I have a couple of other bikes including a very flash MTB but when I tootle around town on the Galaxy I've actually had people admiring the bike (to be fair, it's the one with the two-tone, green / blue paint job) . They seem oblivious to the tricked up MTB so who knows? Maybe they'll become fashionable once more...
BTW, fully loaded up and going down Winnats Pass? A serious turn of frightening speed! :-)
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The bae model galaxy is still 531. The SG and UG are 853 compacts. IMO, they're not real (old school) galaxies. I know they're technically
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one of the galaxy range as the standard 531 full size.
A marketing error IMO. The Galaxy is not meant to be a bike for fashion victims. It sells on its reputation as a classic British tourer - a traditional and reliable load carrier that gives a superb ride but can produce a turn of speed when urged.
I have a couple of other bikes including a very flash MTB but when I tootle around town on the Galaxy I've actually had people admiring the bike (to be fair, it's the one with the two-tone, green / blue paint job) . They seem oblivious to the tricked up MTB so who knows? Maybe they'll become fashionable once more...
Your Galaxy must be the same year as mine. The only comments I get are from chaps of a certain age who recognise it as a proper bike, and then recount tales of their own Dawes bikes from decades ago.
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The only comments I get are from chaps of a certain age who recognise it as a proper bike, and then recount tales of their own Dawes bikes from decades ago.
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The only comments I get are from chaps of a certain age who recognise it as a proper bike, and then recount tales of their own Dawes bikes from decades ago.
Oi! I resemble that remark!
Hmm. Inadvertant offence. I think that they refer to those bikes with the saddles about a foot from the ground, ridden by the flappy-clothed, baseball cap-wearing set.
I have a couple of other bikes including a very flash MTB but when I tootle around town on the Galaxy I've actually had people admiring the bike (to be fair, it's the one with the two-tone, green / blue paint job) . They seem oblivious to the tricked up MTB so who knows? Maybe they'll become fashionable once more...
But isn't the Dawes Sardar STI now considered to be a modern- day replacement for the Galaxy. I would welcome advice/opinion, especially from anyone who has seen/ridden one.
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But isn't the Dawes Sardar STI now considered to be a modern- day replacement for the Galaxy. I would welcome advice/opinion, especially from anyone who has seen/ridden one.
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Try emailing Jer Boon (urc thread titled jer boon) - that chap who followed Bristol City for a season by bike, that's what he rode.
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fair, it's the one with the two-tone, green / blue paint job) . They
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oblivious to the tricked up MTB so who knows? Maybe they'll become fashionable once more...
But isn't the Dawes Sardar STI now considered to be a modern- day replacement for the Galaxy. I would welcome advice/opinion, especially from anyone who has seen/ridden one.
Though since it has a compact frame where the Galaxy doesn't that isn't a like for like comparison. Compact frames may fit a wider variety of rider sizes and are effectively bigger than a nominal traditional frame size suggests. How much effectively bigger I'm not sure, you'd need to try one.
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