The push bike thread

[Frankenstrat]

Thanks *thad*, Canning Bridge cycles is little more than 10 minutes walk from where I live and they too stock a nice range of cycles. However, next time I'm in the locality, I'll check out TBE in Belmont. Something which occasionally bothers me is my right wrist will hurt when I'm cycling, I may have some displaced bones in there, so a more upright cycling position will probably benefit me. Also the front suspension of the Apollo could absorb some of the jarring.

I'll post pics when I get whichever bike I finally decide on.

[hooba]

Insane bike race video from Chile.

VCA 2010 RACE RUN on Vimeo

[bigfoot]

Tirreno-Adriatico

Evans seals overall win

[*thad*]

Thanks *thad*, Canning Bridge cycles is little more than 10 minutes walk from where I live and they too stock a nice range of cycles. However, next time I'm in the locality, I'll check out TBE in Belmont. Something which occasionally bothers me is my right wrist will hurt when I'm cycling, I may have some displaced bones in there, so a more upright cycling position will probably benefit me. Also the front suspension of the Apollo could absorb some of the jarring.

I'll post pics when I get whichever bike I finally decide on.

If thats the case go the 'mountain bike' style and get the little bars put on the end which will take the weight off your arms/wrist/hands.

It took me about a month and a least 3 test rides (on the same bike let alone others) of the bike before i decided, could be happier now.

[bigfoot]

McLaren teams with Specialized

[bigfoot]

aussies killing it

Goss wins Milan-San Remo this is MASSIVE

and Matthews strikes again in Murcia sprint

[bigfoot]

MTB carnage BUCS 2011 X.C Carnage! on Vimeo

[*thad*]

ha saw that the other day. A few of those D/H guys get around ok.

[bigfoot]

who's in ?

Course | Canberra Tour

[*thad*]

bit far for me to come for a ride (plus im not really into the road thing)

[hooba]

German engineered bike lock.

The Best Bike Lock Puts Your Bike Out of Reach - Transportation - GOOD - StumbleUpon

[Frankenstrat]

I've been looking at the Apollo Allegro, it's a fine looking bike but it has real skinny tyres, they're Kenda Kwest 700 x 28c. I have absolutely no idea what those figures mean and I would prefer a slightly wider tyre. What's the width of a 28c compared with, say a 32c? I don't want MTB width tyres but I don't really want ultra-skinny road-racing ones either. I've searched through the Kenda tyres web site but it was of little help. Would it be correct to assume that 28c=28mm and 32c=32mm?

[bigfoot]

Would it be correct to assume that 28c=28mm and 32c=32mm?

correct - 28 would be the widest you could reasonable fit on a 700c wheel. plus any wider and they're likely to rub on the frame.

28 is plenty wide for crusing around on - i run 23



aussies killing it at the world championships - bring on london 2012!

Bobridge - gold in individual pursuit



Teams 4000m persuit gold in 3:57

[Frankenstrat]

Thanks bigfoot, I appreciate the response. Nice pics of the Aussie cycle team ^ I saw on the news that Anna Meares had scored gold in Appeldoorn. Sadly during the AFL season all other sports cease to exist so far as most TV news coverage is concerned. Thank goodness for SBS.

[*thad*]

true that.
Getting closer to the bike of choice hey.