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Living Room / Re: bicycling suddenly a British speciality?!
« Last post by tomos on July 22, 2017, 02:33 AM »One of my cycling buddies is considering buying a second-hand Bergamont Vitess 5.0.
What is your view of the bike now? Did you also find a less "bruising" seat for it?-IainB (July 21, 2017, 02:55 PM)
I loved the bike -- was fast, light, solid -- used it mainly going into town - 14 km one way, but also a bit in the woods.
Now I did have problems with the bike -- but they were more to do with me not fitting the bike design, than with the actual bike. Some background:
From years of drawing on computers, my wrists are very, eh, 'sensitive', for want of a better word. I cannot put a lot of weight on them; have to be careful not to work with the hand/wrist in a bent position. I also have minor shoulder problem on one side, which possibly related to hips being slightly out of line.
The bergamot has lower handlebars than my previous bikes, and they are designed to lean on with the wrists bent. With that combination I ended up with wrist problems and neck problems and stopped using it. I was away for three weeks last year, and a friend of mine borrowed the bike -- she loves it and ended up buying it from me -- I got a new camera with the money...
So the bike is still in use and going well after a year -- very hard to say exactly, but has been doing maybe an average of 70km a week over the temperate months (about ten months use since it was bought).
I dont know how much value that info has, also considering I've only ever been a casual cyclist, so would possibly be judging differently to anyone who calls themselves a cyclist.
