If you were given £2,000 to buy any bike you want, what would you do? Here at GCN, we’d almost certainly go for a used bike.
Thanks to @buycycle Si, Alex, and special guest star from @gtn Mark Threlfall have done exactly that. Between them they’ve gone for a modern future-proof bike, a five year old superbike, and a time trial bike.
But most importantly, which is the best £2,000 used bike we could buy?
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Get the bikes the guys rode here:
Alex’s Cannondale SuperSix EVO 👉 https://buycycle.com/en-gb/bike/default66213a6c78284-99480
Si’s Trek Emonda 👉 https://buycycle.com/en-gb/bike/emonda-sl-6-disc-2022-98930
Mark’s Vitus Crono TT 👉 https://buycycle.com/en-gb/bike/default66213d27cf6ae-94744
00:00 What bike would you get for £2,000?
01:02 Our £2,000 used bikes
05:37 Where did we buy our used bikes?
06:38 How we decided which bike was best
07:23 Challenge 1: The Climb
11:03 Challenge 2: The Pursuit
14:55 Challenge 3: Which bike looks best?
18:00 The Verdict: What is the best £2,000 bike we bought?
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32 Comments
Which is the best £2000 used bike we could buy? Let us know 👇
Love it. More of the same. Great banter 😂
supersix bar none. Gulf color is insane
Do you have that route on strava or rwgps?
Hello, can you please consider doing test of the system from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6DUSKhbRU
Just love that Sy color coded his bike+outfit. Fantastic 😊
Loved the blue 😍
Mark's bike sold already, that does count for something? ;D
The blue is nice & cannondale is massively underrated.
This was fun😂
Red bikes are fastest. Well done Si.
Blue Cannondale for me please.
Top video. My vote goes to Simon but I might be a bit biased towards trek Emonda 😜
Wow, just let me say, your weather just SUCKS…
Great content!
Thank you !
More content like this please
Yes! Bike for the people and voted by the people! Great
I have the cannondale evo with SRAM Red from 2013!
Could you have chosen a wetter day? 😂
This really reminded me of the old GCN videos, where it was more like a group of mates just messing about with bikes and having a great time doing it. Top marks to all involved. Also, hope Mark was wearing socks for this else his feet would be freezing
Any bike with rim brakes win by default.
I got my full carbon tt bike for £200 on Facebook marketplace, sram rival groupset with dolan frame. Same price for a Cannondale CX bike which I've put 32mm road tyres on. You don't need to spend anywhere close to 2k for a good bike no matter the discipline if you spend some time looking around.
Love the friendly competition and banter
If Top Gear was hosted by 3 Richard Hammonds.
That Vitus of Marks was the best bike (I’m not a triathlete btw) but it completely threw the component handbook out the window, Shimano, campag , sram all working in one bike… Ollie would have imploded seeing that!! Loved this challenge!!
I bought a 2017 Wilier Triestina GTR for 2000 bucks as well, did a couple upgrades worth about 1000 and I love it. Like it more than my $7500 Pinarello.
Top Gear is everywhere ( the good Top Gear )
when you add all the buycycle fees to the price you can get a new bike for the price.
Blue, by a mile.
Love it… but i would go with TRECK! Is clean simple and discs!
Great video. How about a best £500 budget entry level bike next?
Good bants. Nice one lads
I'd buy a 150cc moped to be honest