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velosaurus in reply to @hippy

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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hippy in reply to @velosaurus

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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velosaurus in reply to @hippy

I always found demo bikes never quite fit right, stem to long, wrong seat, gears etc Also try and get an XL on demo! For me its only when I have got a bike set up how I like that I can assess if its a keeper. Hence the principle of trying every frame until I randomly find one that works.

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