Decent road bike for under £500
Decent road bike for under £500
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70's or 80's Japanese road bike in good shape....why Japansese? Because parts are easy to find, some British and French and Italian bikes from that era look great and ride nicely, but parts can sometimes be hard to find....
Japanese road bikes can often be found for $200 or so after it's been looked at by a good bike mechanic...
New handlebars, check the bottom bracket and stem, be sure wheels and frame straight, try to find columbus tubing or Reynolds 531, but there are various Fuji and other japanese lightweight alloys that are nice too...
Old road bikes can easily be converted to fixies... check for horizontal dropouts where the rear wheel attaches....