> > > The hybrid/comfort bike certainly makes sense, but I'm > planning on doing > some light touring once the pounds are off. Nothing too > long, maybe 2 > or 3 days round trip. Trailering will strictly be a local endeavor;
> taking the kids to pre-school, grocery getting, etc. I have > no plans to > lug a trailer out of town. > > The drop bars are a necessity. I can't see not being able to switch > hand positions from time to time. Touring on a single-speed sounds > nuts, though. ;-) > There now seem to be 2 types of hybrid: fitness and comfort. The comfort ones look like crap, quite frankly. The fitness ones look a bit like mine, which is a 1994 Marin, double-butted cro-moly steel frame jobby - basically a touring bike with flat bars. I've done multi-day touring on it without any problems, and I'll be doing a bit more in a few weeks. I put some of these on earlier this year, though, to give a bit more variety of hand position, and they're quite good: http://ukbikestore.co.uk/acatalog/info_ERGON_MR2.html However, I am also considering changing to touring bars, or buying a new audax or touring bike. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
