06-21-2004, 04:05 PM
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"Rosey" <jfrick@email.sjsu.edu> wrote in message
news:40D75922.F5114AF3@email.sjsu.edu...
> Pete Greenwood wrote:
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> > So I've decided it's time to get a new bike. I plan to do some test
rides
> > this week, and would like to be armed with a bit of knowledge in
advance.
> >
> > I'd like a ride that is comfortable and fairly upright, but I don't want
> > anything too heavy or slow.
How upright do you have to be? I'm seeing you on a road bike with drop bars.
You can ride with your hands on the tops most of the time and be upright,
and only go down to the drops on descents. When you go to the bike store,
make sure they know you want to be in a more upright position for a lot of
your riding. They might make some adjustments in the bike (a spacer in the
headset?) to meet your needs.
> Bicycling Magazine had an article in their Jan-Feb. issue about a contest
in
> which 50 people were given Trek bicycles to use for 3 months. The people
were
> all levels of ability. For the most part they all really liked the bikes.
I
> can't remember the particular model, maybe someone else in this newsgroup
can
> contribute that, but I remember thinking that it was a good compromise for
an
> around town bike for a person who was into recreational cycling. And from
what I
> remember, is similar to what you are describing you want.
Nah, he's graduated from that sort of thing. He's going to keep his old
Rockhopper comp for mountain biking and maybe as his rain, around-town, or
commuter bike. But for his real rides, he's going to get a good, standard
road bike.
If I were you, Pete, I'd be looking at something like maybe a Jamis or
Giant, that don't have the cache of the fancier road bike brand names. I'd
go no lower than Shimano 105 components. Maybe something like this?
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/jamis/ventura.html. This will carry you
through your next level of cycling -- you'll ride this sort of bike for your
first metric century, and your first 100 mile century, no problem.
--
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