New Dawes 26"

[Bonefishblues]

Just to revive this and to say thanks...

After your post I got in touch with VSF and now have 10 of their 700c hybrids in our day-hire fleet (still wouldn't use 700c for our cyclecamping holidays) - I have to say that in 25 years I've never seen better assembled and finished bikes. They arrived on time (after 2 1/2 years I'm still waiting for Orbit to fulfill an order for BB Specials!) - there are also no corners cut though the bikes (50s) are the bottom of their range - even the Allen bolts are top quality. I'd recommend anyone looking for a quality bike to check out their website - with the current Euro rate they are bargains.

I've just looked at them, what great value at under £400 at current exchange rates. I can see why you have specced those.

[Sweep]

http://www.fahrradmanufaktur.de/katalog ... uct_id=668

Great value as well taking into account euro exchange rate.

Seem to remember looking at their bikes a while ago and they were aluminium.

10 speed of course!

But I suppose since it's flat bar that could be sorted by changing the right hand shifter.

And why have they gone for Magura HS11 hydraulic rim brakes?

I have a bike with them and they are excellent but on an expedition bike?

Still looks like my best hope is for Dawes to reconfigure that bike of theirs.

[Bicycler]

Has this been mentioned upthread: http://www.ridgeback.co.uk/bike/expedition

[bretonbikes]

Has this been mentioned upthread: http://www.ridgeback.co.uk/bike/expedition

Yes and if they answered their bloody emails they might have a major customer!