Looking for a good <$1000 used road bike

[allanchau]

Hi,

I am looking to purchase a good <$1000 road bike for work and weekend riding.

I came across this on gumtree https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/warrada ... 1165035896 and was wondering if it is good value?
It is a 2011 model purchased in 2012 and barely used (I haven't actually seen it in person yet though).

Is there anything better out there in this price range?

Thanks,
Allan

[Mububban]

Hard to tell from that one small photo, but white bar tape gets dirty really quickly. But probably not in "only 2 hours of use." And that bar tape looks a bit dirty to me. So that claim of low mileage may or may not be true.

Otherwise, they seem to be a well rated bike and $600 is pretty cheap. Assuming you can test ride it and know enough about bikes to see if the gears shift well and everything seems in good nick?

I think there are lots of genuine low mileage bikes on Gumtree, people love the look of a road bike then plonk their backside on it for one ride, hate it, and it goes into the spare room for 3 years until they admit they're never going to use it again

[foo on patrol]

Jump onto these sites and have a gander.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BicycleMarketAU/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BicycleMarketAU/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cycling ... australia/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/270088723171862/

Foo

[koshari]

measuring the chain is one thing you can do the gauge how much its been used, providing its original of coarse which would be most bikes on the market .

personally the bike linked i find a little on the expensive side for a sora 2300 equipped bike, for example 2 blokes i work with recently bought sora 2300 bikes for $150 and $200 a piece.

[allanchau]

Thanks for the help, I also had a look at https://www.reidcycles.com.au/vantage-e ... -disc.html and http://www.99bikes.com.au/merida-scultu ... black-2017 Both seem pretty decent for the price? Thinking of giving the Orbea a miss, I also noticed the front wheel seems to have a flat spot at the back?

[10speedsemiracer]

In the used bike market, Giant is your friend, although I would recommend avoiding triple cranksets (so some OCRs, Defy and the occasional TCR will have these fitted). Saw a TCR in your area on Gumtree however it had a triple, so didn't recommend.

There's a Boardman CX bike on sale at Pushys which seems good value for money. $1000 for a disc-braked, alloy bike. https://www.pushys.com.au/boardman-perf ... green.html....only problem is size. Only S or XL left in stock.

Or, there's this Specialized Allez :

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/goodwoo ... 1165475247

[10speedsemiracer]

This is the Giant TCR I was talking about. Seems like a motivated seller...

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/morphet ... 1165063533

As I mentioned before, it has a triple chainring, although if you stayed on the top 2 it's 52/42 (just like an old BioPace), then this isn't an issue. One thing though, he claims it has a new cassette, the cassette in the pics doesn't look new. Hard to tell from photos though. Has the ad marked Urgent, so I think if you went in at $450 cash he/she would probably jump at it. Is a 54cm frame, has Mavic wheels, well worth considering.

[koshari]

you wouldn’t go to far wrong with the allez 10speedsemiracer linked 2 posts ago. pretty good value there.