New bike!
I’ve been looking to sort myself out with a new push bike for ages now… about this time last year I posted a blog entry for the bike I proposed to buy through the cycle to work scheme… it was a Scott Sportster P2 hybrid bike. Unfortunately I didn’t ever go through with the deal, as Evans the cycle shop could not find the model in my size.
A year later, and I began the hunt again… I spoke to a few cycling authorities… Chris Gerhard and Chris Talbot, and was convinced by the former that I did not need front suspension (I had originally planned to buy the 2007 Sportster P2).
After much shop and soul searching, I headed into London on Sunday to check out a well-stocked Evans store in Waterloo. Here I cycled around on a Cannondale Bad Boy for about £650… I liked the ride, but I still wanted to try out the Trek 7.6FX and possibly a Scott Sub 10.
After having a nice lunch at the former Millennium Dome with Mandy from my CS course, I prepared to head back home, only to realise I still had enough time to check out another Evans in Canary Wharf. This time I cycled around on the Trek and was umming and arring when one of the guys in the shop asked me if I wanted to try something really different.
Enter the Ridgeback Genesis Day 03… I don’t really know my bikes, but this was more or less a road racing bike… sans the bendy handlebars and (almost) obligatory SPD pedals.
With a carbon front fork, rear stay and seat post, the bike is really light and very fast… and I was surprised by just how much of a difference the carbon front fork made in terms of comfort (compared to the Cannondale).
I spent Monday attempting to figure out if this really was the bike I wanted… it won’t accept full-size mudguards, I can’t attach a rear rack in the standard way, and it was a little more expensive than I initially planned to spend. Once I had these settled, I decided to take the plunge, and I’ve just had confirmation that the bike was shipped today and will take 24-48 hours to arrive.
I give you, the Genesis Day 03:
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