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The term gate refers to something that's overly tall.
Quite the opposite of a Geometron.
Like them or hate them a test day will give you a great opportunity to see how geometry/wheel size changes feel in real life rather than just regurgitating some stuff you read a few years ago.
whether they're a brilliant or awful bike doesn't come into it for me, you have to like bikes aesthetically to buy them i think and Geometron are a bloody ugly bike to me. That said, i don't like Cotic FS's either....
whether they’re a brilliant or awful bike doesn’t come into it for me, you have to like bikes aesthetically to buy them i think and Geometron are a bloody ugly bike to me. That said, i don’t like Cotic FS’s either….
And remind us how many 'wonderfully looking' bikes you've gone through in the last few years that you hated riding?
whether they’re a brilliant or awful bike doesn’t come into it for me
Speaks volumes.
whether they’re a brilliant or awful bike doesn’t come into it for me, you have to like bikes aesthetically to buy them i think and Geometron are a bloody ugly bike to me.
Plus, you wouldn’t get through all the tuning options in a demo month day.
another recommendation for the Cotic demo loop. proved to be an expensive trip. 4 years later the bike is still going strong
And remind us how many ‘wonderfully looking’ bikes you’ve gone through in the last few years that you hated riding?
None... 🙂
The only bike i've not liked was the Bird Aether7 as a bike to ride... but i didn't think it was particularly lovely or not to look at... it was just a bike.
Not keeping a bike doesn't mean you hated it 🙂 Things move on, time moves on otherwise we'd all still be riding the same bike from 1980.
I’ve done a couple of cotic demos. Still don’t own one though🤷🏼♂️
It helps living near the loop and once I knew it I was able to ride it the day before the demo on my old 26 bike, then the next day on a modern geo flaremax I was completely blown away by the difference. It did confirm that lls was the way to go even if I didn’t order a Cotic. Helped me understand the numbers that might work for me and how they make a bike ride. Maybe a Solarismax is next though. They are great fun short going out in a group with some of the staff. Loop takes about half an hour so it’s hardly extensive. They used to offer longer demos I believe.
I’ve also had paid “demos” of Santa Cruz and orange at llandegla and a hope hb160 at the shop at Cannock. Alpkit offer the same with a refund if you buy as stated above. Thought about taking their tandem out for a spin round hathersage a few times…
This was all back in the pre covid era though… things have obviously changed.
Mountain Trax, 48 hour demo, near to Swinley, https://www.mountain-trax.com/pages/hire/