Show us your bicycles...

[Gregor]

Well, he did ask.
MrBB gave me this as a Christmas present about three years ago. It's a Kettler ALU-RAD DIXI SM. He told me about it beforehand and asked if I would ride it. I believe it is about 30 years old so fits well with the rest of my unremarkable old nails. Having short legs, I queried how tall the previous owner was and was told she's only small, so I said yes. I suspect you know what's coming now. Yes, it's too big for me. My bum to pedal distance is fine but even with the seat at it's lowest point, I can only just touch the floor with my toes. I haven't ridden a bicycle for years and I am too scared to go out and try it. Therefore it's been standing in the garage ever since.


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Those sprung saddles are super comfy, I had one on this old Raleigh when I got it.

[Gregor]

Well, he did ask.
MrBB gave me this as a Christmas present about three years ago. It's a Kettler ALU-RAD DIXI SM. He told me about it beforehand and asked if I would ride it. I believe it is about 30 years old so fits well with the rest of my unremarkable old nails. Having short legs, I queried how tall the previous owner was and was told she's only small, so I said yes. I suspect you know what's coming now. Yes, it's too big for me. My bum to pedal distance is fine but even with the seat at it's lowest point, I can only just touch the floor with my toes. I haven't ridden a bicycle for years and I am too scared to go out and try it. Therefore it's been standing in the garage ever since.


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That saddle probably sits you a couple of inches higher than a normal one, try changing it for a new one maybe.

[Taipan]

Got given this today! First time I’d ridden a power assisted bike and sit karks it is! I bet those duper emtbs are something else!!

[porter_jamie]

*please pick whichever description you find most offensive.

Analogue

[Bike Breaker]

Well, he did ask.
MrBB gave me this as a Christmas present about three years ago. It's a Kettler ALU-RAD DIXI SM. He told me about it beforehand and asked if I would ride it. I believe it is about 30 years old so fits well with the rest of my unremarkable old nails. Having short legs, I queried how tall the previous owner was and was told she's only small, so I said yes. I suspect you know what's coming now. Yes, it's too big for me. My bum to pedal distance is fine but even with the seat at it's lowest point, I can only just touch the floor with my toes. I haven't ridden a bicycle for years and I am too scared to go out and try it. Therefore it's been standing in the garage ever since.


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That saddle probably sits you a couple of inches higher than a normal one, try changing it for a new one maybe.

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll look into it.

[Jody]

[Gedge]

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[Taipan]

Got given this today! First time I’d ridden a power assisted bike and wot larks it is! I bet those super eMTBs are something else!!

I've given that one back and bought my own one now. Should be perfect for my initial needs. Pick it up tonight.

[millemille]

Having sold my Trek Powerfly e-mtb last summer, taking advantage of the ridiculous prices 2nd hand e-bikes were commanding and in the belief that the bubble would burst and I'd be able to pick up bargain as some poor shmuck who'd bought one while furloughed and then got the chop would be selling all of their toys (which hasn't happened yet and doesn't look like happening any time), and being unsure of what kind of e-mtb I'll be buying next I picked up this meat powered/Amish/clockwork* Trek Roscoe 7 to put some miles in on on the local trails.....





*please pick whichever description you find most offensive.

A combination of work and getting the Ducati on the road meant I had little opportunity to ride the Trek and, on the limited occasions I did ride it, I got frustrated with the limited return for your effort when compared to an e-bike.

And a ride round the high peak last weekend with @porter_jamie on a hired Trek Rail convinced me I need to get back on an emtb. So I've bought this....



A 2020 Focus Sam2. 170mm travel, mullet, Bosch gen 4. Pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

[weeksy]

New or used? What battery?

[millemille]

New or used? What battery?

Used. 625 battery.

My mistake, it's a 29er not a mullet.

[weeksy]

You done the 29er thing before?

Congratulations by the way

[millemille]

You done the 29er thing before?

Yeah, I've hired a Trek Rail emtb - which are 29er's - twice now for rides in the high peak and have loved 'em.

I know there's those that don't like them, you and @Couchy, but I really clicked with them and didn't experience any negatives. I was expecting it to feel like riding a badly trained giraffe; all teetery and torrery and remote, but didn't get that all and the difference in rolling resistance and how the front wheel tracks was eye opening.

Now I have to engage the time honoured ritual that Helen and I go through of sneaking an expensive selfish purchase past each other.

Week 1 - keep purchase somewhere there is a very slim possibility of the other person finding it, the back of my van for example
Week 2 - use purchase in manner intended away from other person, see if they become aware of a disturbance in the force
Week 3 - use purchase in manner intended and post pictures of it being used on facebook, see if they notice
Week 4 - bring purchase into house/garage and not exactly hide it, but make it not particularly obvious, and see if the notice while going about their normal business
Week 5 - move purchase into obvious place in house/garage, and see if they notice while going about their normal business
Week 6 - deliberately encourage other party to go into part of house/garage where purchase is and almost force them to discover it

At which point, when they say "Is that a new ***? When did you get that?!!??!!?!?". And the agreement we have is that if the answer is more than 5 weeks ago then the other party has no right to complain.

So far I've got two mountain bikes in under this approach and Helen's got a sewing machine and a pressure cooker....

[MingtheMerciless]

All my mountain bikes are named. Usually after Starships or Characters from novels. In 2015 I purchased a Specialized Enduro, Mrs M wasn’t er advised of this purchase but she was on our local MTB group Messenger Chat. My wide mouthed mate then blabbed that somebody in the group had a new bike, as I was the only one with an old bike still, Mrs M easily worked out it was me and there was then a strongly worded listening too on my part. The Specialized became “Reasonable Grounds for Divorce” as I was reading a Culture Novel at the time.

I did get my revenge as wide mouthed mate secretly spent an eye watering amount on a new watch and during a meal out with him and his wife we kept asking him the time……….