Quick bike purchase advice needed
11-26-05 | 06:36 AM
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Quick bike purchase advice needed
Hi all,
I'm on the verge of purchasing a light touring bike/commuter and having lost an ebay auction on a Thorn bicycle I've since been offered the bike on a second change offer. This is the bike that I bid up to £420 for:
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7197290623
Meantime I've been considering alternatives, like The Ridgback Horizon at £499:
https://www.comptoncycles.co.uk/produ...id=m1b0s21p299
In terms of quality and value for money, which bike should I go for? Will the Thorn represent good value for money even though it has some older components like bar end shifters?
Cheers in advance
I'm on the verge of purchasing a light touring bike/commuter and having lost an ebay auction on a Thorn bicycle I've since been offered the bike on a second change offer. This is the bike that I bid up to £420 for:
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7197290623
Meantime I've been considering alternatives, like The Ridgback Horizon at £499:
https://www.comptoncycles.co.uk/produ...id=m1b0s21p299
In terms of quality and value for money, which bike should I go for? Will the Thorn represent good value for money even though it has some older components like bar end shifters?
Cheers in advance
11-26-05 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by maximum01
Hi all,
I'm on the verge of purchasing a light touring bike/commuter and having lost an ebay auction on a Thorn bicycle I've since been offered the bike on a second change offer. This is the bike that I bid up to £420 for:
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7197290623
Meantime I've been considering alternatives, like The Ridgback Horizon at £499:
https://www.comptoncycles.co.uk/produ...id=m1b0s21p299
In terms of quality and value for money, which bike should I go for? Will the Thorn represent good value for money even though it has some older components like bar end shifters?
Cheers in advance
I'm on the verge of purchasing a light touring bike/commuter and having lost an ebay auction on a Thorn bicycle I've since been offered the bike on a second change offer. This is the bike that I bid up to £420 for:
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7197290623
Meantime I've been considering alternatives, like The Ridgback Horizon at £499:
https://www.comptoncycles.co.uk/produ...id=m1b0s21p299
In terms of quality and value for money, which bike should I go for? Will the Thorn represent good value for money even though it has some older components like bar end shifters?
Cheers in advance
Personally, I think the Thorn is a much better value. Bar ends are not 'older', indeed to many they are preferred over indexed shifters for a touring bike. That particular Thorn doesn't have the ability for front low-riders and the cassette looks to be geared a bit high for a touring bike, but the same applies to the Ridgeback. Thorns are great bicycles and SJS has a very good reputation.
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey
