OP
OP
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Well,
I took it out for a spin last night, it is actually OK! It's not fast, but then I didn't buy it for speed. When I want to cycle faster than cars I get on my new-fangled full carbon contraption of the very Devil himself (as some of you would have it called, I'm sure!
).
It is a tad small for me, but at £40 I'm not complaining. I took up some slack in the brakes, but I need to remember that they're not hydraulic disc brakes! (That scared me slightly when I was approaching a junction, slammed on the anchors and realised I wasn't going to stop in time ....).
I wanted to adjust the saddle to move it backwards ... then I disovered that instead of being a saddle with rails bolted into an adjustable rocker at the top of the seat post, there is like a giant bolt through the bit on the saddle where I would expect rails to be - looks like you can't move the saddle forwards and backwards.
"Fairy snuff", thought I, "Now to raise the handlebars!" ... then I discovered that it doesn't have an Aheadset and when I slackened the central bolt at the top of the stem, the stem won't budge. Either I need to slacken the nut at the top of the head tube, or the stem is rusted solid.
And I don't like the handlebars, I'll replace them with MTB risers. But I will live with the bars as they are for the moment!
(waits patiently for the screams for horror at the prospect of replacing the bars with a pair of risers, like these ...).
I took it out for a spin last night, it is actually OK! It's not fast, but then I didn't buy it for speed. When I want to cycle faster than cars I get on my new-fangled full carbon contraption of the very Devil himself (as some of you would have it called, I'm sure!
).It is a tad small for me, but at £40 I'm not complaining. I took up some slack in the brakes, but I need to remember that they're not hydraulic disc brakes! (That scared me slightly when I was approaching a junction, slammed on the anchors and realised I wasn't going to stop in time ....).
I wanted to adjust the saddle to move it backwards ... then I disovered that instead of being a saddle with rails bolted into an adjustable rocker at the top of the seat post, there is like a giant bolt through the bit on the saddle where I would expect rails to be - looks like you can't move the saddle forwards and backwards.
"Fairy snuff", thought I, "Now to raise the handlebars!" ... then I discovered that it doesn't have an Aheadset and when I slackened the central bolt at the top of the stem, the stem won't budge. Either I need to slacken the nut at the top of the head tube, or the stem is rusted solid.
And I don't like the handlebars, I'll replace them with MTB risers. But I will live with the bars as they are for the moment!
(waits patiently for the screams for horror at the prospect of replacing the bars with a pair of risers, like these ...
).
