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Tbh for my needs any of them would be absolutely fine. Do like the way the mk2 looks with the 29+ wheels though, makes the back end look slightly less crazy long. That must be good fun to ride. Do + sized tyres not feel incredibly sluggish? Or do you just accept it and pootle? I’ve got limited experience or riding anything larger than road tyres tbh.
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I've got the parkiside model that LIDL did on one of their specials, which sadly it means they don't sell them anymore, they do pop up second hand occasionally. It's almost certainly rebadged version of another existing cheap model, but it was £90. It works a treat.
FWIW, my dads a mechanical engineer and his take was that at the lower end, there's likely to be very little practical difference between any of the models around £100. I've seen near identical 24-50l clarke/draper etc. models pop up on gumtree/ebay for £40-80 in the past. Depends if you want to risk buying 2nd hand though, if -like me - you only use it for blowing up a few tyres, it's probably unlikely to go wrong any time soon.
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Cog spacing is the same (I think!), obviously the ratios are different, but the way they’re designed is that MTB cassettes
overhang the 11t cog beyond the end of the free huboverhangs the big sprocket inboard of the freehub to get the spread, where as road freehubs are slightly wider to accommodate the extra width of the cassette.I’d you google something to the effect of ‘hg800 10 speed freehub’ you’ll see what I mean.
The other option is swap for a Campag freehub & casette, Campag also managed to make 11sp cassettes fit 10sp hubs (again someone correct me if I’m wrong). All 11sp cassettes are cross compatible in practice. That would make it easier to get road appropriate ratios.
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I’m pretty sure if you use an 11sp shimano MTB cassette it’ll fit a 10sp hub. I think the shimano HG800 cassette fits 10sp road wheels, I’m hoping someone can confirm...(edit- google seems to think I’m right)
For some fucking retarded reason when shimano went 11sp the road dept made the freehub fractionally wider, the MTB department left the freehub as is and changed the cassette design to fit, go figure...
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Yeh the WI stuff looks the shit, but with a price tag to match. I reckon the SPA own brand stuff is super good value but not overly special looking. Black ano on the rotors would fix the laity-ness.
There's definitely a gap in the market for a plain looking HT2 compatible crank that takes standard 110 5 bolt chainrings (without looking daft like the sculpted Shimano stuff), doesn't weigh a tonne or cost the earth.
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Depends how you strap it I guess. I envisaged using the webbing on the ‘front’ of the bag, having the zip facing the rider whilst on bike so you could open it whilst riding. Ideally having it strapped in such a way to keep it vaguely ‘upright’ but I probably depends a lot on how much weight you have in it and how you strap it.
Or indeed, at all, whenever it can possibly be avoided. To the point I’ll happy pay a couple of quid more from elsewhere.
In all honesty thought, I’d say 98% of the time I can find everything I want for the same price - or less - from elsewhere.
If you were to buy everything over the course of a year on amazon, the aggregate price probably does even out at the cheaper end. But if you don’t mind shopping around a bit, you can usually avoid amazon entirely and not spend any more.