Decathlon bike

smeg said:

When i bought the Cycling Plus magazine there was a review for the Decathlon Sport 7.1 R. Because i'm looking for a first road bike thats within my budget I thought this looked pretty good. I'm just wondering, where on earth you could get one from? I'm still saving up but my budget will be £400, should I look at other bikes?

The attachment shows the bike in the magazine-

Perhaps you don't have Decathlon stores near you, but I would imagine that would be where to get one... Decathlon is a French sporting goods super store. We even have them in Brazil. I would imagine they are built by another bike company in Taiwan, but have no idea who... maybe someone else can help you out there.

smeg said:

When i bought the Cycling Plus magazine there was a review for the Decathlon Sport 7.1 R. Because i'm looking for a first road bike thats within my budget I thought this looked pretty good. I'm just wondering, where on earth you could get one from? I'm still saving up but my budget will be £400, should I look at other bikes?

The attachment shows the bike in the magazine-

Don't know much about UK geography either so no idea if any of these are close to you.😉

Their are a couple in London, I think I saw one in Croydon.

BTW I was in the same situation, new to road racing. I got my 7.1 on Saturday WOW totally different from Mountain bikes!

I live in Amsterdam and theirs a store at the Arena

dmskin said:

Their are a couple in London, I think I saw one in Croydon.

BTW I was in the same situation, new to road racing. I got my 7.1 on Saturday WOW totally different from Mountain bikes!

I live in Amsterdam and theirs a store at the Arena

Ok cheers for the info. By the way what was your bike like?

smeg said:

Ok cheers for the info. By the way what was your bike like?

Well its my first time on a racer. Im more of a mountain biker. But from the little ive ridden it, since the weekend it appears to be solid/light enough.

looking forward to getting out on it this weekend (hope the weather gets better)

so where are you smeg?

home page

http://www.decathloncycle.com/

where am i?
I live in Buckinghamshire, England (South-East)
If you can try and tell me more about the bike which could be anything. Because i've only read the review of it and I want an opinion from an actual owner. THanks very much.

smeg said:

where am i?
I live in Buckinghamshire, England (South-East)
If you can try and tell me more about the bike which could be anything. Because i've only read the review of it and I want an opinion from an actual owner. THanks very much.

Hi, sorry about the lateness with getting back to you. I haven't had a chance to get out on it because of either work or the [censored] weather.

Anyway I did a 80km cycle at the weekend. WOW it was great - a lot different then a mountainbike.

From what I can see from the bike. It appears quite solid and cycle-able and would recommend it. I'm even thinking about getting one for London, so when I go back, I have something to ride on.

I hope that helps

dmskin 😉))

THanks for the help and comment on the bike.

REgards sam