New bike...

[Davidm]

Well, after many weekend rides with my wife on a Giant hybrid trying to keep
up with me on a road bike, even though I'm trying to go slowly, she decides
to get a s/h road bike. Great call - a bit hard to go s/h though as she
needs a small frame...

Anyway, to cut a long story short, found one in the paper, paid her $600 (!)
and has now got a 2 year old "Avanti Corsa Pro Series", not a mark on it,
chain looks like it's done 500km, carbon fork and the works, and the only
"work" it needed was new bar tape as the old stuff was manky. Other than
that, looks brand new.

It's a sweet bike, and I am quite truly jealous...

Cheers
David M

 

[mfhor]

Well, after many weekend rides with my wife on a Giant hybrid trying to keep
up with me on a road bike, even though I'm trying to go slowly, she decides
to get a s/h road bike. Great call - a bit hard to go s/h though as she
needs a small frame...

Anyway, to cut a long story short, found one in the paper, paid her $600 (!)
and has now got a 2 year old "Avanti Corsa Pro Series", not a mark on it,
chain looks like it's done 500km, carbon fork and the works, and the only
"work" it needed was new bar tape as the old stuff was manky. Other than
that, looks brand new.

It's a sweet bike, and I am quite truly jealous...

Cheers
David M

Great, now measure her shoulder width and get the same width bars, or you're going to cop an earful after about 40 - 50 ks.

M "shortarse spoken here" H

 

[Davidm]

"mfhor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Great, now measure her shoulder width and get the same width bars, or
> you're going to cop an earful after about 40 - 50 ks.

haha...yeah, they're already only 380mm, so pretty narrow.. We did a first
road cycle run on the day after she got it - 30km distance (no sore at all
afterwards), and probably averaged 28kph including stopping for traffic
lights etc. I guess it was 33-35kph average speed whilst moving, which I
thought was pretty good for someone who'd never used drops, never used STI,
never used lycra.....

BTW, where do you measure to on the shoulder to get a width...?

Cheers
David m