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Recommendations for Hybrid Bikes (his and hers)

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Re: Recommendations for Hybrid Bikes (his and hers)

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Postby Clariman » April 27th, 2017, 8:58 pm

redsturgeon wrote:
Clariman wrote:Our local bike shop is recommending one of these http://www.ridgeback.co.uk/bikes/city/metro/element

Disc brakes, hydraulic brakes, lightweight frame, 27 speed gears.

Any thoughts?

C


Looks reasonably well specced for the price and meets your needs as stated originally. Will he let you try them out? Does he suggest anything else at a similar price point to compare them with? For your needs you could argue that hydraulic brakes are not really necessary, unless you are thinking big hill and wet conditions.

John

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We live up a bit of a hill, so anywhere we would cycle from home would involve climbs :( , so that is why he shifted from 9 gears to 3x9 and I the better quality components of that model.

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Re: Recommendations for Hybrid Bikes (his and hers)

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Postby piccadilly » April 28th, 2017, 8:50 am

Clariman wrote:Our local bike shop is recommending one of these http://www.ridgeback.co.uk/bikes/city/metro/element

Disc brakes, hydraulic brakes, lightweight frame, 27 speed gears.

Any thoughts?

C

My friend has owned a Ridgeback for the last 25 years - not as high specced as this.

She has ridden many of the UK trails on it and the times I have borrowed it I have found it to be very comfortable and easy to ride.I could ride it all day .

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Re: Recommendations for Hybrid Bikes (his and hers)

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Postby piccadilly » April 28th, 2017, 8:57 am

You may also look at ebay - a colleague of mine picked up an excellent Ridgeback Hybrid for one hundred and fifty pounds.If you do not enjoy cycling ,as I have witnessed with some people, then you will not have six hundred pounds stuck in the shed.

I just completed the Trans Pennine trail on a Marin hybrid also a first class ride.

Too many choices here!

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Re: Recommendations for Hybrid Bikes (his and hers)

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Postby UncleEbenezer » April 28th, 2017, 11:09 am

piccadilly wrote:You may also look at ebay - a colleague of mine picked up an excellent Ridgeback Hybrid for one hundred and fifty pounds.If you do not enjoy cycling ,as I have witnessed with some people, then you will not have six hundred pounds stuck in the shed.
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Chicken - egg.

A lot of those people who have bikes sitting unloved in a shed are precisely those whose thought process was: "Let's get something cheap to see if we enjoy it first, then take it from there." The cheap bike is a chore rather than a pleasure, so £150 turns out much more expensive per mile than £1500 would have been.

I wouldn't buy a bike secondhand. In a bike whose basic quality is good enough to be rideable, the risk that it's stolen goods is far too high.


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