So i bought a mountain bike! yeah i know i have not been riding one much, (except the 100km in the raid!) but i need one and fancy carbon ones with hangers and deraillers just bug me at this stage and i cant afford them anyway, also 'performance' mountian bike racing, i think is something i will be doing feck all off, so i went for a workhorse bike. I had a few priorities, first, steel or titanium frame, so steel cause i is broke :), no friggin hanger or derailler, i have broke 3 hangers on 3 different mountain bikes, nearly everyone i know has too, deraillers are a left over design from the early days of road bikes and for a long time i have thought that on a mountain bike they just do not make sense. The belt designs are not there yet, i think or are too expensive and i gave single speeding a full year or sweat and its great but in westcork its a bit of a pain, i mean you dont want to race everytime you go out riding and effectively you have to on the hilly terrain we have here, that or walk and sure if i wanted to do that i would take up downhilling!.
Also tubeless rims on the wheels, they loose air, yes but you get so few punctures its worth it. SO with a super limitied budget and a fairly impossible list of requests i had to wait and wait, (over 6 months!) but finally one came up. Its a genesis IO,reynolds 520 steel frame with an 8 speed internal geared alfine hub and bog standard everything else, it also came with a single speed wheel! bonus. I am sure the hub will be well heavy but its a trade off. Weight versus ever bodging gears? i think i have spent enough time dicking around with deraillers and bending back hangers with my hand, hoping it would not break off in my hand! Have not got the bike yet, it will arrive in 2 weeks, but it should be interesting when it does arrive. I think it will be like my toyota hiace, a bit dead but it will always start!
https://picasaweb.google.com/bunclodyfurlongs/Genesis_IO_with_8spd_Alfine
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