Clandy
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No downsides at all. Moultons have stronger frames, less wind resistance, are nippier, accelerate faster, and are more comfortable (and if you buy the separable frame, mine isn't, they will fit in the boot of a Mini).
Have you been properly smitten...with a new bike?
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No downsides at all. Moultons have stronger frames, less wind resistance, are nippier, accelerate faster, and are more comfortable (and if you buy the separable frame, mine isn't, they will fit in the boot of a Mini).
Kirstie
Über Member
I'm not smitten by any of my bikes but I do have a glowing admiration for all of them as they are all unique in their own way and do the job they are each supposed to do very well. I like to have one in the house for company too...
Clandy
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theloafer
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going to see this bike poss fri .. http://www.westbrookcycles.co.uk/bi...ynapse-carbon-sram-apex-road-bike-2011-p88441 one of our club lads was in there today he say,s it look,s the bees knees 
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Fletch456
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going to see this bike poss fri .. http://www.westbrook...ike-2011-p88441 one of our club lads was in there today he say,s it look,s the bees knees
They've had great reviews...be interested to know how you get on with it.
PpPete
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- Chandler's Ford
I rode a Van Nic Yukon the other day - I'm smitten.
Just about to order it, just havn't decided how to tell the OH.
Just about to order it, just havn't decided how to tell the OH.
I just can't get excited about the prospect or promise of owning a new bicycle.
I have a road bike that I very nearly love... And an MTB and a fixed-wheel for which I feel some fondness.
They make me look forward to a ride, but I think we're more pals than sweethearts.
The only inanimate objects I've ever truly adored still hold a special place in my heart, but are not bicycles:
1. Citroen 2cv
2. Moto Morini 3 1/2 Sport
I love to ride my bicycles, but have no pictures of them and if they were stolen I'd have forgotten their colour in a week.
I still miss my first 2cv (a 435cc fire-snorter) and still have my first Morini.
I have a road bike that I very nearly love... And an MTB and a fixed-wheel for which I feel some fondness.
They make me look forward to a ride, but I think we're more pals than sweethearts.
The only inanimate objects I've ever truly adored still hold a special place in my heart, but are not bicycles:
1. Citroen 2cv
2. Moto Morini 3 1/2 Sport
I love to ride my bicycles, but have no pictures of them and if they were stolen I'd have forgotten their colour in a week.
I still miss my first 2cv (a 435cc fire-snorter) and still have my first Morini.
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
The first proper bike I had I was truely smitten with in the way that only a 10 year old child can be. It was nothing special at all. It was a simple gents bike with a Sturmy Archer 3 gear hub. It was brown. I don't even think its make was visible anywhere so I assume it had been painted over. I was fantastically excited about this bike and loved riding it.
I was almost as excited but the next bike I had which was a definite step up. It was an Elswick 5 speed racer and had sachs huret gears which I thought were sophisticated beyond belief.
Then I got a proper 10 or 12 speed (can't remember) which was again a step up. It was the bargain basement copy of the Raliegh Team Panasonic and again I was thrilled with this bike and wish I still had it.
Ever since then I have been excited to have my bikes but never quite to the same degree. All of the first three represented something I hadn't had before and so had a certain novelty excitement to them and they all helped me to have independance. As I got older these things became more common place to me and I've never had another bike that has really represented any great leap forward in standards for me, sticking as I always have to the lower end of the budget range. I think that if I ever move up to the next eschelon of bike machinery excellence that I will again be excited by the thing it'self as well as the ability to be able to just go out and have a bike ride somewhere.
I am very fond of my current bike which is a Python Quantum 8000. It's a few years old now and it got stolen once but I got it back after I saw it cahined up in town. Long story short, I got it back and it wasn't the bloke who had it who nicked it, he'd bought it in good faith from Cash Generator. The point being though that when I saw my bike and when I realised I was going to get it back I was absolutely thrilled because I did like it quite a lot. The bike I had used as a replacement had really made me apreciate it but that's a whole other story.
I was almost as excited but the next bike I had which was a definite step up. It was an Elswick 5 speed racer and had sachs huret gears which I thought were sophisticated beyond belief.
Then I got a proper 10 or 12 speed (can't remember) which was again a step up. It was the bargain basement copy of the Raliegh Team Panasonic and again I was thrilled with this bike and wish I still had it.
Ever since then I have been excited to have my bikes but never quite to the same degree. All of the first three represented something I hadn't had before and so had a certain novelty excitement to them and they all helped me to have independance. As I got older these things became more common place to me and I've never had another bike that has really represented any great leap forward in standards for me, sticking as I always have to the lower end of the budget range. I think that if I ever move up to the next eschelon of bike machinery excellence that I will again be excited by the thing it'self as well as the ability to be able to just go out and have a bike ride somewhere.
I am very fond of my current bike which is a Python Quantum 8000. It's a few years old now and it got stolen once but I got it back after I saw it cahined up in town. Long story short, I got it back and it wasn't the bloke who had it who nicked it, he'd bought it in good faith from Cash Generator. The point being though that when I saw my bike and when I realised I was going to get it back I was absolutely thrilled because I did like it quite a lot. The bike I had used as a replacement had really made me apreciate it but that's a whole other story.
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Fletch456
Guru
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- North Hampshire
Pete - Be interested to hear how you get on with Yukon (and telling the other half). Youve test ridden? How does it ride? They are said to be something pretty special by some.
Xiorell
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- Location
- Merthyr, Wales
I am obsessed with my new bike (also first since I was a teenager) and it's not even anything special, just wanna go out and ride around.
suecsi
Active Member
- Location
- Feltham, Middlesex
I have to say I am pretty smitten by my Brompton - even more so after it got me all the way home Wednesday night when the trains went loopy .... it is pimped up a little with black reflective skulls on the main frame (the frame is red)
viper
New Member
- Location
- Southampton
Smitten, only with a Bike i shouldnt realy afford , a FOCUS EXTREME MTB , what a bike
theloafer
Legendary Member
- Location
- newton aycliffe
hi fletch
went todat to see the cannondale...
boy is it light lad in shop says the double tap are easy to get used to got one on order ...but not in till end of the month well every thing come,s to he who waits... 
http://www.westbrookcycles.co.uk/bi...ynapse-carbon-sram-apex-road-bike-2011-p88441 also got it for ..£1,500
went todat to see the cannondale...
boy is it light lad in shop says the double tap are easy to get used to got one on order ...but not in till end of the month well every thing come,s to he who waits... http://www.westbrookcycles.co.uk/bi...ynapse-carbon-sram-apex-road-bike-2011-p88441 also got it for ..£1,500
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Fletch456
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- North Hampshire
hi fletch
went todat to see the cannondale...
http://www.westbrook...ike-2011-p88441 also got it for ..£1,500
Hi Loafer - I can share your pleasure..went for a ride with a pal who got a Super Six 105 last weekend (and his first carbon) and he totally loved it. moving from Al/C I can see why - I had a quick ride on it in his road and it's a lovely ride. Comparable to the Trek 4.7 I but a smidgeon stiffer. It's also a very nice Prologo Scratch Pro saddle they've put on it.
