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24-06-11, 07:49 PM
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24-06-11, 07:56 PM
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Ordered, pick-up tomorrow. I'll take loads of sassy pics of me posing on the bike for you all, in return for your advice
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24-06-11, 09:49 PM
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24-06-11, 10:07 PM
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I'll try my best to look almost-as-homosexual as Reeder
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24-06-11, 10:17 PM
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26-06-11, 06:57 PM
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Allan - you got it?
Did a cheeky little 25 miler on my Planet X today, chuffin hot and I struggled on the bigger hills - need to start getting some regular miles under my belt...
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26-06-11, 10:37 PM
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I got it. Did 30 miles, and I feel like crying. My back kills (I have back spasms(arch in lower back isn't as prominent as it should be)) to the extent I don't even want to ride it again. And it's bumpy as hell, Halford gave me the impression it was a hybrid! It's totally more racing than road! Thought I don't doubt it's a great bike, I've had two significant reasons to not use is on my first ever ride. So unhappy, I was in love at first sight.
I'm goign to Halfords tomorrow to ask if it's too late to exchange. 
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26-06-11, 11:19 PM
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There's a lot you can do to a bike to improve comfort... Move bars around, etc. You could also see if there's space to squeeze in a fatter tyre but 28 is a reasonable size already. Check the pressures in the tyres too, they might be pumped up immensely hard (up to a point harder tyres means going faster/less effort, but on bad surfaces that doesn't always apply and it does mean a rougher ride)
But it is a hybrid, and it's really not that racy. It's on the faster end of hybrids mind.
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27-06-11, 06:54 AM
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