GuyBoden
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I'm wondering if any forum members who know, would make a list of what's a good cheapie bike?
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Just bought a cheapie
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Widge
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I'm thinking that in order to make such a list much would depend on ones own definition of 'cheap' - intended use, how much you were prepared to compromise and/or upgrade/repair...the variables are endless...
For Instance - my own pride and joy is an original red Triban 3 £299.95 brand new and a pukka out of the box road-bike.........., www.cyclechat.net/threads/beginners-joy-a-pic-of-my-new-ish-pride-and-joy.115948........ since marginally upgraded and rides more than well enough FOR ME...but other roadies still snigger at it!.....but most agree there has never been a bargain cheapie like it before or since.
For a little over 100 smackers i rebuilt a totally unrideable shagged out shed-bike into a tasty little roadster using cheap internet parts.....which satisfies MY USE for it.......www.cyclechat.net/threads/shed-rescue-bike-rides-again.149757
But all depends on that definition of 'cheap'. Impossible to quantify.
Beauty...useability....cheapness ...all in the eye of the beholder.
However..Tom Allen (round the world cyclist, adventurer, blogger/filmaker) experimentally built a World-Tour-Ready bike (by scavenging/blagging and scouring for 2nd hand/junked parts) AND sourced all the equipment to use as such for less than £28.00! (to see if it could be done!!) It Could.
Read about it by googling his blog? (I'll try and link when I have a mo)
For Instance - my own pride and joy is an original red Triban 3 £299.95 brand new and a pukka out of the box road-bike.........., www.cyclechat.net/threads/beginners-joy-a-pic-of-my-new-ish-pride-and-joy.115948........ since marginally upgraded and rides more than well enough FOR ME...but other roadies still snigger at it!.....but most agree there has never been a bargain cheapie like it before or since.
For a little over 100 smackers i rebuilt a totally unrideable shagged out shed-bike into a tasty little roadster using cheap internet parts.....which satisfies MY USE for it.......www.cyclechat.net/threads/shed-rescue-bike-rides-again.149757
But all depends on that definition of 'cheap'. Impossible to quantify.
Beauty...useability....cheapness ...all in the eye of the beholder.
However..Tom Allen (round the world cyclist, adventurer, blogger/filmaker) experimentally built a World-Tour-Ready bike (by scavenging/blagging and scouring for 2nd hand/junked parts) AND sourced all the equipment to use as such for less than £28.00! (to see if it could be done!!) It Could.
Read about it by googling his blog? (I'll try and link when I have a mo)
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bonsaibilly
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Impossible. For one thing, everyone's definition of cheap is different. For another, everyone's aesthetic taste is different. For a third, everyone (on here at least) has got too big an ego to accept that someone else's suggestion may be valid!
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RoubaixCube
~Tribanese~
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I heard a guy once did the Dunwich Dynamo on a boris bike... cant beat that £2 rental fee.... Cheap a$ Chip$
cyberknight
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Didnt someone hire a boris bike, take it to france in a car , ride up ventoux and get back before it expired ?
RoubaixCube
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There is simply no end to the worlds that the Boris Bike cannot conquer
hats off to those who rode it up the ventoux - info says they raised £3600 for charity and arrived back with the bike with 22 seconds to spare before they incurred a fine (i think - Im not sure if they were fined or not but the article i read says £150 fine was handed out or something)
I have heard of stolen ones appearing all over Eastern Europe and possibly as far as Gambia
