£1000 / $1000 to spend on new bike..

My mates after a new bike and currently has a Univega 750. He has
about £1000 / $1000 to spend on new bike and looking for an XC bike.

Local Halfords are doing an '03 Kona Kikapu reduced from £1400 to
£1100, any good or could he do better?

cheers..
Steve

Calz said...

My mates after a new bike and currently has a Univega 750. He has
about £1000 / $1000 to spend on new bike and looking for an XC bike.

Local Halfords are doing an '03 Kona Kikapu reduced from £1400 to
£1100, any good or could he do better?

cheers..
Steve

Nice bike. Good platform to build on. Sounds good to me.

Calz wrote:
My mates after a new bike and currently has a Univega 750. He has
about £1000 / $1000 to spend on new bike and looking for an XC bike.

Local Halfords are doing an '03 Kona Kikapu reduced from £1400 to
£1100, any good or could he do better?

Nice bike, but a couple of caveats. Make sure the Halfords staff you're
dealing with are knowledgable. The level of knowledge between branches
varies wildly.

Secondly, pick up a couple of copies of bike magazines (MBR, MBUK) and
have a flick through them for deals on '03 models. You may well find
something else that takes your fancy.

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You sure realize that $ 1000 are only about 750 English pounds?

Julius

He has
about £1000 / $1000 to spend on new bike and looking for an XC bike.

So I hope you guys pay waaayyy more for (German) Magura brakes "over there"
:-D

Nonetheless I guess it depends on the make - Kona, Specialized, Trek will
probably be cheaper - but who cares about them ;-)

Julius

Parts are (generally) much cheaper stateside so that 1000 English pounds
does indeed equate to about 1000 US dollars in bike part terms.

Steve.