Widge
Baldy Go
Nice to meet you all and what a great community you have going here!
I have been in love with bicycles since my teens.
I have spent most of my life though in gut-churningly hillly Devon so have mostly enjoyed throwing myself off Dartmoor on an MTB which I spent many happy hours building and tweaking.
I am, sadly, rather unfit now.....i suspect my rocky roots days might be over................(I'm 54) but all this time I have thought...',,,one day, the time will be right for a road bike?'
Well... I enjoy taking my full sus MTB out on the country lanes-but my word-is it ever HEAVY! It is beautifully set up and responsive but you can't escape the full-up 30lbs weight.
So
I look to the webz to see what alternatives might be there.
Ideally I would like a CHEAP but well sorted lightweight road-bike with the option of attaching touring racks/panniers and a triple ring to get me up the hillls. I bit of a tall order methinks?
This afternoon I unpacked my mail-order 'Triban3' ....spent 15 mins with a spanner making sure everythin was tight and........
.........I was out on the lanes having a country blast! Honestly chaps and chappesses (and I know you're sick of hearing it,) What a lot of bike for twoo ninie nine ninety five! I worked out that just the drive chain alone would cost a couple of hundred smackers AND Decathlon send you FREE lights (broken) and chocolate energy bars as welll!.
The bike ran within minutes of unpacking and is simply stunning. Anybody else here have one?
The gear indexingis a bit chattery at the moment and the contact points need a bit of fine tuning to fit 100 percent but I am thoroughly converted to the joys of lightweight road-riding and already thinking about some little tours etc. Wish I was a bit fitter.
Two passing roadies I met in a pub last week told me to 'Go for it' so I took them at their word.
I'm thrilled.
All best from a better-late-than never road cyclist.
W
I have been in love with bicycles since my teens.
I have spent most of my life though in gut-churningly hillly Devon so have mostly enjoyed throwing myself off Dartmoor on an MTB which I spent many happy hours building and tweaking.
I am, sadly, rather unfit now.....i suspect my rocky roots days might be over................(I'm 54) but all this time I have thought...',,,one day, the time will be right for a road bike?'
Well... I enjoy taking my full sus MTB out on the country lanes-but my word-is it ever HEAVY! It is beautifully set up and responsive but you can't escape the full-up 30lbs weight.
So
I look to the webz to see what alternatives might be there.
Ideally I would like a CHEAP but well sorted lightweight road-bike with the option of attaching touring racks/panniers and a triple ring to get me up the hillls. I bit of a tall order methinks?
This afternoon I unpacked my mail-order 'Triban3' ....spent 15 mins with a spanner making sure everythin was tight and........
.........I was out on the lanes having a country blast! Honestly chaps and chappesses (and I know you're sick of hearing it,) What a lot of bike for twoo ninie nine ninety five! I worked out that just the drive chain alone would cost a couple of hundred smackers AND Decathlon send you FREE lights (broken) and chocolate energy bars as welll!.
The bike ran within minutes of unpacking and is simply stunning. Anybody else here have one?
The gear indexingis a bit chattery at the moment and the contact points need a bit of fine tuning to fit 100 percent but I am thoroughly converted to the joys of lightweight road-riding and already thinking about some little tours etc. Wish I was a bit fitter.
Two passing roadies I met in a pub last week told me to 'Go for it' so I took them at their word.
I'm thrilled.
All best from a better-late-than never road cyclist.
W