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blorg

Incredibly good prices for frame and group there.

Lemag

Junior wrote: »

'10 Scott Addict R3 Frame €650
Sram Red €450

All of the parts were brand new, none 2nd hand and only Frame and Gruppo were sourced from outside LBS.

By new do you mean old stock but unused? Where did you get them? I just bought Red shifters and an FD for just short of that.

Junior

Nope, the Grouppo was picked up stateside and the frame from a distributor in Europe. I'm lucky to have a few friends in the business.

paulo6891

Had a look at the canyon site there, would definitely buy one with the voucher if I could, however I can not avail of it. I can only use bike2work.ie or else a couple of the local bike shops that aren't included. So it's out of the running.

Lemag

If you can buy a bike from Canyon for 1899 that would otherwise cost you about 2500 for an equivalent bike in your LBS then why use the btw scheme to buy a bike for 2200 which would effectively cost you 1900/1700 (depending on your income bracket) but would be a lesser bike?

I think that blorg was alluding to this.

If you're spending this much on such a nice bike then use the btw voucher on a nice €1000 alu bike for your winter trainer/commuter.

blorg

Yes, that is what I mean. Also, you can't use the BTW scheme to buy parts, only a complete bike, so your plan of getting frame/fork and all the bits from different sources is not possible under BTW either. You would have to buy all the parts and get it assembled from the one, local shop- and that is likely to be much more expensive than buying a compete bike to start with. At the price you are looking at, unless you find a good deal locally on a complete bike you like, forgetting about BTW may be the best option... you then still have it to use in the future on something else.

paulo6891

Thanks for the advice, although I have already paid for my bike to work voucher, so I have to use it. I had picked my bike and agreed everything with the shop, but when I went back to get it, they had raised their prices so I said no way. Maybe it was foolish of me going for the voucher like that, but I'm stuck in the situation and I'll just have to make the most of it and do the best I can.

Lemag

paulo6891 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, although I have already paid for my bike to work voucher, so I have to use it. I had picked my bike and agreed everything with the shop, but when I went back to get it, they had raised their prices so I said no way. Maybe it was foolish of me going for the voucher like that, but I'm stuck in the situation and I'll just have to make the most of it and do the best I can.

If you've already got the voucher then fair enough but..

paulo6891 wrote: »

After getting fed up of the ridiculous prices being charged by Irish shops, I have decided to build a bike up myself using good ebay offers.

..won't be legally possible if the BTW scheme is to have anything to do with it.

I still think that you should use this voucher on the best €1000 bike that you can get with it. If it is to be your first bike you might soon realize that you don't even like cycling.