afraser78

Hi everyone

I'm Angela from Glasgow. I have 3 kids and a husband. I'm a nail tech/educator of 10 years and have my own wee salon at home.

I have joined this forum to get a better insight into biking. We all have bikes although they are all very different.

I have a hybrid bike (I loved the city bikes in Germany), my daughter has an old dutch style bike, my son has a bmx, the youngest just has a wee bike from halfords and my husband has a road bike.

We have just taken our caravan to The Trossachs and we were looking into get mountain bikes just for the off road tracks with the kids.

Here comes my questions now.

I have a hybrid bike, will this be ok for those kind of trails?
Viking Paris Ladies' Hybrid Bike - Buy Online £299.99

Also with my daughters bike being so old I can't work out what tyres to buy to renew the old ones she has. There are no markings on the tyres, they are old white wall kind, I only have these numbers on the wheel 28 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/8 7000. I have no idea how to find a hybrid tyre to match as she refuses to change her bike.

The men are fine, hubby is looking for a decent mountain bike and we are gonna get the older boy a mountain bike, thee wee one is ok for now.

So thanks for letting me rabble on and I hope someone can help me with my issues.

Regards

Angela

obed7

welcome to the forum. I can not help with your questions, hopefully other will have more knowledge in that area than I do. You might try asking in the mechanics section and the MTB section of the forum.

Juha

Cheers Angela, welcome to BF!

I've ridden on trails with worse bikes than what you linked to, complete with the front basket and all. But it's got nothing to do with mountain biking as they understand it in the MTB forum. I'd start in Recreational and Family, describe the trails you're planning to ride and see what they suggest. And that tyre question is best answered in Bike Mechanics.

--J

afraser78

Thanks, I'll post in those groups.

cb400bill

Welcome!