Indecision: Why Road over Hybrid?

[slowmotion]

I discovered cycling again, four years ago, and at a great age. I bought a lightweight skinny hybrid Dawes 501. Great for road rides, commuting, cycle paths and really short credit card tours. A year ago last February, I bought a road bike. It took me a long, long time to get used to drops but.......I have never been on the hybrid since the day I bought it. Currently I'm doing up the hybrid for my teenage daughter.

(Still rubbish at this cycling thing, but enjoying it more and more)

 

[aces_up1504]

cheers for the continued imput in this thread.

I weighed up the pro and cons of each type of bike and what i wanted to get out of cycling. While browsing the forum i found a thread on the Chesire Cat 2013 and thought that is something i would like to do and the type of riding i want to be able to accomplish.

So £500 it is on a road bike and another £100 on the bits of bobs.

So anyone care to tell what to spend it on?

 

[MarkF]

Got both, I couldn't do with just one. But if I was forced to choose only one, it'd be the hybrid. Depends on what the OP intends to use his bike for, most of the time.

Hybrid, I use this for leisure, touring, commuting and shopping. With a Blackburn touring rack it is very useful indeed. On a day ride it gives me the option of leaving the roads and putting the M+ 35mm to use on trails and towpaths. I use my road bike purely for fun, therefore it has 23mm tyres and not enough gears to do what the hybrid does.

 

[Longshot]

cheers for the continued imput in this thread.

I weighed up the pro and cons of each type of bike and what i wanted to get out of cycling. While browsing the forum i found a thread on the Chesire Cat 2013 and thought that is something i would like to do and the type of riding i want to be able to accomplish.

So £500 it is on a road bike and another £100 on the bits of bobs.

So anyone care to tell what to spend it on?

Neil - as you know I'm a recent returnee to cycling. Because of that and unlike the other hobby we share, I have built up little to no brand loyalty (or disloyalty) to date on bikes. Since I started to look round at bikes, reading up on here and talking to other cyclists, I have to say that the Giant Defy range is one that always gets a great write-up, especially as a start-up bike. If you were to get the triple you'd have the wider range of gearing too.

http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-gb/bikes/model/2013.giant.defy.4.triple/11833/57501/

It's priced at £625 by Giant themselves but I would expect you should be able to find a 'last year's model' or discounted one somewhere.

 

[Longshot]

For example...

http://www.ashcycles.com/site/giant...-goods?zenid=b7f40f06217f6d382014680872631263

£520!

 

[aces_up1504]

Cheers Si, for brand loyality i would need to know about the brands. If it had not been for you mentioning your bike on another forum i would had never heard of specialized before.

 

[Sittingduck]

B:Twin triban 3 and spend the rest on a Garmin Edge and a set of quality tyres

 

[helston90]

B:Twin triban 3 and spend the rest on a Garmin Edge and a set of quality tyres

I was waiting for that- is there any of lifes 'what bike?' problems that can't be solved with a triban 3?

 

[aces_up1504]

Probably mine as it needs to bought using the cycle to work scheme from halfords or a shop will uses the scheme