Buyer guide help! Cross + Touring + Commuter
04-24-19, 03:20 PM
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Buyer guide help! Cross + Touring + Commuter
looking to get some tips on good bikes I should be looking at for this spec:
What other ideas do you have?
- Sub £1000 (or not far off)
- Comfortable riding posture for touring
- Disc brakes (preferably hydraulic but will settle on mech)
- Fittings for pannier racks so I can take her touring
- Enough clearance for gravel / touring tyres
- Nippy enough to get around London in dense traffic and pull away fast at the lights
- Tiagra + groupset but honestly if it looks great I can settle for Sora
What other ideas do you have?
04-24-19, 04:31 PM
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1049: Cube Nuroad Pro FE 2019
https://www.evanscycles.com/cube-nur...-bike-EV355540
Only the 56cm available at the moment though.
1025: 2019 Pinnacle Arkose D2
https://www.evanscycles.com/pinnacle...-bike-EV339947
2x Tiagra. Hydraulic brakes. Threaded bb. < That's my pick.
Personally I'd prefer 2x for touring.
My initial thought was the Alpkit Sonder Camino alloy, however it is 1x.
The frame does have the most relaxed geo amongst these three bikes though.
A nippy ride at that price point would mostly come down to wheel/tyre weight. However you wouldn't get low weight components on any bike you look at.
The Cube does come with G-One Speed which is one of the faster tyres for its size.
https://www.evanscycles.com/cube-nur...-bike-EV355540
Only the 56cm available at the moment though.
1025: 2019 Pinnacle Arkose D2
https://www.evanscycles.com/pinnacle...-bike-EV339947
2x Tiagra. Hydraulic brakes. Threaded bb. < That's my pick.
Personally I'd prefer 2x for touring.
My initial thought was the Alpkit Sonder Camino alloy, however it is 1x.
The frame does have the most relaxed geo amongst these three bikes though.
A nippy ride at that price point would mostly come down to wheel/tyre weight. However you wouldn't get low weight components on any bike you look at.
The Cube does come with G-One Speed which is one of the faster tyres for its size.
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Bikeradar just ranked the Aluminum Canyon Grail their #1 all road bike. Its pretty nippy and versatile, and Tiagra hits your budget. The Aluminum Inflite has been a goto bike for what you described before that.
I do like those Genesis bikes though - they do some nice stuff with steel. not too nible in that case though.
I do like those Genesis bikes though - they do some nice stuff with steel. not too nible in that case though.
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