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Quote: Horatio Yed "Colour and size maybe not what you're looking for but something like this
The first issue to address is what is the bike going to be used for, and the problem with shopping from Gumtree or eBay is that you get what you're given, which might not be exactly what you want.
The bike in your link would be fine for riding off road (and I don't include canal side riding in "off road"icon_wink.gif but pretty much crap for a beginner who is taking it on road/path/canalside and who will then wonder why they can't get the same sort of speed up as everyone else and why it takes so much effort to go so slow.
Gears and tyres are going to affect your road/path experience far, far more than anything else that is fixed to the bike, forget the whole specification thing as you aren't going to have a choice at the budget selected, but just get the best tyres (not mountain bike tyres) and the biggest range of gears that you can find, then get sized properly by the shop - nothing else matters.
I agree with the other two that a specialist bike shop is always a great place to shop but again you come down to the budget, I love the Edinburgh Bike Co-ops but you won't find much in there for the price stated - thats why Halfords is still a good bet, many don't like them but you're not trying to pick their brains beyond the basics (and I've always found their assistants to have good experience of riding on all sorts of terrain, maybe I just got lucky).
The only places I wouldn't recommend are the ones that spring up on industrial estates everywhere, take a short term rent on an empty warehouse and then fill it full of cheap imported bikes which will probably last a season if you're lucky, someone I know bought a bike a couple of years ago from one of those near York, we took him and it on our coast to coast ride, he was totally mystified why his new bike was still such hard work (it was a hybrid but with very small mountain bike gearing), it was heavy, it wasn't set up right for him, and he and it were shagged after 160 miles.
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, I'm 5 ft 8 so I'm thinking an 18 inch frame?
