>>1048069I own two btwin bikes, one triban 3 I bought three years ago and one alur 700af which I bought extremely cheap some weeks ago.
I can say their road bikes are good enough and many of them have one of the best prices on the market. The tribans are good, even the cheapest ones, my triban 3 has microshift 8spd and never adjusted the shifting in more than 4.000km, the bad things about the bike are the cheap but strong wheels and that the front deraileur it's a bitch If you try to use the smaller ring (Thing I tried maybe three or four times in those 4k). As far I know, newer triban models are better because they have more clearance for bigger tyres so you could use up to 32mm If I'm not mistaken or 28mm+mudguards.
The triban 500 is pretty similar to my triban 3 (mine has bent fork and slightly different frame), so for 350 euro I could say you can't go wrong if you want a pretty reliable bike, because the bike is strong, this dude has more than 40k on his triban 3 and did long distance touring and endurance rides on it. I myself maybe this summer I will try some tour on my triban3.
