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[camwyn]

It would appear that the good people of Massachusetts open even their retail businesses nice and early. I just got off the phone with Dynamic Bicycles. Seems their Sprint model will be available last week of July or early in August. It's basically a lighter version of my current bike, but with a solid front fork so the front end is lower by a couple of inches and drop handlebars so I'll be riding further forward and more streamlined. Given that the ship weight of my current bike was 37 pounds and that the web site says this one is only 26 pounds, I figure it'll be a good bike for the TA New York Century.

(And rather to my relief, they're only charging $649 for it. Given how much some bicycles cost, I was worried.)

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[brashley46.livejournal.com]

That one looks pretty good. I would only worry about the spread between gears with an internal hub ... but then I did my first century, the one I blew out my right knee on, on a Peugeot Classique I'd fitted a Sturmey-Archer 5-speed hub to. 7 speeds would be better than 5 in the same range, for sure!

[camwyn]

The last time I checked, I think the gear spread covered the equivalent of gears 3 through 18 on a 21-speed bike. I'd have to check the ratios to be sure, though.

What's weird is to realise I'm gonna have two bikes and I have a perfectly good reason for that. One of 'em's for everyday workhorse riding, and one's for... well, the big event, and for other events (at least it had better be, because it's stupid to only have a bike for one event). Riding the heavier bike's probably going to be good for helping with endurance training too, even if the posture's different...

... nope, still weird.

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

::shrug:: I've got two, but one's a tandem.

It's not so much the overall range as the range between gears. On my 21-speed Bianchi I can shift through small increments fairly smoothly. You may have some bigger shifts there.