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purves grundy said:
That looks fantastic - thanks for the tip. Definitely sth along those lines. You're right though, out of stock.

I've actually never ridden with drop bars! Bit awkward for me given my penchant for riding standing (not all of the time but defo most of the time)?
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Have a look at a Giant Defy or Revolt (silly names). They’re a bit more upright than race bikes.
 
purves grundy said:
That looks fantastic - thanks for the tip. Definitely sth along those lines. You're right though, out of stock.

I've actually never ridden with drop bars! Bit awkward for me given my penchant for riding standing (not all of the time but defo most of the time)?
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Try some! You may (will!) find them so much better - much easier to vary your hand positions which is great for longer rides.
 
Cid said:
You could also buy a bike when you get out there... Giant are based in Taiwan and tend to have good distribution in major east-asian cities. At lest they did in China. The other China. The people's republic, rather than the republic.
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Yeah! I’ve a Giant in Yangon. Most foreigners braving the roads in the city have one, usually from the sole decent bike shop there run by an Aussie expat. Very well-priced and rides nicely. Given all the shit going down in Myanmar the ports aren’t functioning and shipping could be out of the question for a while, so I was going to pass it on to a mate there. Haven’t checked out bike shops in SGP yet...
 
See with drop bars, do most bikes now have brake levers on the top of the bars as well now? My retro road bike has them but they're about half as effective as the brake levers on the drop bars, which I'm not sure is an old-bike thing and needs some tweaking, old design, or something else.
 
iamwithnail said:
See with drop bars, do most bikes now have brake levers on the top of the bars as well now? My retro road bike has them but they're about half as effective as the brake levers on the drop bars, which I'm not sure is an old-bike thing and needs some tweaking, old design, or something else.
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Most don’t. You’re (usually) only on the tops when climbing, where brakes aren’t needed.

The latest Shimano GRX (aimed at the off road/gravel market) groupset has them as an option
 
iamwithnail said:
Having looked that up, yeah, that sounds right. I don't know the words yet :D Eta: different setup from my old bike, but yeah that looks like what I want.
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:)
 
Have you been out on it yet Bahnhof Strasse ? Or have you got to charge the battery first?

It looks like it was well packaged up when it arrived. Much better than when my bike arrived with holes in the box which was on the point of collapse.
 
it came with just one bar of power, so rode it up my road which has a slope on it, oh my, just whooshed up in eco mode, tried the two more powerful modes and can tell that they will help you get up most things. Seems that I need to do a lot of playing around with the system to get the most mileage out of it, e.g. eco mode is 85nm, turn it down to 70nm and apparently you get an extra 15% or so distance, so lots of experimenting to do.

And yes, very well packed, quick delivery too, ordered 9 days ago and it’s here from Germany, Canyon has registered for U.K. VAT so there was nothing to pay to the DHL bloke.
 
Leafster said:
The last short stretch of hill to get to my place is pretty steep. I'm not sure that Strava can be trusted for accuracy but it's somewhere between 20% and 30%. I've only seen one person ride up it on a bike that's my neighbour on his e-bike. The rest of us just get off and walk!
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Fully charged, just taken it up a very steep hill behind my house, left it in eco and was no effort at all. Have always been crap at going up hills and end up either shagging myself or walking and still feeling shagged, which stops me wanting to go to the hilliest bits as it just ruins me, but living in such a hilly area that does limit the rides I can do, so this thing should, hopefully see me doing long rides and more often, with the net result being fitter and maybe even less fat...
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Fully charged, just taken it up a very steep hill behind my house, left it in eco and was no effort at all. Have always been crap at going up hills and end up either shagging myself or walking and still feeling shagged, which stops me wanting to go to the hilliest bits as it just ruins me, but living in such a hilly area that does limit the rides I can do, so this thing should, hopefully see me doing long rides and more often, with the net result being fitter and maybe even less fat...
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I have to admit I avoid steep roads around here as I don't like stopping where there's no pavement with cars rushing past but I'm OK on the steep off road bits - I just stop for a while and admire the scenery! :D

It's only been 9 months since I got back on a bike after decades of not riding so I want to see how well I do on a traditional MTB but I can see me getting an e-MTB at some point if only to ride further.
 
Leafster said:
I have to admit I avoid steep roads around here as I don't like stopping where there's no pavement with cars rushing past but I'm OK on the steep off road bits - I just stop for a while and admire the scenery! :D

It's only been 9 months since I got back on a bike after decades of not riding so I want to see how well I do on a traditional MTB but I can see me getting an e-MTB at some point if only to ride further.
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Weather looks nice tomorrow and my work is almost non-existent, so will try it on a long-ish ride and see how I get on...
 
Right! Work are doing the cycle to work scheme now, so I have a £2k budget as was going to buy my own shortly anyway and will chuck some of that budget at it as well. I'm thinking road bike, but have really no idea about them, but want to be comfortable and efficient riding long ish distances of a weekend - getting into the 50/60/80km realm soon. (I know this isn't long for a lot of you but still.)
 
You can get plenty of bike for 2k, even disc brakes and a decent group set:

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iamwithnail said:
Right! Work are doing the cycle to work scheme now, so I have a £2k budget as was going to buy my own shortly anyway and will chuck some of that budget at it as well. I'm thinking road bike, but have really no idea about them, but want to be comfortable and efficient riding long ish distances of a weekend - getting into the 50/60/80km realm soon. (I know this isn't long for a lot of you but still.)
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Can eat up the miles in comfort due to the large volume tyres, but also then have the option to explore on gravel/dirt tracks and forrest fireroads etc.

Not quite as outright fast as a pure road bike, but fast enough and way more versatile.
 
weepiper said:
Finding anything you like in stock is going to be the problem unfortunately. If you don't mind waiting until June or July you might be in luck.
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On that note, if what you need to fix your bike is 1/4" ball bearings, a 7 speed freewheel, any kind of 26" or cheapish 700c suspension fork, GRX or Deore or Tiagra anything, 10 speed anything, you're out of luck there too. We're starting to see suppliers saying 'December' in the 'expected in' box when you look things up. We're having to get creative.
 
weepiper said:
On that note, if what you need to fix your bike is 1/4" ball bearings, a 7 speed freewheel, any kind of 26" or cheapish 700c suspension fork, GRX or Deore or Tiagra anything, 10 speed anything, you're out of luck there too. We're starting to see suppliers saying 'December' in the 'expected in' box when you look things up. We're having to get creative.
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Was chatting to the mechanic from my club last week and he was saying similar - he can't get any Shimano groupset bits at the moment, what few are available are all going to the larger operators, single person outfits aren't getting a look in.
 
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