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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...

Hello each. i am considering buying a Canyon emountain bike but slightly put off ordering online, I think that’s the only way you can buy one. i appreciate there is not a lot to go wrong and I have no problem unboxing and putting the bike together myself, but am concerned about how they would...

Excellent idea, they have live chat so will check that out. Cheers

That’s not a bad option though Plymouth to Surry is quite a drive. Canyon’s are only available mail order from Germany, that’s how they keep the prices down, but they seem to have a service centre in Surry as far as I can see. I also have an ebike that in the three years I have owned it has been...

Well yes, I quite agree and I would rather buy locally for those reasons. Just so happens I like the look of that Canyon and think for the price it’s a fair deal. The fact that if there are problems with the bike and difficulty having the software updated if it becomes available may well stop...

Good morning. Does anyone have any experience of buying a bike from Canyon. i am considering buying a Pathlight:ON 6.0 but am a little concerned about buying mail order. i am not so worried about assembly, but have no idea how you would manage with software updates and first service etc, as I...