Want to get into the world of road cycling? Well £500 is the entry point for most decent road bikes. You’ll not get the lightweight parts of a more expensive bike but you will get a well made bike from some of the top brands and manufacturers.
What follows below is some of the best regarded five hundred pound bikes and links to where you can find out more about buying them.
If you’ve got two grand to spend on a road bike you’ve got a great selection of bikes to choose from, but that’s the problem so many bikes out there for £2000 it’s hard to choose.
Here’s a few of the best out there that have had top reviews and do the job brilliantly.
Opera Canova 2010

Not the best known brand but full carbon from the people behind Pinarello and full campag groupset. An Italian masterpiece.
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If you’ve spent a small fortune on your much loved carbon road bike the chances are you’re not going to want to take it out in the terrible weather we get every winter. It’ll ruin the drive train so you’ll need a new groupset and there’s nothing worse than seeing a beautiful racing machine covered in salt, grim and mud.
So it’s not surprising a lot of people have started creating their own winter bikes set up for the worst the weather can throw at them. Retailers and manufacturers not surprisingly have caught up with this and started producing their owen specialist winter bikes.
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Date Sunday, July 25
Distance 105 km
Longjumeau → Champs-Elysées
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Date Saturday, July 24
Distance 51 km
Individual Time Trial Bordeaux → Pauillac
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It’s hard to predict where live streams are going to be available before the race starts but normally I visit http://www.cyclingfans.com/ http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/ or http://www.steephill.tv/ and one of the three normally has a usable stream
Date Monday, July 19
Distance 187 km
Pamiers → Bagneres-de-Luchon
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It’s hard to predict where live streams are going to be available before the race starts but normally I visit http://www.cyclingfans.com/ http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/ or http://www.steephill.tv/ and one of the three normally has a usable stream
Date Thursday, July 22
Distance 174 km
Pau → Col du Tourmalet
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It’s hard to predict where live streams are going to be available before the race starts but normally I visit http://www.cyclingfans.com/ http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/ or http://www.steephill.tv/ and one of the three normally has a usable stream
Date Friday, July 23
Distance 190 km
Salies-de-Béarn → Bordeaux
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It’s hard to predict where live streams are going to be available before the race starts but normally I visit http://www.cyclingfans.com/ http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/ or http://www.steephill.tv/ and one of the three normally has a usable stream
Date Tuesday, July 20
Distance 196 km
Bagneres-de-Luchon → Pau
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It’s hard to predict where live streams are going to be available before the race starts but normally I visit http://www.cyclingfans.com/ http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/ or http://www.steephill.tv/ and one of the three normally has a usable stream
Date Sunday, July 18
Distance 184 km
Revel → Ax-3 Domaines
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It’s hard to predict where live streams are going to be available before the race starts but normally I visit http://www.cyclingfans.com/ http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/ or http://www.steephill.tv/ and one of the three normally has a usable stream