Which Mountain Bike

[tommer9]

I know the place. Good cider.

[Adam]

thats the one cider and a pasty for £4.00 or something.

[tommer9]

Yeah, cider and nasty i reckon- those things wont do your insides much good!

[Dean Lofthouse]

Ended up with the one Tommer spotted, just got to pick it up from ruthin.

 

Forks alone were £510 and got it for £600

 

Trek 6700 SLR Mountain Bike (Hardtail) on eBay (end time 27-Jul-09 19:46:31 BST)

[John Hancock]

Top quality bit of kit that - Well done Dean!!

[old snake]

Looks nice that Dean,been thinking of gettin a bike again myself and after reading this thread looks like i'll be trawlin ebay myself now!

[tommer9]

Ended up with the one Tommer spotted, just got to pick it up from ruthin.

 

Forks alone were £510 and got it for £600

 

Trek 6700 SLR Mountain Bike (Hardtail) on eBay (end time 27-Jul-09 19:46:31 BST)

 

Hope you enjoy it, my trek and the one my mate had were the best bikes i ever rode- lovely frame, well put together bikes. Didnt have a car for years.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Got the bike home yesterday and within one hour had spent £120 on it.

 

2x new tyres

1x rear deraily (cant spell it)

1x Pump for tyres

1x Puncture kit

 

Need a comfy saddle, really hurts my ass and had to take off those silly pedals with the mechanism for clipping into proper shoes.

 

Went out on it with the dogs along the canal this morning at 6.30am, did five miles at a steady pace for the dogs, had to stop three times, twice to retrieve one of the dogs from the canal and once to retrieve a duck from the dogs mouth and let it go.

 

Didn't get out of breath but could feel my legs burning a bit. Will go out on my own this week and give it some extra pace, going to take a bit of getting back into, steady away, I'll build up the pace and distance steadily.

[Mick Stockbridge]

Nice one Dean! I can see an addiction coming on. You were'nt breathing hard cos you're heart n lungs are fit from climbing, the legs are just getting used to being used in a different way. Keep it up the dogs obviously love it if nothing else.

[Jonny69]

Got the bike home yesterday and within one hour had spent £120 on it.

 

2x new tyres

1x rear deraily (cant spell it)

1x Pump for tyres

1x Puncture kit

 

Need a comfy saddle, really hurts my ass and had to take off those silly pedals with the mechanism for clipping into proper shoes.

 

Went out on it with the dogs along the canal this morning at 6.30am, did five miles at a steady pace for the dogs, had to stop three times, twice to retrieve one of the dogs from the canal and once to retrieve a duck from the dogs mouth and let it go.

 

Didn't get out of breath but could feel my legs burning a bit. Will go out on my own this week and give it some extra pace, going to take a bit of getting back into, steady away, I'll build up the pace and distance steadily.

 

Dean,

 

Get yourself some `proper` shoes and pedals, you will never look back, I have got the Crank brothers ones and they are excellent.

 

Saddle wise I run a Tune Speedneedle carbon saddle (literally a piece of carbon) which looks very painful but is actually very comfy because the carbon moulds to your ass. Also light because I am sad about things like the weight of my bike.

 

Below: Just about to climb 1000 vertical M in one climb up towards the mer du glace in Chamonix as proof that carbon saddles are comfy.

 

 

Below: Proof that Spd pedals and superlight xc bikes dont slow you down. Get out there and ride.

 

 

Btw where are you based in the country?