Bikes

The bike brands that you find at Summit Cycles are not there by accident, we have chosen to represent them because we believe that they offer the best features and value for money in a market saturated with ‘me too’ products. When the big spend goes on marketing hype rather than product development we stay out of the way.

Trek, Specialized, Orange, ,Santa Cruz, and Puky are represented because they each offer something different to the plethora of bicycle brands currently vying for your attention.

Our policy of providing 1 years free servicing (some restrictions apply) with new bikes means that we will never sell £99 ‘genuine’ mountain bikes, or children’s bikes built like disposable toys. To be honest we would rather someone else had to explain why the brakes don’t work when it rains, the cranks fall off after 10 miles, and why the saddle prevents rides of more than 5 miles. We agree with John Ruskin when he wrote:

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey

Our Adult bikes start at £230.00, we feel that this is the point at which a bike crosses over from being a poorly functioning disposable waste of resources, to being something of quality, suitable for long term use, and worth servicing and looking after. It will be built to a standard that lets you really enjoy riding it, with quality components from leading brands like Shimano and SRAM, and when correctly maintained, will provide years of comfortable and efficient service.

The bikes that we sell can be broadly broken down into the following 5 categories, OK, so we missed fixed gear road bikes, rigid single speeds, and a few other oddities, but for the most part these are the most relevant types of bike for the majority of cyclists, be they new to the sport, or transportation element of cycling, or seasoned long haul truckers.