Recommendations on Touring bike

Any recommendations on good touring bikes around the £700 mark?
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Paul Lydon
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Dawes Galaxy. You can get'em cheap from the Bike Shed Crediton. Look them up
on the net.

They are built like a brick ****house.

Dawes Galaxy. You can get'em cheap from the Bike Shed Crediton. Look them up
on the net.

They are built like a brick ****house.

Greetings,

If you want your £700 to include change, and kit like lights etc., try the
Edinburgh Country. All the reviews have been positive, and a friend of mine
swears by it, commuting daily and having done a couple of coast-to-coasts on
it.

T.T.F.N.

SPENNY

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Any recommendations on good touring bikes around the £700 mark?
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Greetings,

If you want your £700 to include change, and kit like lights etc., try the
Edinburgh Country. All the reviews have been positive, and a friend of mine
swears by it, commuting daily and having done a couple of coast-to-coasts on
it.

T.T.F.N.

SPENNY

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Any recommendations on good touring bikes around the £700 mark?
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Dawes Galaxy. I have had mine for about 18 years and I still love it.
I don't know how many thousands of miles it has done.
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Dawes Galaxy. I have had mine for about 18 years and I still love it.
I don't know how many thousands of miles it has done.
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Spencer Bullen wrote:
If you want your £700 to include change, and kit like lights etc., try the
Edinburgh Country. All the reviews have been positive, and a friend of mine
swears by it, commuting daily and having done a couple of coast-to-coasts on
it.

IIRC, the Edinburgh Country is pretty much a Dawes Horizon. FWIW, I've
been v.happy with the horizon I bought a year or two ago for the daily
commute to work...

Replace the fat tires with something thinner if you do get one
though. Schwalbe Marathons in my case, but take your pick. Oh, and
replace the QRs with something marginally more secure -- QRs are that
bit too easy to remove for my liking if you're going to leave your
bike anywhere publically accessible. I suppose a lock with multiple
cables to go round each wheel would be an alternative.

Phil



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In article ,
Spencer Bullen wrote:
If you want your £700 to include change, and kit like lights etc., try the
Edinburgh Country. All the reviews have been positive, and a friend of mine
swears by it, commuting daily and having done a couple of coast-to-coasts on
it.

IIRC, the Edinburgh Country is pretty much a Dawes Horizon. FWIW, I've
been v.happy with the horizon I bought a year or two ago for the daily
commute to work...

Replace the fat tires with something thinner if you do get one
though. Schwalbe Marathons in my case, but take your pick. Oh, and
replace the QRs with something marginally more secure -- QRs are that
bit too easy to remove for my liking if you're going to leave your
bike anywhere publically accessible. I suppose a lock with multiple
cables to go round each wheel would be an alternative.

Phil



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"Paul Lydon" wrote in message
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Any recommendations on good touring bikes around the £700 mark?

You can't go far wrong with a Dawes Galaxy. Thorn are good, too, but IMO
the Galaxy is still the benchmark after more than 30 years.

My server is going offline for a couple of hours this arbo, but there's a
PDF of the review in Cycle attached to this page:
http://chapmancentral.demon.co.uk/Web/public.nsf/Documents/superg
(warning: large!). Chris Juden says it all, really.

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