Want to get something fun for my commute that can handle some off-road sections.

Looking to spend around £500 as I would hopefully sell my roadie which is not worth that much (RT-58)

Would hopefully get me motivated to ride to work more often but would also be used to replace my roadie for recreational rides (possibly spare wheelset).

Any recommendations? Seen one of these which is in price and looks quite handy, don’t mind 2nd hand if totally decent like.

http://www.tifosicycles.co.uk/ck6.php

Saracen Hack 2 @ Edinburgh cycles for 550 looks a bargain (56 or 58 only though)

http://www.mangobikes.co.uk/bikes/point-ar-all-round/point-ar-shimano-sora4

Ooooooh two very interesting options chaps, will have a look into those when I get home tonight.

Billy’s had the Hack2 for about £370 in their sale iirc.

Now that would have been a bargain

That mangos nice, weighs 11.1kg though.

Norco Search but at Evans, but only in 56 or 58.

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/norco/search-s3-2015-adventure-road-bike-ec072577

Norco Threshold in plenty of sizes (tried to convince my Wife that one of these would be the ideal bike to buy to celebrate the birth of our Daughter last October, but I got ‘the stare’):

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/norco/threshold-alloy-sora-2016-cyclocross-bike-ec121373

New Raleigh Mustang looks good, but probably over budget at £650 for Claris version.

The Mrs is very close to ordering a Mango AR to use as a winter road bike. There’s not much info on them though apart from road.cc review. Which is pretty good to be fair!

Oh and there’s a £50 code on their Facebook page.

You could email Brant?

Friendly bloke, usually extremely helpful in answering queries.

Pinnacle Arkose in various guises always comes up, as does the Planet X London Road.

However take a look at the Jamis Renegade series (available from Evans) and the Verenti Substance (available from Wiggle).

I have a Jamis Renegade Expat on the way…

All suggestions much appreciated

I’ll have a browse now.

Cheers for the heads up on the code Sam

The basic Boardman CX bike is good value

Currently £450!!!

You could email Brant?

Friendly bloke, usually extremely helpful in answering queries.

Hello. Sorry. Bit slow.

The Mango is really nice. But I would say that. But it is.

Greg May rode one and liked it. He still has it I think – http://www.gregorymay.ie/?p=2741

And Jason Miles uses one for training on – https://www.instagram.com/p/-ds5XmxDfp/?taken-by=jasonmilesracing

You involved with Mango then Brant ?

Yeah. Been doing some work with them since about March last year.

Nice one Brant.

The Mango is hard to resist atm, seems a cracker of a bike, but which colour does one go with?

The Tiagra build seems good value with the upgraded stoppers etc