When the weather is at its best and the streets seem to be filled with people happily whizzing around on their BMX bikes or shooting home through the snarling traffic, getting a bike seems like a great idea. But bicycles can be very expensive so where is the best place to go for people looking for a bike on a budget? While every town is different there are many places where it should be easy to get a bike for a reasonable price. These places include:
Gumtree
Gumtree is an online market/trading place which has listings for most major towns in the UK. If you go to the homepage and search for 'cheap road bikes' or 'ladies Raleigh bike' or something and you will be presented with a list of the latest bikes available in your area with prices. You will quickly see just how much there is on offer and often at a very reasonable price. There may be some haggling involved in the price as sometimes come in with a higher offer than the one advertised so get in there quick.
Bike Station
There is a recycling scheme in certain towns like Edinburgh which collects old bikes as they are donated by people, refurbishes them and then sells them on to people who need a bike. They use the money to pay their staff and to run a bike clinic which seeks to help people maintain and repair their old bikes themselves. This is the perfect sort of place to find a cheap kids bikes as well as cheap road bikes.
Charity
Increasingly your local charity shops are finding bikes as part of donations. Often the bikes will be for kids but occasionally there will be adult bikes too. Find a list of your local charity shops and make some calls. As charity shops can be quite small they may not have them on display so giving them a call saves you trawling round town.
Halfords
It's true that Halfords is a biking behemoth, and it certainly doesn't always have the lowest prices, but if you want to find a reliable fancy hybrid bike then you can't really go wrong with Halfords. They even offer maintenance and things too. If you time it right, Halfords has a sale every now and then, but this is not so good if you are looking for something in particular as they will generally only have stuff they want to get rid of.
Sam Qam is a hybrid bike rider who says that even cheap road bikes are a great source of transport for the masses.
Gumtree
Gumtree is an online market/trading place which has listings for most major towns in the UK. If you go to the homepage and search for 'cheap road bikes' or 'ladies Raleigh bike' or something and you will be presented with a list of the latest bikes available in your area with prices. You will quickly see just how much there is on offer and often at a very reasonable price. There may be some haggling involved in the price as sometimes come in with a higher offer than the one advertised so get in there quick.
Bike Station
There is a recycling scheme in certain towns like Edinburgh which collects old bikes as they are donated by people, refurbishes them and then sells them on to people who need a bike. They use the money to pay their staff and to run a bike clinic which seeks to help people maintain and repair their old bikes themselves. This is the perfect sort of place to find a cheap kids bikes as well as cheap road bikes.
Charity
Increasingly your local charity shops are finding bikes as part of donations. Often the bikes will be for kids but occasionally there will be adult bikes too. Find a list of your local charity shops and make some calls. As charity shops can be quite small they may not have them on display so giving them a call saves you trawling round town.
Halfords
It's true that Halfords is a biking behemoth, and it certainly doesn't always have the lowest prices, but if you want to find a reliable fancy hybrid bike then you can't really go wrong with Halfords. They even offer maintenance and things too. If you time it right, Halfords has a sale every now and then, but this is not so good if you are looking for something in particular as they will generally only have stuff they want to get rid of.
Sam Qam is a hybrid bike rider who says that even cheap road bikes are a great source of transport for the masses.
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