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Colleague with cabin fever seeks bike advice

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  • Started 4 years ago by unhurt
  • Latest reply from sallyhinch

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  1. unhurt
    Member

    Talked her out of a sub-£300 entry level "road bike" and now she's eyeing one of these:

    https://octane-one.com/bike/gridd_flat/

    I am trying to give good advice but she has not been forthcoming re: what sort of cyling she might want to do beyond "I hate walking on pavements. I just want a way to get out that doesn't involve the drudgery of walking in circles every day."!

    Note: she currently runs / crossfits / goes up hills / punches stuff. So fitness not an issue, but bike fit might be if bought online without previous cycling experience...

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. gembo
    Member

    @unhurt, does your pal live near a gravel path that is not being already used by 100s of other runners and cyclists?

    I would go with nice sit up and beg for 1 hour max shopping trips

    Or

    Super fast road bike for doing 20 miles in an hour

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    She should totally like borrow a bike and wash it with bleach and then ride it. How else can she know?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. sallyhinch
    Member

    Normally I would suggest a secondhand bike for someone's first bike because whatever she buys, after a year it's likely to be the wrong bike but by then she'll know what she wants, or it will have been in the shed for 11 months, and either way she won't have wasted as much money. I know the bike station is shut - are there other secondhand places still open?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    Insider knowledge (from facebook post about this) suggests unhurt persuaded pal away from shonky entry level bike and colleague catapulted to very fancy gravellator. Flat bars though yeuch. Well unhurt mentions that here too. Borrowing would be normal thing to do. Buying without trying off internet NO

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Bike Station might return soon with new rigorous working practices?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  7. wingpig
    Member

    The 'gravel' thing but replace the flat bars with a: bullhorns, or b: Alabama longhorn-horns or whatever 3' wide things iwrats has. OR go straight for adventure-specialism and a Latitude or full-on fat bike, which can still be used for transport and shopping but also requires lots for fitness/effort and can be used for adventuresome exercise?

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  8. gembo
    Member

    @wingpig, for running on rollers?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @wingpig

    No one is allowed Jones H-Loops unless they have facial hair, a straight razor and a sourdough starter named after a beat poet. @unhurt thinks she's safe but the hipster police are just crafting a brass and mahogany paddy wagon to come get her.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  10. unhurt
    Member

    Maybe I should have said that's she's in Dunfermline. So less bike shops available...

    She now really likes the looks of this after I made some suggestions:

    https://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/bike/cda-20-2020

    Posted 4 years ago #

  11. sallyhinch
    Member

    Are those of us with a sourdough starter named after a US president, facial hair (thanks! menopause) and a garden full of hares allowed butterfly bars though?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  12. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I'm unsure of the Rules on butterfly bars but in my world if you have a hare garden you can do pretty much whatever you like and the universe will smile indulgently.

    Is your sourdough also rhyming slang?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  13. sallyhinch
    Member

    A friend on Twitter called it 'Carter the unstoppable bread machine'.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  14. gembo
    Member

    @unhurt ask her if she knows one hour around Dunfermline (well 30 mins out and back) takes you to some cracking places - eg Culross

    Posted 4 years ago #

  15. Chug
    Member

    Maybe your friend wasn't referencing the 39th President...maybe more of this lot:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_the_Unstoppable_Sex_Machine
    Infamous for rugby tackling Philip Schofield live on stage and having a song banned by the Beeb during the gulf war.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  16. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    CdA 20 is nice, my main commuter. Had mine 7 years & no issues. Not the lightest. Mechanical disc brakes are a bit of a letdown, swapped my front one out and the Promax ones on this year's version may be a step down again (mine had TRP brakes).

    Posted 4 years ago #

  17. Harts Cyclery
    Member

    Hate to be all old-fashioned about this, but your colleague could just visit one of the many excellent city bike shops that are still open and seek advice on a new bicycle ;-)

    Posted 4 years ago #

  18. unhurt
    Member

    I suggested that, but she's in the wilds of Dunfermline... I did say she should phone round some shops!

    Looks like she's just gone for the Genesis. She is a bit impatient. And was a bit surprised to find she had to buy pedals separately!

    Thanks everyone for input anyway!

    Posted 4 years ago #

  19. sallyhinch
    Member

    @Chug - yes indeed, I think that was what she meant. It was I who named the starter Jimmy Carter (the starter) after a president I have long admired since I learned that he was the only US president who lowered the tariffs on peanut imports despite also famously being a peanut farmer.

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