Cube Peloton Race review

Cube offers a great all-round package with its Peloton Race, £999

Cube Peloton Race

Cycling Weekly Verdict

So did the Cube live up to expectations? Absolutely. In fact, I’d go further: it’s almost sub-£1,000 cycling perfection. Of course, you can always hanker after a better groupset, or better components, or a carbon frame. But in the real world, from a mainstream manufacturer, you can’t ask for much more than this.

Reasons to buy
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    Complete Shimano 105 groupset

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    Mavic wheels and tyres

Reasons to avoid
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    Not much

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Isaw Cube’s Peloton Race at the NEC Cycle Show back in September, and with its red, white and blue colourway, my patriotic inner voice decided it was the prettiest bike I’d ever seen. If I’m honest, the Boardman has since eclipsed it in the image stakes, but it’s still a fine looking machine.

It’s even finer when you look at the spec sheet: a complete 105 groupset, Mavic Aksium wheels and excellent finishing kit. Like the Boardman, the frame is a fairly traditional affair by modern standards. It’s a compact shape — the top tube slopes down from front to back, with rounded, though not all perfectly round, tubes used throughout.

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