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Old 08-22-09, 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by dynaryder
First off,I'm guessing the shop showed you a Specialized Sirrus and a Kona Dew? For the type of riding you mentioned,a Dew would be perfect.
The Sirrus would suck - it can't take a wide enough tyre for offroad. The Dew comes with 37mm tyres, so it at least scrapes into being offroad capable.

It's basically a rigid MTB with road gearing and 700cc wheels. As long as you stick to trail work it should do fine,and it will be much better on the street than a actual MTB.
Wrong. Certainly compared to a hardtail rigid fork MTB. Why do you believe otherwise? Otoh, the price on the Dew is good.

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