This bike - Oregon 2008

bornfree

http://www.tredz.co.uk/ProductDetai...ProductID=17836

How much would it likely weigh?

Also the website says "ideal short commutes or popping to the local
shop". What distances would you say this bike was good for?

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I am looking for an upgrade (for the city, London) to replace my
wonderful Aluminium folder - "Raleigh Boardwalk Lite". Basically the
top gear is not fast enough for me, and the 20" wheels make me really
feel bad road surfaces. Particularly cycling east on the Bayswater
Road (ever tried it?); lots of bone shaking.

Rob Morley

On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:36:41 -0700 (PDT)
bornfree <justyouandme@xemaps.com> wrote:

> http://www.tredz.co.uk/ProductDetai...ProductID=17836
>
> How much would it likely weigh?

Why not ask the vendor? Does it matter much anyway?
>
> Also the website says "ideal short commutes or popping to the local
> shop". What distances would you say this bike was good for?
>
As far as the rider can manage.
> -
> I am looking for an upgrade (for the city, London) to replace my
> wonderful Aluminium folder - "Raleigh Boardwalk Lite". Basically the
> top gear is not fast enough for me, and the 20" wheels make me really
> feel bad road surfaces. Particularly cycling east on the Bayswater
> Road (ever tried it?); lots of bone shaking.

You might be able to fit fatter tyres (Schwalbe Big Apple being the one
to go for if there's room) - this would also raise the effective
gearing slightly. You could fit a larger chainring, or learn to pedal
faster - 95 inches isn't really low.

vernon

"bornfree" <justyouandme@xemaps.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.tredz.co.uk/ProductDetai...ProductID=17836
>
> How much would it likely weigh?
>
Only the vendor or an owner can tell you that I'm afraid. The weight isn't
a problem unless you are lightweight yourself and there's lots of stepp
hills to pedal up.

> Also the website says "ideal short commutes or popping to the local
> shop". What distances would you say this bike was good for?
>
Folk have done Land's End to John O'Groats on worse/heavier bikes...

Peter Pan

bornfree wrote:
> http://www.tredz.co.uk/ProductDetai...ProductID=17836
>
> Also the website says "ideal short commutes or popping to the local
> shop". What distances would you say this bike was good for?

I think that implies it is for the 'casual' rider, one who does 'low'
mileage. If you put a lot of miles on that class of bike, parts (drive
train, hubs, rims) start to wear very quickly, and you can easily spend
the cost of the bike on replacement higher quality parts.

congokid

In article
<4c74139e-5bfc-4cab-a786-445850e725ea@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
bornfree <justyouandme@xemaps.com> writes

>feel bad road surfaces. Particularly cycling east on the Bayswater
>Road (ever tried it?); lots of bone shaking.

Only ever done it west, once a week when I worked in Holborn and was
taking Spanish lessons at White City. No problems on a Brompton.
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Quoting vernon <publicity_shy@privacy.net>:
>"bornfree" <justyouandme@xemaps.com> wrote in message
>>Also the website says "ideal short commutes or popping to the local
>>shop". What distances would you say this bike was good for?
>Folk have done Land's End to John O'Groats on worse/heavier bikes...

But would you want to?

On the E2E we saw, a few days running, two women on boinger bikes who, I
can only presume, got up early every morning in an effort to beat those
lunatics with the tandem. We'd reel them in around teastop time, regular
as clockwork.
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Daniel Barlow

congokid <congokid@congokid.com> writes:

> In article
> <4c74139e-5bfc-4cab-a786-445850e725ea@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> bornfree <justyouandme@xemaps.com> writes
>
>>feel bad road surfaces. Particularly cycling east on the Bayswater
>>Road (ever tried it?); lots of bone shaking.
>
> Only ever done it west, once a week when I worked in Holborn and was
> taking Spanish lessons at White City. No problems on a Brompton.

On skates it's very obviously a not-nice surface (skateable, but not
pleasant) eastbound on one of the inclines approaching Queensway.
Westbound I think either the surface is not so bad or the fact that
it's downhill means you don't notice so much.


-dan

bornfree

On 9 Jun, 03:54, Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:36:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
> bornfree <justyouan...@xemaps.com> wrote:
> >http://www.tredz.co.uk/ProductDetai...ProductID=17836
>
> > How much would it likely weigh?
>
> Why not ask the vendor? Does it matter much anyway?

Well yes because I will want to carry it upstairs, and I fatigue more
when cycling over 2-3 miles with a heavier bike.

Do I have the right idea with that bike, or should I spend more?
Perhaps someone could recommend a bike for London. I could spend £300.

Rob Morley

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:07:21 +0100
Peter Pan <peter.pan@invalid.mail.kom> wrote:

> bornfree wrote:
> > http://www.tredz.co.uk/ProductDetai...ProductID=17836
> >
> > Also the website says "ideal short commutes or popping to the local
> > shop". What distances would you say this bike was good for?
>
> I think that implies it is for the 'casual' rider, one who does 'low'
> mileage. If you put a lot of miles on that class of bike, parts
> (drive train, hubs, rims) start to wear very quickly, and you can
> easily spend the cost of the bike on replacement higher quality parts.

Assuming it's worth something like the £270 list price it's not a BSO,
just rather entry-level - it should last reasonably well with proper
maintenance. IME the problem with a lot of bikes at this level is that
they're not set up properly out of the box, e,g, hubs aren't properly
lubricated/adjusted, spokes aren't properly tensioned etc. and they fail
early because of this rather than any deficiency in the actual
components.