18-speed Xage derailers Xage brakes
You sit pretty high on it and it feels like your center of gravity is forward quite a bit. Therefore if you corner at high speed, you get real unstable. It's great for a workout ride through the city where you encounter lots of different surfaces.
Bought it in the winter of 2011-12 and put about 400-miles on it, mostly on my ten-mile workout circuit. You have to be careful on the groove next to sidewalks. I went over the handlebars at about 12 mph because I left the sidewalk into the grass to go around a bump and when I went to get back on, the front tire caught in the groove and threw me. I got roughed up pretty good, but I was back on it again in 2 days. Pretty darn sore ribs for about 3 weeks, though. It happened again later but I had the good judgment to clamp down on the rear brake hard as I got into the darn groove (in a completely different place). I was almost stopped when I went off, so I didn't get banged up.
ReplyDeleteLeaving this bike in Florida for when I'm down here. Left at end of April so won't ride it again until get back down here.