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So, I hit the dreaded three-oh this August, and have made a silly decision to ride to Spain as some kind of a send off to my youth.
Normally, I would just build something up from a nice 531(st?) frame and bits from this here forum, but my decision happened to coincide with my work deciding to run cyclescheme for the first time, so I figure I might as well spunk a grand (it's free money if you don't have to pay it back in one go, obviously...)
I don't really want to get a full-on tourer with discs etc, as we are planning on travelling extremely light and passing out under a bivvy every night after several bottles of Bordeaux. It would probably also get used for my daily 14 mile flat commute, so I don't want a total tank. I would also like something at least a little bit cool if that is at all possible, most of the new bikes I have looked at make me want to do a sick.
Alternative is to just spend my voucher on a Dolan track and build up a tourer from bits...
tl;dr: cyclescheme voucher burning a hole, tell me what to buy