£400 to Get a Bike - Where? What?

asm nigel,

Um a word of warning - if you plan on road testing a bianchi pista, don't go to evans. I saw them hand a complete newbie a bianchi pista with no brakes and shitter than shit flat pedals for a test ride. That bike has a stock gearing of 48x16, which is higher than I ride with a brake and toe clips. I was in the evans for about half an hour and the dude didn't come back in that time...

^that was the evans on the cut by the way.

That is amazingly illegal. Someone posted about getting a ear-full from Evans staff when they brought their brakeless into the shop!