UK’S MOST WANTED TED BIKES!
We asked our sister site, BikeRadar, which road bikes around £2000 have been searched for the most online. Here are five of the best...
SUB-£2500 RIDES FROM CANNONDALE, RIBBLE TREK, GIANT & CANYON
The technology used to design the next big thing is literally space age, and so are some of the materials used
The days of buying bikes based upon word of mouth or the recommendation of your local bike shop have mostly passed. Hours spent perusing catalogues or cupping your hands to better glimpse the most exotic Italian trinketry through the shop window are consigned to a simpler past, too.
Today’s fast-moving bike market has grown out of all recognition with dozens more brands, ever more new niches of bike and countless options. No longer are there just road, track, audax or touring bikes, but everything from fat bikes to e-bikes, via gravel, endurance, triathlon, and cyclocross. The technology used to design the next big thing is literally space age, and so are some of the materials used, but possibly the greatest tool any customer has these days is the internet.
Every new bike worth its cranks will be found online and often comes with a marketing push of lifestyle imagery, rider endorsements and detailed information. If you want to know its geometry to the millimetre, frame construction or its component minutiae, it’s all there. Of course, our job also adds to the quantity of information available, providing you with independent reviews that leave no stone unturned.
We asked our colleagues at BikeRadar to compile a list of the 10 most searched for road bikes for around £2000 from the previous 18 months. Some have been updated, replaced or are no longer available, but we pulled together the five most relevant models and spent some stormy December days ploughing our way around our local loops to see which one most deserves your cash.