New school bargains?

[WINI]

My mates lad is just starting to venture into proper riding (parks) and is wanting a more suitable rider than his heavyweight POS Halfords special.
His budget is around £200, and I've looked in the usual places for any bargains but they are all pretty much Hi-ten steel frames at that price.

Anyone know of any shop bargains around at the mo? Currently got a KHE root 180, an Eastern nightwasp and a WTP arcade in the frame...

Cheers
 

[paulb113]

Does he want new? I may be selling my WTP Zodiac full cromo frame,fork bike, its been rattle canned black but its a great bike with great parts. probably £150 for full bike, its in Wigan

[oldschoolace]

Deffo better of second hand with that budget if he wants owt decent 

[WINI]

Yeah cheers lads, its a xmas present so I'm thinking his Mum and Dad are gonna want something shiny and new.  I'll have a word and see what they want to do though 

[paulb113]

Keep an eye on Winstanleys site, also Alans have had a half price bike sale

[oldschoolace]

Unless it's a secret present I would suggest they ask the lad. I got a rusty old lambretta wreck one Christmas. My mum wasn't happy wrapping it in Christmas wrap but I was out there in the snow stripping it before breakfast 

[Jaymz]

Mark dont be entirely put off by hi ten. Junior has a FBM Ignite frm MK and thats a Hi ten frame, but the whole bike comes in it 25lbs which is great, we swapped the bars and cranks for Cro mo and got it down to 23lbs

[fugazi]

How tall is he? I've got a 2013 fit dugan 1 with a few upgrades I'd let go for around that money, pretty much like new, I think there's a scratch on the forks you can notice but that's about it. 20" toptube & 13" backend.

[kalex]

Unless it's a secret present I would suggest they ask the lad. I got a rusty old lambretta wreck one Christmas. My mum wasn't happy wrapping it in Christmas wrap but I was out there in the snow stripping it before breakfast 

i hope you had a fiver on it snowing on xmas day then 

[WINI]

Looks like he's got a £300 budget now, which starts to include a better class of bike when you look at some of the discounted 2014 models.  Got something in mind from Winstanleys, thanks for the help guys 

[trebor]

A lot of bike for the money here

https://www.customriders.com/prodshow.asp?prodid=14907&cat=57&parent=1010&sid=3

[Dark Diggler]

Mark, if you can find someone who has a British cycling membership (anyone who races a bicycle needs one) they can get 10% off at CRC, it's a once a month deal, they just search the BC website for the CRC discount and put their membership no in and you get a discount code. I've used mine for this month and next months is spoken for n all 

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/bmx-bikes?f=2263&sort=discount

[dp and chopper dude]

I had this on an email from Custom riders:

http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=26822ae1494d8a496792f6d19&id=f3a860ff16&e=40ede25d9e

Any of those any good?

[WINI]

Cheers all, some good deals there on the fly!

Si, I'll have a look into that discount mate, think I might know someone at work. Cheers for the heads up!


Give it a few months, I'll be responsible for his broken arm