Availability of new bikes

Yeah its the same everywhere. Been looking for a half decent entry-level bike around the €1500 mark for the past few months now with no joy whatsoever. Managed to get a very basic Merida Scultura 400 on pre-order thats supposed to come in the next couple of weeks, I'm not holding my breath on that though.

I ordered a Trek Emonda in January It has finally arrived in Ireland and my LBS are building it at the minute.

A friend of mine had ordered a Celeste Bianchi. He was told to expect a 6+ month wait, but after about 4 months they called to just say the order was cancelled, no bike this year

Shop local to me has a Reacto 6000 in stock. New bikes are extremely slow to come through & I wouldn’t be holding out much hope of getting one anytime soon.

I was contemplating a Canyon Grail in the new year on the cycle to work scheme, do they not have any bikes available?

Actually, anyone have any recommendations for other bikes at that sort of price point?

Appreciate that, thanks

Canyon Grail 6, preferably in green

in what sense?

(wheels are something I genuinely know very little about - the wheels on my road bike are the ones it came with, I've never even thought about changing them...)

The Nuroad Race looks interesting, same price point, slightly higher spec components than the Grail 6.

The only thing is the weight difference. I'm no weight weeny, but my current bike is nominally 12.2kg, which is on the heavy side. With my next bike I'd like to shed some of that

The Grail is 9.5kg, but the Nuroad is almost a kg heavier, at 10.3kg.

Anyone care to weigh in (pun intended) on the matter

There is nothing really wrong with stock wheels but it's the easiest place for a manufacturer to save on costs so they usually fit cheaper wheels. This is generally the case up to the 2000 price point but not always.

Most cheap wheels are just heavier but still solid.

The hard limit is on the amount of money you get tax relief on. You can add more money yourself to the cost of the bike, but you just pay that straight up. So it'd be an extra €300 out of my pocket.

Multiple posts in the Bike to Work Scheme thread suggest that Canyon are happy to split the bill, sending the initial invoice for the €1250 to my employer, and the remainder to me

Ah my Cube Attain carbon came with mavic askiums. For all 105s at €1500 it's about the wheels i'd expect.

If your company won't allow you to do this, it's down to limitations put in place by the company, rather than the scheme itself

Park Tools videos either access through their website or on YouTube.

There are a multitude of other people giving advise also.

Park Tools vids are good because they are succinct. I like Oz Cycles on YouTube for same reason.