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Six of the best sub £1500 bikes - Bikes on a Budget

Video: Six of the best sub-£1500 bikes

If you've got between £1,000 and £1,500 to spend on a new road bike, here are six great choices
by David Arthur @davearthur
Mon, Jul 23, 2018 20:00
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If you've got a budget of between £1,000 and £1,500 to spend on a new road bike this year, whether you've got your eye on tackling a local sportive series or getting into road racing, or just riding for fun and fitness, we've rounded up six really good bikes that we've tested recently here at road.cc.

So hit the play button on the video above and enjoy. Feel free to ask any questions about these, or other, bikes in the comments section below.

Our pick of six of the best bikes under £1,500


 Weight Market price Read more
Focus Izalco Race Carbon Sora 8,920g
 £1,099.00
 Read our review
Boardman SLR 8.9c[note]
 NA
 £1,000.00
 9 stars of Boardman’s 2018 range
Giant Defy Advanced 3 9,500g
 £1,198.99
 Read our review
Ribble Gran Fondo Disc
 8,920g
 from £1,500.00
 Read our review
Dolan L'Etape
 8,560g
 from £979.99
 Read our review
Whyte Suffolk
 10,300g
 £950.00
 Read our review

Note: The successor to the Boardman Road Team Carbon featured in the video

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David Arthur @davearthur

David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur - Just Ride Bikes. 

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janusz0 | 6 years ago
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So where's the written version, so that I can search for words in the article?  You know,  words like FSA,  Rotor, Sram, Campagnolo, etc.

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Dnnnnnn | 6 years ago
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"Bikes on a Budget"?

I suppose £1500 is a budget in the literal sense of the word but I don't think it's a modest sum for most (perhaps even road.cc readers?) to spend on a bike - which I think is what the headline is suggesting.

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