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After discussing some here:
It turned out that amidst the bike shortage, the LBS in the town at the beach that we go regularly had gotten a big allotment of trek bikes.
We ended up with his and hers verve 3 bikes. The wife almost changed her mind for a beach cruiser, but she realized these were the best for what we were looking to do in terms of distance and use on trips. I’m still very interested in some sort of a fitness style bike, maybe sell my canondale road bike towards something like the fx4 or Jamie Sequel. If the LBS had an fx model 4 I may have had a much stronger consideration to go with that and upsize the tires. Since the FX3 and Verve 3 are more or less identical other than about 2 lbs of tires, 1 lb of a spring loaded seat stem, and 2 lbs of frame (different geometry with skinnier tires, all components identical), I figure I’ll hold out and get a 1x fitness oriented hybrid or a gravel bike or something if I can actually put the time and miles in.
Put in just the first five miles, at the beach, so street, boardwalk, and actually some gravel/construction. The bikes ride great. Geared well so you can putt along with the kids at 6-7 mph, cruise forever at 10-11, and while I havent tried to see how fast it can go, but high gear on the front, I was at 14-15 without thinking much, with a tag-along, with three or four rear gears left.
Bikes for comfortable recreational riding?
We bike as much as we can when it’s nice out. Nothing terribly far, and no mountain or trail biking for a while when we have small kids. Just streets, rail to trails, boardwalks, etc. with kids and trying to do small chores by bike, we usually are set up with a tagalong or trailer on each bike...
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It turned out that amidst the bike shortage, the LBS in the town at the beach that we go regularly had gotten a big allotment of trek bikes.
We ended up with his and hers verve 3 bikes. The wife almost changed her mind for a beach cruiser, but she realized these were the best for what we were looking to do in terms of distance and use on trips. I’m still very interested in some sort of a fitness style bike, maybe sell my canondale road bike towards something like the fx4 or Jamie Sequel. If the LBS had an fx model 4 I may have had a much stronger consideration to go with that and upsize the tires. Since the FX3 and Verve 3 are more or less identical other than about 2 lbs of tires, 1 lb of a spring loaded seat stem, and 2 lbs of frame (different geometry with skinnier tires, all components identical), I figure I’ll hold out and get a 1x fitness oriented hybrid or a gravel bike or something if I can actually put the time and miles in.
Put in just the first five miles, at the beach, so street, boardwalk, and actually some gravel/construction. The bikes ride great. Geared well so you can putt along with the kids at 6-7 mph, cruise forever at 10-11, and while I havent tried to see how fast it can go, but high gear on the front, I was at 14-15 without thinking much, with a tag-along, with three or four rear gears left.
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