Happy new owner of a Dawes World Tour 1997

[looe]

Hi all,
I am a happy new owner of a 1997 Dawes World Tour and I have a few questions:
Was this bike a success or not? Very little info found on the net about this bike.

What do you think about it?

Did it come with Deore LX as standard?

Thank you

 

[kettle]

hi
do not know this bike well I have a dawes horizon of 2 years and love it. I know there are some questions about the recent dawes re the frames coming from the far east but I have never come across anybody comfirming this.
I think with the date on yours it will be A1.
The baseline is that dawes is the standard.
Enjoy

 

[PpPete]

Not a model i'm familiar with.
Can you post a picture?

Dawes certainly used Deore LX on the Galaxy range around that time.
The Galaxy has of course long been a benchmark as far as touring bikes are concerned, but I think they were still Reynolds 531 steel tube in 1997.

 

[looe]

Not a model i'm familiar with.
Can you post a picture?

I will try to take a picture ASAP

 

[elduderino]

I believe Tim Barnes and his wife both used Dawes World Tours for a ride across Europe and Central Asia in 2006 http://www.timbarnes.ndo.co.uk/equipment.htm


This is taken from his website :- We don't know much about bike frames. The only things that gave us any grief were:

• Lack of sufficient clearance between the tyre and the mudguards. This meant the wheels just about siezed when we went through any mud.
• Mudguards - ours were SKS, which are supposed to be quite good, but they just weren't up to the job, i.e. too insubstantial, always getting bent out of shape. A real pain

If they were the only problems they had with the bikes, then winner

 

[looe]

I believe Tim Barnes and his wife both used Dawes World Tours for a ride across Europe and Central Asia in 2006 http://www.timbarnes.ndo.co.uk/equipment.htm

Wow,
thanks for that elduderino, didn't come up when I did a Google.....Exactly as my bike, same colour and same awesome butterfly

 

[Creamcrackered]

Yup, both our Dawes World tours are still going strong. There's more detail on how they have performed over the years at:
http://www.adventure-cycling-guide.co.uk/bike4.htm
Cheers
Tim

 

[looe]

Yup, both our Dawes World tours are still going strong. There's more detail on how they have performed over the years at:
http://www.adventure-cycling-guide.co.uk/bike4.htm
Cheers
Tim

Nice one Tim.
Many thanks

 

[Frank Kelly]

Yup, both our Dawes World tours are still going strong. There's more detail on how they have performed over the years at:
http://www.adventure-cycling-guide.co.uk/bike4.htm
Cheers
Tim

Hi Tim the website doesn't seem to be working , id love to have a look at your experiences if possible best regards Frank

 

[Brandane]

Hi Tim the website doesn't seem to be working , id love to have a look at your experiences if possible best regards Frank

Welcome to CycleChat!
As a new member you probably haven't noticed that you have revived a thread that is 11 years old, and Creamcrackered hasn't been logged in for 3 years.
Having said that, the link still works for me, strangely.
Enjoy the site, and if you want more info on that particular bike then I would suggest starting a new thread in this section (or maybe even General Cycling), and some helpful person will be along shortly. There is a lot of collective knowledge on here .

Edit to add..... Results for a site search on "Dawes World Tour" , click here.

 

[IaninSheffield]

Hi Tim the website doesn't seem to be working , id love to have a look at your experiences if possible best regards Frank

Hi Frank. If you shorten Tim's site's address slightly to http://www.adventure-cycling-guide.co.uk/, you should be able to have a look around, but as @Brandane noted about this thread, it's a long while since the site was last updated. Still interesting though.

 

[GuyBoden]

I've got a 1977 Galaxy for pottering around Cheshire, very comfy ride. The Suntour Vx rear derailleur works faultlessly after all these years. A classic bike.