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Originally Posted by Northendzone
No bike recommendations, but I have purchased 5 bikes from Cyclepath on Macleod. I have found them fine to deal with, although there have been a couple of time where they annoyed me.
What kind of biking do you plan to do after the 500k tour?
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I purchased my Trek from them. I will probably stop in to see what they have.
I plan to do a short tour every year with this bike and outside of that I would use it as my main bike for a bit of commuting, and a daily rider in the summertime. I live downtown so i'm often hopping on the Trek for short rides to one place or another, so this is likely what I would be using it for mostly.
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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
I ride a Surly Long Haul Trucker. I find it very, very comfortable and it would fly through a 500km trip without the slightest issue. I did a short tour at the end of last summer with it from Shanghai out into one of the neighbouring provinces fully loaded up with everything except front fork bags and it was great. Gearing was good for going up quite steep mountains fully loaded and for cruising at a good speed on flat land.
Mine was around $1,800 new, so I would guess you could get a second hand one in your price range.
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Last night I ran across Surly bikes again. I was totally looking at the LHT a couple years ago, so funny you brought this up.
I did a bit of reading on the LHT last night and I can't find a review of someone who doesn't like it. I saw that Bow cycle and Campione Cycles carry surly in Calgary, neither of which i'm super jazzed about. Where did you get yours? Internet or buy it when you were back in Canada? I think they would be hard to find in China.
When did you buy yours? Is it the disc brake version or the rim brake and 26" or 700c? Bow cycle has the Disc brake version for $2,000. I guess the issue with that is I will have to add on fenders, rear rack, pedals, panniers