Bike Dilema!

[spr1983]

Right here goes,

signed myself up for my first triathlon, the London one in August. Need to get myself a road bike. Been to near enough every bike shop that my area has to offer!

Did originally like the Trek 1.2 and the Merida 880 until found out the Merida is sold out. Been shown the Specialized Allez 18 as a replacement for the Merida but not sure on the look of it.

Budget was originally around £500, but looking like its ever increasing. Will probably limit this to £650.

With this new budget ive have seen the Cube Aerial and Trek 1.5, now again the Trek looks a little better than the Cube in my eyes, but the spec on the Cube looks a lot better.

Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this or reccomends a good first road bike for around my price range??

Any help much appreciated, my heads spinning now looking at all these bikes!

 

[RedBike]

Absolutely nothing wrong with either of the bikes you've picked but if this bike is just for triathlons you might be much better off looking at a time trial specific bike. Unfortunately I can't think of any time trial specific bikes within your budget so you might have to look secondhand.

Just the first two I found. No idea what they're like.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Time-trial-cy...14&_trkparms=72:1688|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Scott-Plasma-...14&_trkparms=72:1688|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

 

[spr1983]

Thanks for the quick reply, the bike will be for training on aswell as my triathlons. so not really looking to buy a time trial bike.

 

[amnesia]

I have just acquired a Boardman Comp road bike and I think it's ace... although it is my first road bike and I don't have anything to compare it to.

Comes in at 5p under £650.

http://www.boardmanbikes.com/road/road_comp.html

Daniel.


PS - the bad news is you will have to go over every nut and bolt yourself once you have collected it from Halfords as they don't know seem to do it for you.