Please share some inputs to your decision. It might help others in their “first purchase” journey.
Initially I'd set out to find something around the £3K mark and had pretty much consigned myself that I would be going Hardtail.
With this in mind following a couple of weeks of research I was considering a Giant Fathom E+1 Pro as it seemed to tick what I thought were all the boxes at the time.
Browsing around a few stores one night I popped onto the Decathlon Website as they've always had a pretty keenly priced and we'll specced range of Bikes and happen upon the Stilus E Bike. At £300 less than the Giant it had the same SX Components but with Full Suspension and the latest Gen 4 Bosch Motor...
One Problem though... They seem to be as rare as rocking horse shit!
I spent another couple of weeks looking around as the Stilus had lured me in with its Full Suspension Bosch Powered Charms while I wrestled with waiting for a Stilus to become available.
Growing increasingly impatient I looked at some Cube Models and that's where the budget started to creep.
Cubes Range has quite a few different models and there's a fair few 2020 Models still in-stock.
My choices were either a Stereo Hybrid 120 Race 500 with Fox Suspension at £3259 or with the 625w Battery at £3519
That brings me to my decision to buy the 140 Race 625.
It seems to tick all the boxes for me being
Full Sus
Decent Brakes
Good Quality Groupset
Bosch Gen4
All that plus the Carbon Frame cutting a bit of weight off.
So that's it... I was going to come in £300 under my budget but as usually happens I've ended up £700 over budget.
I think I've made the right decision but tbh I'm just looking forward to getting the bike and getting our for some rides!
Hopefully that's helpful to anyone else who's on the same search that I have been.
