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Saving weight- made them moving the bike about on foot easier, helping with that balance issue I guess
Yea that was also a reason for not going the ebike-route..
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Thanks for the mention.
I did build my dad a bike.
He suffers from Parkinson's but has always been a keen cyclist and used to race and we trained together when I was a child.
But he lost confidence and balance as his illness got worse.The bike is a Surly Crosscheck I converted to disc brakes and 650b.
My experience is that in order to inspire confidence and cycling ability you need:
- hydraulic disc brakes
- low bottom bracket
- big tyres
- low toptube
- bars level with saddle position (not much higher and not any lower / comfort is king)
- good fit
- big grippy pedals
AND I had to fit a dropper seatpost because Parkinson's fucks with the ability to get on a bike and he refused to have a dropped seattube. It was very important for him that the bike didn't look any different.
- hydraulic disc brakes
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Having built a bike for my mum who was a daily local, short trip cyclist, and adapted my 1x1 for my dad who was similar, I found useful things were
Saving weight- made them moving the bike about on foot easier, helping with that balance issue I guess
Simple gears- my Dad rode ss as his ride was totally flat and my mum had 1x to save messing with two shifters
Good brakes- adjusted reach for small hands for mum, powerful old xtr v brakes for dad as his grip wasn’t great
Totally puncture proof tyres even at the expense of a bit of weight and feel so they never had to change a tube
@Hulsroy I think did a good project for his dad with a dropper to help his stopping and starting I think