Good Hybrid Bike €400-600

DiamondJQuimby

Hi I am looking to get a good hybrid bike for in or around 400 to 600 Euro.

Can anyone recommend anything.
I would be commuting around 18 miles per day

Two makes I have been looking at are Ridgeback and Lapierre are these good bikes??

Cheers

D

copacetic

they are both fine. have a look at the specialized sirrus also and although people will tell you not to buy from them the subway range in halfords are v. nice for a slightly chunkier commuter..

youcancallmeal

Have a Ridgeback Cyclone myself and I'm very happy with it. Not exactly a Hybrid but has slicks and moves a lot faster than my mountain bike. It essentially an Urban bike if you can call it that?

DiamondJQuimby

I think it is down to these four then.

Ridgeback Genesis Day 01
Specialized Sirrus
Lapierre Cruiser lite 06
Carrera Gryphon

Although I think all of these are slightly over €600

Anyone know of a good site which would review these and would they stand up to the Irish roads.

Thanks

D

copacetic

try the forum on cyclingplus.co.uk, I know the ridgebacks and the specialized always get great reviews..

check the prices too, online and up north, i bought my last 2 bikes up north and saved a couple of hundred against what they were in dublin..

DiamondJQuimby

Thanks for that Dave.

kincsem

My Specialized Sirrus Elite (2005 model) was bought for evening and weekend exercise spins. It's a solid machine.

It was a double but I asked to have a triple ring fitted as you know what Wicklow is like - not very flat. So it now has 3 x 8 = 24 gears.
I hope to do the Wicklow 100 on it in June with about a 1% chance I might do the 200.

The tyres are good as they are almost puncture-proof (Armadillos). I fitted a carrier and a bag to fit that. Also the seat stem started to disintigrate so the shop replaced it with a standard seat post. Fitted small lights front and back and clip-on mudgards, and a cycle computer.

DiamondJQuimby

How much did that set you back if you don't mind me asking..
Just the standard Sirrus Elite without the extra gears.

And also are them tyres standard or extra..

Cheers

D

miketv

speaking of hybrids does anybody have an opinion on claud butler and the bike being the "levante" i think (in the region of €600ish) I love the look of this. The Specialized Sirrus are good but they only seem to do silver (black is the colour I'm keen on). I would also love(best looking as well) the cannonadale bad boy ultra but at €1600 ummm bit on the expensive side.
So as the days get longer I'm gonna have to make a decision soon so any advice (especially on the claud butler) would be great.
cheers
Mike

Morgan

The 2006 basic Sirrus model is black...

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkModel.jsp?spid=13595

kincsem

DiamondJQuimby wrote:

How much did that set you back if you don't mind me asking..
Just the standard Sirrus Elite without the extra gears.

And also are them tyres standard or extra..

Cheers

D

It was about €950 in August 2005 in Cycleways. As far as I know they just changed it from a double to a triple. I hadn't decided to buy so they probably saw it as a deal clincher. And I was buying clothes, clip-on pedals, shoes, and other things so they probably though they had speared me for enough. The tyres are standard and are good (until I get my first puncture )

miketv

Morgan wrote:

The 2006 basic Sirrus model is black...

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkModel.jsp?spid=13595

o yes..sorry silly me :rolleyes: