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I'm looking for a bike for my sister in law. She wants to spend around £500 if possible, but would be willing to go up to£800. I will try and persuade her to go nearer £800 and stick with a hardtail. She rides once or twice a week on blue or red type trails and has a Calibre Point.50 bike.
I have just had a quick look and the best bike I have found is the Vitus Sentier 2016:
650b, bolt through, decent drive train, good looking geo, air spring fork. Looks good for the money to me.
Are there any other bikes I should be looking at?
Forgot to say, she has to use Cycle Scheme, so that rules out some bikes.
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/mountain-bikes/13-incline-beta-27-5-mountain-bike-2015
RS forks Vs Suntour on the vitus £649
or the gamma for £900 and then you get sram gears and avid brakes
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/mountain-bikes/13-incline-gamma-27-5-mountain-bike-2015
Cheers for the post jekkyl I don't think Halfords are part of the Cycle Scheme, I think they are part of their own C2W scheme. So unfortunately that rules those bikes out
Evans let you do cyclescheme on sale bikes with no surcharge, so worth a look at their options...
e.g. [url= https://www.evanscycles.com/pinnacle-ramin-four-2015-mountain-bike-EV207303 ]this [/url]looks OK if size small is any good:
Mrs Bucko loves her 2015 Whyte 802 Compact, it rides really nice and is a really good looking bike which helps her enjoy it way more than having any slightly better components would ever do.
And it won bike of the year with a well known magazine - http://www.mbr.co.uk/reviews/hardtail/whyte-802-compact-review
The imminently to be released, Pinnacle Ramin 3Plus?
Evans let you do cyclescheme on sale bikes with no surcharge, so worth a look at their options...e.g. this looks OK if size small is any good:
Thanks for the Evans info, that bike does look good and a small might fit. I'll add it to the shortlist.
Mrs Bucko loves her 2015 Whyte 802 Compact, it rides really nice and is a really good looking bike which helps her enjoy it way more than having any slightly better components would ever do.And it won bike of the year with a well known magazine - http://www.mbr.co.uk/reviews/hardtail/whyte-802-compact-review
I love Whyte bikes, so this is on the shortlist too.
The imminently to be released, Pinnacle Ramin 3Plus?
Thanks for the suggestion, I don't think she will do for a plus bike at the moment.