Buying Your First Road Bike

At Westbrook Cycles, we are lucky enough to be based in the beautiful market town of Stokesley, surrounded by brilliant roads which criss cross beautiful countryside, including the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. This makes our area a haven for road cycling, a hobby and form of exercise that holds something for everybody. 

Whether it’s a gentle ride along smooth tarmac roads or an arduous hill climb amongst some of the wildest B roads around, road cycling can be as leisurely or as tough as you want it to be. It’s this freedom which sees many customers coming to us to get into road biking for the first time. 

Some of these customers come to us knowing exactly what road bike they want, whilst others are quite rightly intimidated by the massive amount of choice and options available across the marketplace. Regardless of the type of road bike you choose, a few things are guaranteed:

• All have thin tyres
• All have multiple gears
• All have lightweight frames
• All have drop handlebars

That is however, where the similarities stop. The biggest difference between road bikes is usually frame material choice - so below, we run through a few different bikes suitable for first time road cyclists - at different price points and budgets. 

• Steel Framed Road Bikes
• Aluminium Framed Road Bikes
• Carbon Fibre Road Bikes