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The helpful advice you're getting in the road bike thread is the exact reason I did what I did.
You definitely shouldn't listen to me, I had a 3k road bike budget with no idea what I wanted, so my eventual purchase was evidently a terrible, terrible mistake. I'm 5'4" tall with 700c instead of 650b on all my bikes, and I have a 29er even though obviously it's so small that the geometry makes it completely unrideable, and I use rear racks instead of front racks, and I also use spacers/don't use spacers on my headsets, and rim brakes instead of whatever else it is I'm supposed to be using to make my bikes usable. I'm very happy with all of my bikes, but, y'know. I'm deluded. And clueless. With bikes that don't work and that are uncomfortable. I've imagined all the many, many, comfortable and happy miles I've ridden, I guess.
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The first place I recommended was bespoke funnily enough! Have only been for a £100 "intro bikefit" ages ago but they really impressed me.
Thought that should be the sort of company with his budget/style of riding. He's in hampshire but I reckon he'll come up here for it.