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Spending 3k on either when you've not ridden it seems like it's asking for trouble though.
Cant remember last time demo'd a bike before I bought it. Think I seem to take the approach of buying EVERY bike and randomly sooner or later one fits me and I like it...
Out of curiosity, if you've got the Sherpa what's your use-case for SS?
Sherpa; geared, rigid, all day Chilterns/Ridgeway bike
Sir9; Singlespeed, maybe plus tyres, maybe hardtail short local blasts. Make Swinley/Crowthorne Woods/Barossa less dull bike. Have always had a SS MTB in shed.
Also have a Broken Road hardtail which use for bikepacking as well. Think one of three may well go when have got Sir9 up and running which will take me 6 months, knowing me
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Cant remember last time demo'd a bike before I bought it.
Good point. I do typically do a bit of sizing chat with Scherrit and kinda know what I want/need with road/TT stuff though. Because MTB is so far removed from my normal riding I just don't know what certain geos feel like. I don't know if I'll like a bike's handling or it will do what I want it to do. So, dropping £3k on something that turns out to annoy the piss out of me is the last thing I want to do. This is probably why I've been umming and arring about MTBs for a year now.
Gotcha. I'm waiting on some parts to turn the Inbred back into an actual MTB.
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Ok, that kinda makes sense why they have the two options. Spending 3k on either when you've not ridden it seems like it's asking for trouble though.
Another question I've been pondering is how does some mug like me tune a flash, new suspension fork if they have no idea how it's even supposed to behave?
Out of curiosity, if you've got the Sherpa what's your use-case for SS?