2023's Best Road Bikes For Every Budget!

Road bikes come in all shapes and sizes but more importantly, all budgets too! This can mean choosing from the thousands available can be quite tricky. We're often left with the question, what's the best road bike for £1000? Or, best road bike for £2000. So, we've compiled our favourite road bikes for every price point to hopefully give you an idea of what you should be going for. What do you think of my selection?

Links to bikes here:

00:00 - Intro
00:24 - £1000, Triban
02:15 - £2000, Specialized
04:04 - £3000, Giant
05:36 - £5000, Canyon
07:05 - £8000, Trek
09:19 - £12000, Cannondale
11:02 - Outro

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[xHITSQUADx]

I was expecting to see one in the $500 range. 😂

[andras.]

Big UP for the Decathlon RC520 (would say also it has plenty of muggard-bike packing mount places, truly an all year-all around fast adventure roadbike), my first ever road bike. I upgraded to 11-34 Shimano casette to have 1-1 ratio, currently running on 32mm gravel tyres and I switched to a shorter, 165mm true RC7000 105 crankset up front to better match up my short legs.

Love it. I am learning everything on it, I have reseted front brake pistons, true-d wheels, and I also had fun to upgrade the listed parts by myself.

Can't wait to "award" myself a next-level bike in 2-3 years :)

[patrickbourne]

Just want to address the elephant in the room you don't need £1000 to buy a good bike.

I brought my bike second hand for £130, replaced the wheels for £250 and it's fantastic! Super light with an aluminium frame, carbon fork (old but still good). Be sure to check out the second hand market and try bikes on the cheaper end before buying a £3000 bike.

[DennisNowland]

Tell you what, you don't get much of a bike for £2000 nowadays, not with your recommended bike anyway.

[boerhenkcb]

If you don't get Shimano 105 and hydraulic disk brakes for 2000 pounds, you have been ripped of big time. A Merida Scultura (endurance) 400 or Bergamont Grandurance 8 or RD7 would be a way better suggestion. And their are a lot more. It is even hard to find a bike that offers less bang for your money than the suggested Allez...

[RussNicholls]

If you have a £2000 budget, get the Triban and spend the spare cash on upgrades, bike trips

[Xirbtt]

Best price for "Every budget" and the budget starts at 1000? You are out of your mind.

[clas]

Specialized, Cannondale and Trek offers very little value. I do agree with your other choices. Rose is another good value brand though not quite as good as it used to be.

[fraserthomson]

Double the value you get and buy a 12-24 month old 2nd hand bike. Take your time looking and you can still find someone who got into cycling during covid but has lost interest and has a bike with not much kms.

[Mauriceweller]

Rose bikes offer their Pro Sl Disc for 1700€ with 105 and one for 2000€ with an Ultegra. Really good value brand

[zaqmailify]

Nonono. Best bike ever it is my canyon ultimate sl when I get 1.5 year ago. With rim brake and Shimano 105 groupset, and my second hand carbon wheelset it bike have weight 7.2kg and price 1700e. for bike and 350e for wheels.

Unfortunately we will never see prices like this again...😢😢😢

[GatorDevastator]

How can you recomend specialized alez? So overpriced

[vapingfastbreak]

Starting at 1k and saying 3k is a popular price is the exact reason why road cyclists especially get a bad rep

[woodworks]

I love how on bike channels middle class people telling us that £1000 is the budget bike. When you look at the figures the average cost of a bike in the UK is under £500 so half or less that your starting figure. Most people don't ride a cervelo or pinarello £5000 bike. Most people are buying bicycles from Halfords, Argos etc.

[ArnageLM]

I can get a new TCR 105 disc (yes, carbon) for about 2000€. It maybe a 2021 or 2022 model, but still better than an alloy bike.

[eviltaz]

I am in the market for a new bike and the one that has caught my eye is the Cannondale Caad series. I have not pull the trigger yet since the current version has a pressfit BB, hopefully they will update the frame and change to threaded BB and then I'll buy me one. However, y dream bike is the enve melee but can't justify the price. Well, dream oh dream...

[davidleonard]

Imagine spending €8k on a bike and still not getting the best specs available. The bike world's gone crazy. Second hand bike for me the next time. Lots of almost new great bikes floating around.

[qwertyx]

There you go folk's That's how "GATE KEEPING" works. Steep Buy in

[philliesblunt]

I would recommend just staying with Canyon at all price levels.🤩

[alparius]

Am I understanding it right that the 1k bike has the same groupset as the 8k one? :O