Hi everyone, I'd like to just say thanks so much for all the helpful advice I've had from this great forum - it's a real mine of information.
So, after going to Bruge in the campervan for a week after last Christmas, and taking our his & hers Spec Hardrock's, myself and the mrs got into our biking again. All well and good in flat old Belgium, but when I tried to continue after getting back to hilly Derbyshire, I got fed up puffing and panting.
Then I found this wonderful forum, and after some deliberation, and a little tinkering, have assemble the new powered family fleet:
I was on a fairly limited budget for 3 bikes, but 2 of them are new, 1 second hand. We're all loving it, and ride as a family every week, if not more often. We do find road stuff quite boring, thus the canal paths, cycle tracks and trail centres have been our staple rides.
I'm now hooked, and am looking to the next 'toy'. I'm finding my Neo Xtrem a little lacking on the fast, proper off road stuff, particularly downhill. I test rode a FS Haibike before buying it, and found the Neo had a little more oomph. I think the off road story would be very different between the Haibike and Neo?
So, after going to Bruge in the campervan for a week after last Christmas, and taking our his & hers Spec Hardrock's, myself and the mrs got into our biking again. All well and good in flat old Belgium, but when I tried to continue after getting back to hilly Derbyshire, I got fed up puffing and panting.
Then I found this wonderful forum, and after some deliberation, and a little tinkering, have assemble the new powered family fleet:
I was on a fairly limited budget for 3 bikes, but 2 of them are new, 1 second hand. We're all loving it, and ride as a family every week, if not more often. We do find road stuff quite boring, thus the canal paths, cycle tracks and trail centres have been our staple rides.
I'm now hooked, and am looking to the next 'toy'. I'm finding my Neo Xtrem a little lacking on the fast, proper off road stuff, particularly downhill. I test rode a FS Haibike before buying it, and found the Neo had a little more oomph. I think the off road story would be very different between the Haibike and Neo?