Soldato
Hi,
My Dad currently has an old Ridgeback 503SX which is a flat bar touring bike which uses mtb groupset and ~35mm tyres on 700C wheels. He has rear panniers and full mudguards fitted to the bike. When we weighed it with those bits on it came out at 18.5kg!
He is after something that will be a bit quicker for him to ride but he still wants to be able to do hardpack style paths as well as tarmac. Now a road bike is out as he finds it far too bent over for himself plus he wants to keep a decent enough ride so I can't see 23/25mm tyres giving that!
In short he wants to have a bike he can use for day to day stuff (no proper offroading) that won't require to wear anything specific for cycling to be comfortable. He currently goes out once a week on his bike, often doing 20-30miles at an average speed of 11mph.
So what sort of bikes should I be looking at? One thing I thought was the boardman hybrids but I wasn't sure whether 28mm tyres would be too much to drop down to, I unfortunately don't have any experience of tyres between full mountain bike 2.2" tyres and my 23mm on the road bike. Another bike that caught my eye was the pinnacle lithium series as they are more swayed towards mountain bike, but would he really gain that much from it?
Any bike has to have proper mudguard mounts and pannier mounts as he does use them.
My Dad currently has an old Ridgeback 503SX which is a flat bar touring bike which uses mtb groupset and ~35mm tyres on 700C wheels. He has rear panniers and full mudguards fitted to the bike. When we weighed it with those bits on it came out at 18.5kg!
He is after something that will be a bit quicker for him to ride but he still wants to be able to do hardpack style paths as well as tarmac. Now a road bike is out as he finds it far too bent over for himself plus he wants to keep a decent enough ride so I can't see 23/25mm tyres giving that!
In short he wants to have a bike he can use for day to day stuff (no proper offroading) that won't require to wear anything specific for cycling to be comfortable. He currently goes out once a week on his bike, often doing 20-30miles at an average speed of 11mph.
So what sort of bikes should I be looking at? One thing I thought was the boardman hybrids but I wasn't sure whether 28mm tyres would be too much to drop down to, I unfortunately don't have any experience of tyres between full mountain bike 2.2" tyres and my 23mm on the road bike. Another bike that caught my eye was the pinnacle lithium series as they are more swayed towards mountain bike, but would he really gain that much from it?
Any bike has to have proper mudguard mounts and pannier mounts as he does use them.