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10-01-08 | 01:59 PM

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joose

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From: Long Eaton, Derbyshire

Bikes: Dahon D3

chagzuki

Firstly let me describe myself.

I'm 30, male, reasonably fit, 5'10, 14 stones. I'm heavy for my height because I'm broad not fat.

To improve my comfit on the Curve I have:

These are all the things I have done to the bike to improve the ride.

However, my real problems are.. and which I don't think I can solve.

If I extend the seat post fully out for my legs, I'm really hunched over in a short space which hurts my wrists and give me quite bad backache.

If I lower the seat enough for that to stop, my legs and knees hurt and my wrists still hurt.

My handlebars are as high as they can go.

For short distances, for me personally up to 5 miles its fine, over that is where I get the problems.

I want to say that these problems are mine and don't mean that others would notice anything? The other thing to say is that I believe personally I chose the wrong size bike and I would of been better on a 20" bike so that I could of stretched out more.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing

In my defence, I was not expecting to travel the full distance home each night from work (9 miles) but I'm enjoying cycling again so much!!!

So for me (I speak for no others) I would now choose a 20" bike so that I could stretch out more (or perhaps a Mezzo as they seem to be wide?), I would choose steel so less vibration came through the frame. Otherwise, If I was to stick to my original plan (which was to travel halfway to work on the train and halfway back for some good exercise) I would choose a Strida as I believe it would be fine upto the 5 miles I do by travelling on the train and when on the train I would have the minimum of fuss with it.

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