upgrade road bike or total swap to hybrid??

[photography27]

cycle to work is doing 1 last round at our works, but i dont know what to do...do i go for a better road bike (spesh secteur at the moment), was thinking about cube peleton or do i go for hybrid bike...i like the look of the cube nature.....dont have to be cube make.

dunno what to do lol
any advice?

 

[Cubist]

Depends on what you don't like about your roadbike that a hybrid would do any better?

What's your budget? That Peloton looks like a helluva lotta bike for the money.
The Cube Curves, Natures, Overland etc all strike me as a bit heavy (typically over the 13kg mark)

 

[photography27]

commuting to work, and maybe a little cycling with my daughter on her bike.

as for my road bike, the only thing i am getting annoyed about it is the constant bumps in the road that transfer through the bars to the hands.

 

[Cubist]

Gel tape? Gel gloves? Can you keep up with your daughter on the Spesh?

 

[snailracer]

commuting to work, and maybe a little cycling with my daughter on her bike.

as for my road bike, the only thing i am getting annoyed about it is the constant bumps in the road that transfer through the bars to the hands.

Leaning forward puts more weight on your hands and so bumps will make them ache more. To take the weight off them, you could try raising your bars so you sit more upright, or fitting cross brakes so you can ride on the tops more often, which is the most upright handlebar position on a drop bar (apart from no-hands).

 

[Cyclist33]

Road bike.

Stu

 

[Melonfish]

Cyclocross, go half and half!

 

[Soltydog]

Buy a new road bike & then sell the old one to fund the purchase of a cheaper hybrid just for commuting

 

[XmisterIS]

Depending on how much room you've got left at the top of the steerer, you could either take the stem off and put a couple of spacers in, or get a shorter stem with more of an angle on it (and MTB stem would do the job), or do both stem and spacers. That would bring the bars up and back, giving you a more comfortable riding position for the princely sum of about £20. And you could sell the old stem on EBay and get a little money back. When you look at spacers, all you need is to have both clamp bolts below the top of the steerer and you're good to go. Some bikes are sold with an extra inch of steerer above the clamp and some spacers between the top bolt and the clamp so that you can adjust as you like. All in all it's a ten minute job with a 5mm allen key.

 

[Jezston]

commuting to work, and maybe a little cycling with my daughter on her bike.

as for my road bike, the only thing i am getting annoyed about it is the constant bumps in the road that transfer through the bars to the hands.

My full alu hybrid is the worst bike I've ever owned for passing bumps in the road to my wrists - having flat bars with one hand position is bad enough - the fact it was a bit too big for me didn't help either!

 

[jonny jeez]

commuting to work, and maybe a little cycling with my daughter on her bike.

as for my road bike, the only thing i am getting annoyed about it is the constant bumps in the road that transfer through the bars to the hands.

carbon bars...

and forks come to that (if your current steed does not hasve them...I dont know how old the secteur is and wheter it co mes with carbon forks