Hi from Glasgow!

[Loueese]

Hi and welcome.

Maybe something like a straight handle bar road bike? The one I’ve linked is listed as 11.3kg, not lightweight, but not heavy.

https://www.trekbikes.com/gb/en_GB/...fx/fx-3-disc-stagger/p/35055/?colorCode=black

Thanks. That's still a bit I heavy, I suspect, and too expensive...
Louise

 

[Loueese]

Greetings from the other side
Do you know if you want straight bars or dropped ?

Thanks - straight as on a hybrid
Louise

 

[Loueese]

Hi ya
Unless I was heavily into off roading I don't think I'd carry the excess weight of any suspension. Personally I would go for a drop bar bike (like a dropped bar roadbike, a cyclocross or a gravel bike in rough order of weight/ comfort/robustness) but I know thats not everybodies cup of tea perhaps look at a flat bar road bike or just another hybrid but without suspension.

PS @Pat "5mph" another Glasgow lady maybe for your expanding Belles 👍

Yeah, I'll be mostly riding off-road so not sure if I can get away without suspension. I'd want a flat bar around £700 or less. I doubt I'll be going any great distance - probably no more than a few miles.
Thanks
Louise

 

[Loueese]

Sadly that can sometimes be the case. When not provided on the dealer/manufacturer website, I invariably try a search engine using the bike model and adding the word 'weight' e.g. 'Pinnacle Cobalt 1 weight' - that sometimes works. There's also a website https://99spokes.com/en-GB which attempts to catalogue all the useful stats and figures for different bike models. Although it doesn't always have the weight - bikes are sometimes configurable with different componentry so it's not possible to give a single weight - it does allow you to compare different bikes side-by-side.

Good luck with your search 👍

Yeah, I've been to 99Spokes. At the moment I'm just looking at comparisons and if I can find the make/model I think I want then I'll obviously go have a look and feel the weight.
Thanks
Louise

 

[cyberknight]

Yeah, I'll be mostly riding off-road so not sure if I can get away without suspension. I'd want a flat bar around £700 or less. I doubt I'll be going any great distance - probably no more than a few miles.
Thanks
Louise

depends what you mean by off road, if your only doing cycle / gravel paths you should be ok without it .heck i have ridden across a footie field on my road bike on 23 mm tyres !
I was going suggest a folder to make it easier to store/ carry up and down the stairs but i am unsure if something like that would be something you would be interested in as decent ones are not cheap assuming you want one with at least 26 " wheels

 

[Loueese]

depends what you mean by off road, if your only doing cycle / gravel paths you should be ok without it .heck i have ridden across a footie field on my road bike on 23 mm tyres !
I was going suggest a folder to make it easier to store/ carry up and down the stairs but i am unsure if something like that would be something you would be interested in as decent ones are not cheap assuming you want one with at least 26 " wheels

Some of the paths and trails around here can be quite uneven and bumpy... No, I don't want a folding bike though thanks for the suggestion. I might be going across fields and stuff so I'd probably want mtb tyres. It's rather hard to tell if I can get away without suspension and whether an urban/road hybrid can be used ok off road. Maybe I'll go along to one of the local bike shops and just have a look at some with/without suspension.
Thanks
Louise

 

[ColinJ]

Unfortunately it has to be upstairs and outside my flat door. I had the Cobalt 1 chained to railings outside my flat door on the second floor and that's where it got stolen from - only had it a few months

Do you mean that the new bike is going to be locked to the same railings?

Can't you find somewhere inside the flat to put it?

 

[DCBassman]

It's rather hard to tell if I can get away without suspension

Mountain bikes didn't always have suspension...hybrid with biggish tyres = job done. 2nd hand rigid mtb can be had easily, but as I also live upstairs, I can say that it would also be too heavy. I build my bikes out of other old bikes, so it can be easy to get exactly what's needed. Rigid hybrid, big tyres, boom!

 

[Loueese]

Do you mean that the new bike is going to be locked to the same railings?

Can't you find somewhere inside the flat to put it?

The railings are inside the building at the top of the stairs but outside the flat. The inside is behind a security door also, fwiw...
Louise

 

[Loueese]

Mountain bikes didn't always have suspension...hybrid with biggish tyres = job done. 2nd hand rigid mtb can be had easily, but as I also live upstairs, I can say that it would also be too heavy. I build my bikes out of other old bikes, so it can be easy to get exactly what's needed. Rigid hybrid, big tyres, boom!

Alas, I don't have the skills or the space to even attempt building my own. So it has to be 'off the shelf' The Liv Alight I mentioned is a lightweight hybrid with no suspension but I'm not sure if it's ok for bumpy, rough ground. Though I won't be speeding about at all! Once upon a time many years ago I had a Raleigh Lizard which didn't have suspension but was still quite heavy (as far as I can remember), but in those days I lived in a house with a big kitchen - so no problemo!

Thanks
Louise

 

[HLaB]

Once upon a time many years ago I had a Raleigh Lizard which didn't have suspension but was still quite heavy (as far as I can remember)

It probably was heavy, most bikes of that era were steel frames and forks. A lot of the newer hybrids have aluminium frames and just steel forks or carbon forks depending what you pay and are a lot lighter.

 

[Loueese]

It probably was heavy, most bikes of that era were steel frames and forks. A lot of the newer hybrids have aluminium frames and just steel forks or carbon forks depending what you pay and are a lot lighter.

I know!

Thanks

Louise