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Mark Thompson
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How cheap is cheap BTW?
Cheap in a bike shop is £200 - that'll get you a perfectly reasonable bottom of their range. It
should be ahead of anything from a supermarket. If you want something with drop bars it'll be a lot
more than that - economies of scale & stuff. One good thing about good bike shops is the after
sales service. See www.bicycledoctor.co.uk - they give you some free services on your bike in the
first year so everything will still be running like clockwork. Try and wrangle something like that
if you get your bike from your LBS. Free lights is worth going for as well. You save on the full
price, they lose only the trade price so they prefer that to an equivalent discount on the bike.
You might need to add extra for mudguards and rack. If you get 'em from the shop they'll fit it for
you, if you get it from Argos or similar you'll save a few squid (ad have some fun trying to bolt
them on
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Cheap in a bike shop is £200 - that'll get you a perfectly reasonable bottom of their range. It
should be ahead of anything from a supermarket. If you want something with drop bars it'll be a lot
more than that - economies of scale & stuff. One good thing about good bike shops is the after
sales service. See www.bicycledoctor.co.uk - they give you some free services on your bike in the
first year so everything will still be running like clockwork. Try and wrangle something like that
if you get your bike from your LBS. Free lights is worth going for as well. You save on the full
price, they lose only the trade price so they prefer that to an equivalent discount on the bike.
You might need to add extra for mudguards and rack. If you get 'em from the shop they'll fit it for
you, if you get it from Argos or similar you'll save a few squid (ad have some fun trying to bolt
them on
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