I'm plagued with indecision these days, just not my usual decisive self. Maybe there's too much choice or maybe my expectation is to high, but i just dont seem to know what i want.
"Gnar" 😆 😆 that would be fun, but been a while since ive had rough ground beneath me, and im not sure i ever will beyond some single track pathways. Maybe im just too old and to unfit and unhealthy to take on such challenges.
Here's what I have currently, set up for shop,commute or whatever. Its a nice well fitting bike, got all the bits that make it capable.
I cant get a pic to load, but its heres should anyone care to take a look
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/my-cove-stiffee-fr.432581/
Sod it, damn it to hell with it decision made
Im going for the Focus jam 6.8 in 29er.
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Come hell or high water. I'll fing make it work. If i need to retrain my head or so to get into the idea of running a trailer, I damned well will make that work.
Next stop- give Scott a buzz over at Love Ebikes in Glasgow. He knows his onions, ive had a chat with him previously and he has a real depth of passion and the experience of all things bike, previously being the Yeti rep for the UK. He'd be my choice of shop, not just as its a one man independent.
why don't you electrify that while you ponder your next move? Seems the ideal runaround Goldilocks bike for life admin and wait for the glut of covid bought bikes to flood ebay next year
never too old...
My new favourite armchair-sport is fast-becoming watching dyed-in-the-wool UK MTBers choose a bike on which to go to the shops and potter about 😀
It’s so wrong for the job in every way that it’s gone full circle to utterly awesome!
Get a good lock/insurance, and most of all have fun! (Once you’ve added the kickstand, dynohub, road-spec cutoff beam lights, full mudguards, flaps etc 😉)
(PS I hear a Van Moof is handy for tall folk… 😉)
Its I want to get out more. To do the miles I used to do, which was about 100 or so a week come rain,shine or snow. As above, if i need to cobble together something to shop with on it I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, but I guess the important step is to first have a capable bike so I can at least get out and ride.
It's about 8 miles to my sisters(she loves cooking) and up hill all the way(usually into the wind too as fate always deems it)
But just to get out again, and go wherever the whim takes me.
But just to get out again, and go wherever the whim takes me.
That’s what it’s all about, joking apart.
I used to live over 10 coastal river valleys from my friend’s cottage and the climbing was insane there and back so I’d drive most of the time even though I really didn’t want to drive. By bike it was doable by a few farm tracks and many lanes. I agonised for ages what ebike or kit to look for in order to achieve this task (going back about 8 years so not so much about back then) I was looking at Kalkhoff
My needs have since changed and can get around without the motor for now, yet if I was in the market again for such a task then I could see that Focus being a total hoot, and a lovely thing to own, knowing that you can get anywhere on it, push yr limits etc
