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  • I'm thinking about this. Any thoughts?


    I have the version from a few years ago. Mine is a comfortable ride over long distances but stiff enough and climbs well (altho it looks like the frame has been tweaked a fair bit since I bought).

    I now feel a need to explain my decision given the rest of the thread: I was only given the option of getting a Giant bike (I got it cheap), so it's not the first brand I'd like to have bought to reflect my good taste in bikes (and stop people judging me harshly around RP). But as the world's biggest bike manufacturer*, Giant's buying power makes them well specced for the prize (viz also Hippo's S-Works).

    I won't buy a better bike until this one gives up and I'm a better rider. I would feel like a bit of a cunt riding a ~£5k bike given I'm not even a mid standard club rider.

    *my understanding - until some smart arse on teh interwebs tells me different

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