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road bike / race bike / hybrid / touring / fitness bike - which one
Chums
Further to a previous post about upgrading from my initial cheap intro to cycling with a sub £100 'mountain bike' (this a deliberate decision), I'm popping into townat the weekend to do a bit of window shopping - there are four cycle shops in Colchester :-) I'm clear that what I want is to - go faster on the country roads in north Essex (a few occasional uphill bits, but its probably as flat as anywhere in England) and never want to go off road on it - no need for mudguards, panniers or any of that palaver -but- I'm not too sure about assuming a bent over body position on the drop handlebars for long periods. (In my 40s and never had a racer before). A 'fitness bike' as described on CTC seems to be the thing I should be looking at - a sort of racer with straight handlebars, or a 'lite' hybrid http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3793 It's alll very confusing! So what kind of bike should I be looking at? What shoulds I be looking at in terms of - type of bike - type of gears? - 2 or 3 front chainrings? - very narrow wheels? - dropped handlebars a must? M |
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