craigwend
Grimpeur des terrains plats
I think it was ( one of the) your husbands galaxy in the group of 5 I mentioned?
End of the Galaxy
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Cathryn
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire
I did wonder if we were there! I was super pregnant...we had the baby four days later! Do you still have that photo?
Cathryn
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire
What a lovely treat to see this photo! Thank you for sharing!
Cathryn
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire
One of my very favourite photos!
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
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- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
" a dedicated tourer optimised for racks and panniers?"
So they drilled and tapped a few holes?
So they drilled and tapped a few holes?
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- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
I hadn't 'til now but thought something was up when I looked at their website recently and couldn't find any touring models. It seems to me as though they've tried to reinvent the range annually for the last few years. I'm not sure that's the way to sell them to touring riders who are looking for a bike to do a job well, not to have whatever this years fashionable frame shape is. Genesis, Ridgeback, Spa and Thorn all seem to get that.Wow, that’s a shock and sad. @Rickshaw Phil have you seen this
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SkipdiverJohn
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- London
I think the rot set in once they stopped building lugged 531 Galaxy frames with horizontal top tubes. The same can be said for the Raleigh Royal/Randonneur. A large part of the touring market is ultra-conservative and lugged lightweight steel is what those buyers wanted. By attempting to force the buyers into adopting a new style of bike they didn't particularly want, all the manufacturers achieved is to put those customers off buying any kind of bike from them. All that will happen is those customers will occasionally purchase a new wheelset and replace some worn drivetrain parts, and simply keep using their old 531 frames, which are not going to wear out.
Juan Kog
permanently grumpy
That’s not the right way to wear a Camel Back .
Smokin Joe
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Small diameter tubes make a compact frame look ridiculous.
SkipdiverJohn
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- London
They look ridiculous anyway, irrespective of the type of tubing used. Conventional sizing was essentially based on minimum acceptable bar height and maximum comfortable standover height - and it worked perfectly so long as the size increments offered by the maker weren't too coarse. High quality frames generally came in inch increments from about 21" to 25" in mens versions, and they would fit 99% of riders well enough.
The only real justification for compacts is wide rider size coverage with only a few frame sizes, but that doesn't hold any water if the manufacturer offers frames in small 2cm increments. They might as well just revert to horizontal top tubes and full sized frames.
All they have achieved is reduced space to store water bottles and pumps within the frame triangle, in addition to making bikes look ugly.
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Cathryn's plan to smuggle a friend into the Chippendales ladies evening had one slight shortcoming.
Cathryn
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire
I literally don’t understand a word of this! I admire people who know stuff like this but I’m just bothered if the bike is comfy and if I like it enough to give it a name!
SkipdiverJohn
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- London
Compact geometry frame = abnormally small for the size of rider, sloping top tube, loads of seatpost sticking out. Like where a kid has outgrown a bike but is trying to get another year out of it by using an extra long seatpost and the saddle set really high.
