It has certainly been interesting of late with conversations with various bike shop owners and their 'advice' which just translates into 'buy this bike!' - ha!
A few days ago I test rode a Liv Avail SL road bike, it was 'nice' and had potential.
Afterward, I drove over to Birmingham's Specialized Concept Store to test ride a couple of different sized Allez road bikes as I am inbetween sizes. The Allez was number one on my list of potential bikes as a few weeks ago I was blown away with the paint job on the Red Hook edition on display at Evan's Cycles in the city centre - embrace the vividness!
The advice at the Concept Store was second to none, the assistant was top notch and I ended up test riding both sizes around a very spacious car park for 15 mins each. I tried the 52 in the Red Hook edition and the 54 in acid red which is an awesome shocking red/orange colour - I loved the colour(s) of both bikes!
The 54 was the better match for me as it was closer to my Klanker the 3rd setup.
I didn't order from the Concept Store in the end as they were out of stock in the 54 Red Hook, so I ordered from Evans instead, on top of that they are doing their trade an old bike for money off a new bike deal so I bought a kids balance bike for £25 from Argos and traded it in for £100 off my new bike!
It's win win really, I get money off my new klanker and some underprivileged kid(s) get a new bike to play with.
Today I drove into town to collect 'Klanker the Fourth' aka 'Splash o' Colour'
The guy at Evans commented it was a nice bike... 2 minutes after leaving the store a passer by commented 'That's a colourful bike isn't it? Really nice bike!'.. a few minutes later I was walking past a dude in office dress with a phone to his ear... noticed he was looking at the bike as I walked past so I half turned my head and saw that he didn't take his eyes off it!
Was quite surprised it got attention within the first 5 minutes of owning it!
After a bit of alteration - narrower bars, slightly shorter stem and my usual ladies saddle it shall be fine and dandy. 😀
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