Advantages: fast, light, high spec for cheap price Disadvantages: None
...to be increased quite significantly to get anything that would last.
I spent hours researching, joining forums (I highly recommend Bike Radar) etc in order to find the ideal bike in my budget.
Whilst taking my trusty steed of a mountain bike to Pauls Cycles in Dereham I thought that I'd better have a quick look at the small selection of racers in the shop. It was there I saw it…… The Trek 1200 in black and red.
I knew the Trek name and knew that they were generally a good, quality brand. That was it though.
The price was £799 which was way over my budget, but because it was a 2006 model I could have something knocked off it. The bike was described as 'shop soiled' since it had fallen over and had a tiny scratch on the frame. If the bloke hadn't told me this I would never have noticed it despite looking over the bike thoroughly. This led...
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...of room at the back of my heel she responded with the immortal line ‘yes, dear, but you must remember that you’re wearing health shoes now.’ Feeling suitably admonished and also like I’d aged 60 years in the space of 5 minutes I handed over 29 quid for a bright pink pair (called, with no apparent logic whatsoever, ‘Caymans’) and wore them home.
The main negative is that they’re not great for driving. They are really big and clunky and the soles are nearly an inch thick so it’s hard to feel the pedals and if you drive a car that has pedals that are close together, like mine, it’s very easy for your foot to slip from the accelerator to the brake and vice versa. Mind you, for the thrill seekers amongst you that does give the 5 minute drive to the shops a certain nerve-jangling charm.
In most other respects, though, they do exactly...
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25.09.2003
06.10.2008
