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What bike should i get
Gday,
Im looking at buying a mountain bike to ride to work and back on and get a little fitter. save fuel on riding my motorbikes. Things seem to have changed since i was a teen, I will have a lot of hills, well one big one, easy to work, hard coming home. What sorta bike should i get, lots of gears Suspention, disk brakes, gel seats? im about 90kg and 170cm tall. Should i just get one a $200 from kmart, or a fancy one off ebay? Mad |
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Mad-Biker wrote: Gday, Im looking at buying a mountain bike to ride to work and back on and get a little fitter. save fuel on riding my motorbikes. Things seem to have changed since i was a teen, I will have a lot of hills, well one big one, easy to work, hard coming home. What sorta bike should i get, lots of gears Suspention, disk brakes, gel seats? im about 90kg and 170cm tall. Should i just get one a $200 from kmart, or a fancy one off ebay? Mad What is the surface your going to ride on,dirt or hardtop? |
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What bike should i get
"Mad-Biker" wrote:
Im looking at buying a mountain bike to ride to work and back on and get a little fitter. save fuel on riding my motorbikes. Things seem to have changed since i was a teen, I will have a lot of hills, well one big one, easy to work, hard coming home. What sorta bike should i get, lots of gears Maybe - but what you really need is the right range of gears, not necessarily lots of gears. If you end up with a MTB, you'll pretty much end up with lots of gears anyway though. Suspention, This would be a big negative for a road commute, especially while climbing that "big hill". All suspension will do for you is sap energy that could otherwise be used to get you to work faster. The most efficient bike you could get would be a (gasp...) road bike rather than a mountain bike. disk brakes, There would be absolutely no advantage unless that hill is so long and so steep that heating your rims up under braking would be a problem (I kinda doubt that). gel seats? Everyone's butt is different. But while a really cushy saddle might feel better for the first few miles, they tend to put more pressure on the soft tissue than a harder saddle that allows your "sit bones" to support your weight, and keeps the squishy bits happier. im about 90kg and 170cm tall. Should i just get one a $200 from kmart, or a fancy one off ebay? You'd be much better off getting a nice used bike than a cheap new one. For your mission statement, you're going to be able to find lots of MTBs on Ebay (or yard sales) that'll work fine. In fact, the older and funkier they are, the better they might be - rigid fork, horizontal top tube, rack mounting points - all the kiss of death on a modern MTB, but perfect for commuting. Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $795 ti frame |
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