Quote Originally Posted by hopey View Post
As I can't run at the minute I've been plenty of cycling on a cheapish Halfords mountain bike, I've cycled to work on it which is a 25 mile round trip which was hard work.

I'm thinking about getting a new bike, so I can maybe cycle to work and cross train (when I start running again), but not sure what to get, I'm looking at spending no more than £500.

Do I get a new bike or look for a second had bike?

Any ideas on what I should be looking for?

ive heard bianchi do some quite amazingly good bikes , in fact no dont even think about buying owt else
so much history within your machine
if they was good enough for coppi they will be good enough for you adrian