recreational bike

km79

i am purchasing a bike on the cycle to work scheme. bike will be used mainly rural roads . anyway i dont want to spend a lot and spotted 2 on local shops websites that seem alright and in my budget.
raleigh freeride at10 http://www.kearneycycles.com/galway-bicycles-special-offer.php?act=viewProd&productId=577

claude butler trail ridge http://www.kearneycycles.com/galway-bicycles-details.php?act=viewProd&productId=673

i know NOTHING about bikes so any advice appreciated

petethedrummer

Suspension on a bike in that price range is money very poorly spent. This subject crops up alot and we usually spend an age trying to talk people out of it.

1. It's unneccesary unless you're going mountain biking.
2. It won't be very good at that price.
3. It will take away from parts of the bike where the money would be better spent.
4. A well fitting bike will be comfortable for road cycling without suspension.
5. It makes the bike marginally slower.
6. It makes the bike marginally heavier.

For the type of cycling you intend to do a hybrid or a flat bar racer would be the way to go.

studiorat

You're not going to get a whole lot of joy for sub €300 in all fairness. You'd need to be look at twice that really, and maybe then some...

What distance were you planning on going? Is it for fitness or just to have the craic on the bike?

http://www.kearneycycles.com/galway-bicycles-details.php?act=viewCat&catId=113

And if that was a bit too agressive

http://www.kearneycycles.com/galway-bicycles-details.php?act=viewCat&catId=111

Second one more of a going down the shops kind of a yoke.

keenan110

studiorat wrote: »

And if that was a bit too agressive

http://www.kearneycycles.com/galway-bicycles-details.php?act=viewCat&catId=111

Second one more of a going down the shops kind of a yoke.

Wow, €69,900.00 doesn't go very far these days!!!:D

km79

well apart from using it for cycling to and from work:D mainly just short cycles of a few miles at most with the young lad. hence the low budget