Recent content by Johnecybrid

Do what you can my friend, and don't stop until you can't do it anymore.

That's a great way to look at it, and no, I would never get up some hills in tour mode, so that is a good point, thank you.

Seven years ago I was riding my Trek Madone...life is a bitch.

Can I assume you are young(ish) fit and well Matthew? Let me put it this way, I call a hill steep, when I can just about to manage to get up it it turbo mode, on the 51t sprocket...You get the picture?

At the risk of repeating myself, if I could ride a 7kg road bike I would, but I cant. I am 77 with health issues and I need Bosch type power to get me up the steeper Devonshire climbs. I currently own a Trek Powerfly 5, which I like, and find comfortable to ride, and have cycled a 75 miles there...

Well that of course is your choice. I find my bike comfortable to ride, but rather it was lighter.

Wow, pretty impressive figures...108nm torque, phew

Interesting reading but I am looking for a hard tail. Thanks anyway, much appreciated.

Ah no, about 10.000 on two bikes but they had a lot of tread left, when I sold the first bike.

I have done near 20.000 miles on my Continental Contact plus tyres without a puncture, but they are an absolute pig to mount. I may give the Schwalbe's a try when mine wear out but that will be a while, they seem to go on forever, probably much like the Schwalbe ones do i suspect.

Manhandling my bike is difficult, but manageable. My garage is at the bottom of a steep drive and to get the bike in the way I want, I have to do practically a three point turn to do so. Also on one of my rides there are a couple of tight turns and have to stop and scoot around them, again not a...

Looks nice but am not interested in speed and only ride on the road, so a FS bike would be a waste I think.

I did chip my last bike, and yes it did go a bit faster but after a while I didn't really see the point (for me.) You would need a lot of carbon bits to lighten a bike the weighs probably 26ish kg to start with.

Thanks for the reply Matthew. I think in the back of my mind I was thinking 55nm of torque wasn't going to be suitable. As you can imagine I don’t want to spend a fair some of money for something that isn't going to work for me. Lowering the gearing wouldn't help either I think, so need to...

Greetings everyone. Could use some advice please regarding my next Ebike. For starters I am 77 years old. For the last seven years I have ridden Cube and Trek cx powered ebikes, my current one being a Trek Powerfly 5. It’s a great bike, but heavy and not that manourabel, at least not for me. I...