Since I’m the Bike Guy in the office I get asked for advice quite often. Today, I just barely deterred a colleague from buying a Wormwood Dual Suspension because it was discounted from £350 to £99.99… Now I’m not going to give it the BSO line because you can get around and have a lot of fun on pretty much anything, but still, you can do better I reckon… But the sub-£200 bracket seems to have gone downhill a bit and my standard options are gone.
Maybe cheapest not-a-total-BSO
£130 http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/hybrid-bikes/apollo-transfer-mens-hybrid-bike
£180 and huge bonus marks for looking like a proppa biek.
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/mountain-bikes/falcon-progress-mens-mountain-bike-19
£200, one of those horrible looking carrera parts bin specials that are generally pretty effective :
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/hybrid-bikes/carrera-parva-mens-hybrid-bike
These get bonus points for mudguards but the specs are pretty wobbly.
£200 http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/bh-bikes-london-lite-hybrid-bike-p343511
£160 http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/viking-buttermere-gents-18sp-trekking-bike-p355957
Decathlon’s cheaper options are all wacky looking, which counts against them… LBS options are just complicated what with not being so easily checked online but are there any really good value brands to check out that I’ve not thought of? Evans have a load of good looking stuff in the £200+ bracket but that’s a harder sell. Used, I don’t really want to get into tbh