Cycleops
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- Accra, Ghana
Rideability and comfort trumps old skool fashion and nostalgia. Give me a good hybrid any day.
Rideability and comfort trumps old skool fashion and nostalgia. Give me a good hybrid any day.
Partly, but it also makes the bar/stem relationship better and keeps your centre of gravity lower.
Modern bikes all seem to have very high bottom brackets. My understanding is it was mostly done for litigation reasons (people clipping their pedals as they rode round corners). But it's all part of the move towards bikes being performance-oriented as opposed to transport-oriented.
Often we seem obsessed with the weight of bikes rather than how good they are to use. I know the brakes on old roadsters are dreadful (actually put some Kool-stop Continentals on and things improve a lot!) but they are very comfortable and practical machines to actually use. You don't need special clothes and the maintenance is easy - a teaspoon of gear oil every now and then. For many people, the getting to work bike was more or less perfected in about 1930.
What a cracking bikeThere's an old Raleigh Courier here in immaculate condition for only £50 if it's not too small (21").
Rideability and comfort trumps old skool fashion and nostalgia.
590mm alloy rims regularly appear on ebay
What a cracking bike