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I did a really detailed reply and then it all crashed!
So either CX for a commute with road and tracks, Giant Defy 3.5 if you want drops for fast road work, Boardman flat bar if you want flat bars and discs.
Shop around and you should get any of them new for £500 or less.
That Day One is indeed gorgeous
However, if I bought one I'd then feel guilty for getting it covered in mud, salt, crap every day and end up using it at weekends only, keeping it lovely and clean, then ending up having to buy ANOTHER bike for daily use
I've read the script on this one.
Revolution Courier is good, the Race with the 1x8 gearing and the 700c wheels. Tough as old boots, looks horrible with its matt grey paint and cheap components so not too nickable.
I commute 15 miles from the coast into the wicklow mtns with a Pompino fitted with a alfine hub and flat bars (with stubby bar ends).
I don't use mudguards as work is set up for cyclists, plus I use racing ralph CX tyres which don't appear to aim all the gunk at your face like the slick Evo2's used to do.
works a treat.
That Day One is indeed gorgeous
Funnily enough, though it's an orange cross bike it doesn't quite flick it for me.
But that's cos I ride this shonky old thing and happily cover it in the north west's finest:
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You shouldn't feel guilty about that sort of stuff binners. It's a tool. My pompino is abused terribly, it is just covered by a plastic sheet down the side of the conservatory at home. I pull it out, ride it to work, ride it back, back under the sheet. My day one will do the same thing.
And don't worry, I'll not be forgetting your implication that Rachel isn't one of the loveliest girls ever, we'll be talking about that some other time.
Carrera Subway 8.
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This has got to be the bargain commuter at the moment. Saw one in Halfords last week for £319. That price buys you a rigid, ALFINE HUBBED, Disk braked MTB with mudguards and a rack! For that price, the bike is free with the hub and brakes.
The Day One Alfine looks lovely, but worth 3.5x the price? Probably not.
I commute on an Alfine Airnimal Rhino, but will switch to fixed as my route is flat and I miss my track bike. Probably a Kona Paddy Waggon.
Oi...I bagged the day-one first samuri, she's mine 🙂
should start a new job in a month or so and its a 7 mile commute (chorlton water park/river then up to wythenshaw)
1st day should go something like...
1. meet people
2. find desk
3. arrange bike2work voucher.
4. order sexeh orange bike
Pends though dunnit Binners?
For long road ride in- road bike.
Don't like drops? 'Sports' hybrid thing.
Bit of path/crappy roads- hybrid with 1.5"+ tyres.
Really bad roads, potholes, kerbs etc- 26" MTB.
Flat terrain with no proper big climbs- SS.
Horses for courses, innit?
Mudguards are a boon in bad weather of course, a rack and panniers useful for shopping/carrying stuff.
Gonna lock it up? something proper scabby looking. And not expensive.
Common sense really.
OR
You could have something like a SC Bullit, with 1" slick tyres. And clearly not give a toss what people might think...
No real need for this though, is there? 😕
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17.5" 1992 Rocky Mountain Vertex triple butted tange prestige frame (3.7lbs) with orange F8 forks, in nice powdercoat blue. might be for sale...
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sounds to me like you need a roadbike shaped bike la!
"Don't like drops? 'Sports' hybrid thing.
Bit of path/crappy roads- hybrid with 1.5"+ tyres.
Really bad roads, potholes, kerbs etc- 26" MTB."
**** all that. Roadbike. Ride my roadbike on allsorts of bumpy, skittish rubbish, it hasn't exploded, and neither have I.
or buy my nice blue one and put some gears on it...
Can I throw in the old retro road bike? something like a Claud Butler, Holdsworth Raleigh etc.
Certainly good enough for a commute and has added funk.