Wifes new bike

bowden769

what is beta

Carrera Valcun or Specialized Rockhopper SL 2011. Trying to sort the mrs out with a lighter bike she seems to struggle on the accents

cooldad

Scots or Welch accents?

cooldad

But some info would help - links to the bikes, what does she ride. Does she even want to ride.
And for my own curiosity, what you ride.

arthur_scrimshaw

cooldad wrote:

But some info would help - links to the bikes, what does she ride. Does she even want to ride.
And for my own curiosity, what you ride.

You're only being (kind of) nice because he shares the same taste in avatars. Snap out of it!

The Rookie

Clearly an accented keyboard....

bowden769

cooldad wrote:

But some info would help - links to the bikes, what does she ride. Does she even want to ride.
And for my own curiosity, what you ride.

She already has the valcun, the speesh is for sale on here in the for sale section, she does want to ride but she stuggles getting up the hills, she says that the bike is too heavy. I ride a boardman comp HT, what do u ride ..

cooldad

If you get the Spesh, take the Recon Golds - well worth the extra.

bowden769

will do !!

is the spesh alot lighter than the valcun

bartimaeus

This Spesh? Looks pretty good to me, and I would take the air forks.

I would expect that the Rockhopper would be significantly lighter than a Carrera Vulcan. Vulcans are 31-32 lbs I think - and I'd guess that this Rockhopper might be 3-4 lbs lighter than that... maybe more.

cooldad

bowden769 wrote:

cooldad wrote:

But some info would help - links to the bikes, what does she ride. Does she even want to ride.
And for my own curiosity, what you ride.

She already has the valcun, the speesh is for sale on here in the for sale section, she does want to ride but she stuggles getting up the hills, she says that the bike is too heavy. I ride a boardman comp HT, what do u ride ..

Was just asking as I see loads of wives/kids out on the trails riding nasty heavy BSO's and looking miserable whilst the husband/father has a few grands worth of carbon loveliness.

The Rookie

VULCAN....Spesh.....a lot......ascent....... sorry but it's driving me nuts!

The vulcans weigh about 13.5Kg give or take, I doubt the hopper is much lighter.

For what you'd spend you'd get a lighter better bike spending half that on improving the Vulcan, so better tyres, lighter tubes and a decent pair of used forks would cost you about £100-125 and would save between 1 and 1.5Kg.

cooldad

Ascent. Ascent. Ascent. You're both driving me nuts.