Poll New bike thoughts

Should I get it?

  • Yeah, looks good

    Votes: 5 62.5%

  • Nah, it's crap mate

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • WTF is that ugly lump of gash?

    Votes: 3 37.5%
  • Total voters
    8
hardwood

hardwood

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Looks a decent enough bike and the built in panniers look good. Having said that £700 isn't cheap and is beginning to get close to the price band of electric bikes. If you can hold out for a few years the price point of electric bikes will hopefully reduce a little more and then you would have an ideal commuter bike.
I love cycling but I can see the advantage of the occasional electric assurance, particularly when pulling away from traffic lights or for steep hills.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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tek-monkey said:
I want hub gears, I love the idea, but..
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Having done a certain amount of 'browsing' at the available offerings for the kind of bicycle you are looking for, one inescapable fact emerges when one looks at the 'big boys' of the field - none of them, bar Cube, seem to have any love for the hub.

The cynic in me wonders whether this might be related to 'after sales', the realist in me wonders whether @stoofer34 may be onto something.

For everybody else who might already be just peeking in to this thread and thinking '£750 for a bicycle - what madness is this?' - observe the Alfine 11 - the best part of £300 for a rear hub...

Just the hub, not even the whole wheel.
 
Noah

Noah

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Now when I was a lad nearly everyone had hub gears on their bikes, usually 3 or 4 speed. Only people with lots of money (relatively speaking) or show-offs had derailleurs .


Or should one say Disraeli Gears?
 
Withnail

Withnail

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I saw a Sturmey-Archer hub just this very day. On a Norco.

Had i not also seen the White-Letter Hairstreak it may well have made the front page.
 
hardwood

hardwood

Well-Known Forumite
tek-monkey said:
I want hub gears, I love the idea, but..
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Although gear hubs work well and are considered to be low maintenance when an issue occurs you need to deal with it fairly quickly.
I have just had to replace the hub on a bike which I basically abused. In the last 2.5 years it covered about 5000 miles. The only maintaince was fixing punctures and replacing bald tyres.
Around 4 weeks ago the gears started to play up, but I was too busy with other things to attend to them. On a deurellier based bike slipping gears is a pain and might occasionally result in the chain coming off but often isnt that harmful.

The end result is I probably applied too much muscle power to a fairly delicate mechanism and sheared off many teeth, knackering the freewheel and hub.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
hardwood said:
Although gear hubs work well and are considered to be low maintenance when an issue occurs you need to deal with it fairly quickly.
I have just had to replace the hub on a bike which I basically abused. In the last 2.5 years it covered about 5000 miles. The only maintaince was fixing punctures and replacing bald tyres.
Around 4 weeks ago the gears started to play up, but I was too busy with other things to attend to them. On a deurellier based bike slipping gears is a pain and might occasionally result in the chain coming off but often isnt that harmful.

The end result is I probably applied too much muscle power to a fairly delicate mechanism and sheared off many teeth, knackering the freewheel and hub.
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Bugger! Yeah, much as I love the idea I'm starting to realise I should probably stick to what is easy to fix.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Oddly, in the old days, hub gears were considered to be the robust option, and derailleurs were the finicky, delicate choice of the purist faction. Maybe a modern hub with five or six gears could be the way forward?

I once took a Sturmey-Archer three-speed apart and managed to get it back together again, but with quite a few bits left over. However, it still worked faultlessly thereafter.
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
tek-monkey said:
And then this pops up!

https://www.evanscycles.com/bmc-alpenchallenge-ac02-nexus-8-2017-hybrid-bike-EV273282

With the cycle to work scheme this could be fairly cheap, may well investigate. That said this one is still a lot cheaper and still has hydraulic discs:

https://www.evanscycles.com/pinnacle-lithium-3-2018-hybrid-bike-EV275573?S2IOD=152796434
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The second one looks like it would be more comfortable for a commute. It's also lighter. Got to be worth a punt at that price plus Quidco give you 5% back.
 
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