IcBlUsCrN
Vanessa's Drinking Buddy
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less exciting, but i shook off some of the winter rust on a hazy morning the other day.
I rode 50 miles ealier this week, the weather was excellent...and now we got 3" of snow, WTF?!
So what do you think of that water bottle?
Im looking at a good frame right now and i plan to build up a proper hardtail now.
Looking for new or used frame ? if your building up going used is a good way to save a ton. You can find deals on pinkbike.com
new. the one i'm looking at is a proper frame, but it's been discontinued and is super cheap right now.
LOL, who makes that bike?
So my work has a cycle to work scheme. Wherein you pick out a bike, an invoice gets sent to your work, they sign off on it, and you have a shiny new bike up to the cost of 1000 euro. I went to the bike shop today, had a look around, and a chat with the guy there. He recommended some models to me, so I figured I'd run it by you guys to see what's good and what's crap. He suggested the following:
The giant escape: https://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-us/bikes/model/escape.1/22180/83978/
The giant roam: https://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-us/bikes/model/roam.2/22193/84015/
The trek 7.1x: http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/city-bikes/fitness-bikes/fx/7-1-fx/p/1320010-2016
The Fuji absolute: http://www.fujibikes.com/bike/details/absolute-21-
I don't want any kind of racing bike, just a commuter that can handle the odd bumpy road, and my fat ass (I'm around 250 these days). So some sort of reinforced, beefy, with a bit of speed, hybrid bike. Personally I like the roam, but I haven't ridden in years, and last time I did it was bmx style 20 inch fun. Point me in the right direction folks.
My local shop isn't a big facility, so there's not likely models I can try out. They have some bikes in store which I think they just try to sell on and aren't demos. Though they might be. In any case I do like the Giants the best and after seeing the reviews for them all they seem the sturdiest. While the trek seemed prone to varied issues. With broken axles popping up a lot in complaints.I was pretty keen on a Fuji Absolute, but my shitty country doesn't get stock in for anything, so there were no demo models (I would have had to put a deposit down), so I never got to try one. And the Trek FXs were out of stock. As were the local version of the Giant Escape. But I hear good things about each, I believe they are fairly equivalent - the general advice I saw while looking was 'they are roughly the same, try them out and see which one feels best to you', if you have that option.