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PhilDAS
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Well dad couldn’t find the Calibre in stock anywhere. I told him it was the yardstick but to try find something of an older model at a proper bike shop.
He called the better of the shops this morning and ended up getting an end-of-line Felt Virtue Three for £1100. It was between that and a Mondraker Tracker R. I’d have gone Mondraker with the sram X7 but he preferred the colourway of the Felt, and the geo seemed more suitable for his fucked back.
Add osteoarthritis, knee injuries and a lifetime of middle distance, marathon running, and a few Iron Mans, it could have been a Carrera so long as it suited his awful posture.
It’s literally for cycling to/from the athletics track and riding alongside his youth athletics kiddos he’s coaching. Doubt he bothers hitting light trails with me, so fingers crossed the Felt will suit him for a few years.