£400 to Get a Bike - Where? What?

sebby78 I ride the Charge Plug and have nothing but positives with it - the frame is built like a tank. I know this because I t-boned a car, left a big dent in its side and broke my hand, but the frame was fine (the wheels weren't though).

My word of advice though is that if you buy it, you'll go through your first set of brake pads like a hot knife through butter (I swear they're made from paper) and the tyres suck up broken glass like a sponge. So buy some replacement tyres ASAP from your LBS or Wiggle.

Other than that, 6 months and no major problems.

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Yeah, it might seem a bit agricultural to the weenies, and it doesn't have that crazy track geometry everyone seems to go nuts for, but it's just plain nice to ride. Every time I have to move even my stripped down, aluminium, no-suspension mountain bike from one miserable, dank, lonely corner of the house to another, I remember how heavy bikes in the rest of the cycling world are.