)that I commute to work on.
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900 pounds for that?? That's highway robbery! Love the insight, guys.
If nothing else, I'm super glad to know I spent my money wisely buying second hand.
The brand name "Schwalbe" must be pronounced "shwalbey" not "shwalb" . Same like "Porsche" is not "porsh" but "porschey".
I prefer mechanical disc brakes! Easier maintenance, cheaper, probably lighter.
My first was Cube with sora cost me 850£ in 2011
Yeah entry lvl bike from 700£-1000£
900 pounds for shimano tourney and aluminium fork? I have Sora and carbon fork for much less about 400 pounds. But it's not made by a huge brand
Much better bikes for a hell of a lot less money
this is pricey 😀 an entry level bike is £50 rusted retro bike from gumtree, where you stick £60 ebay wheels on, clean it oil it and distroy all these halfrods £200 bikes on any road, for 900 bike should be perfect
Cube Peloton Race 2015. 105 Groupset, 8.9kg. £1000.
On the german shimano site they don't even offer Tourney group sets anymore. And for good reason.
Maybe prices have shot up a lot in a few years but that seems a lot of money to spend on a bike with tourney when you can get new bikes with sora + carbon forks for less
But it's still really funny how medium-high range bikes cost as much as whole ass motorcycles.
Boardman SLR 8.8 beats this hands down for the same price, Tiagra 10 speed drivetrain, disc brakes and a carbon fork. Paying for the brand name here surely?!
It's a double-edged sword. Like any other hobby, it sucks to get into things at first because of money… More than likely you're not going to enter a new hobby purchasing the best product simply due to you learning how expensive things can be, however if a hobby starts becoming a passion and you laser focus on it, you end up going after what you really care about.
This being said, some of the cost of bikes is just insanely out of control. I remember a week or so ago I was wanting to just see how much a certain type of bike was and the lowest possible price I could find was like, $4,000 (£3,160). I just started laughing, there's just no way I can afford that given all the other things I have to pay for and the lack of companies paying what workers deserve.
Gear gaps are felt more by trained cyclists who've gotten toooooo used to a specific cadance. I was real bad that way, raced 12-27 9spd on my MTB. Shifted non-stop as a result and needed a shift to change velocity. I got a singlespeed bike and found that in most instances, NOT shifting is the faster way through. Better to train on big gap cassettes probably, to keep the legs' cadence range wide open. You can fine tune in races.
would you recommend the scott or triban 520 ? Mind you i want to ride on taxc flux first. wich the tourney only has 8 gears and that doesnt support it
I just bought a vitus zenium for £850. tiagra, carbon frame. spyre disc brakes but they can be upgraded to semi hydrolic.
Excellent video with great discussion and reasoning!
My first proper bike was a ‘92ish Bridgestone MB-5. It was around $550 and had shimano deore dx components. I rode it all over the Pacific Northwest until it was stolen in 1999. Still miss that bike!