Re: I'm in love....

rdclark said:

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Giant Windmark - 2998 rmb. As someone on here already griped when I
posted a link to the Giant China website they don't say anything about
what kind of metal the frame is other than CR-MO steel. Practically
everything on it is Shimano SORA. Quick release wheels are also
Shimano. Two front gears, seven back gears.

We're happy for you. There's nothing like a new bike. It's hard to
comment on the bike itself since there's no English-language info on
it. I had, however, been under the impression that Sora was an 8-speed
group.

I _swear_ it had seven when I wrote that message. It now has eight. I
blame the fairies.

Life only needs six numbers - zero, one, two, many, many lots, infinity

My bike has many lots of gears. Ok?

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I hope the gearing is low enough for those climbs you were talking
about the other day. If you had a MTB or hybrid before, the new bike is
likely not to have anything approaching the low gears you're used to.

The other bike was also a road bike.

If the fairies leave things the way they currently are then this bike
has two more back gears and weighs 14 pounds less than the last one.

The hills in Haikou city are pretty tame. A few long low grade ones.
A few very short very high grade ones.

Most of my riding is gently rolling coastal. I'm only likely to
encounter hills and mountains when I go on long inland rides. Hainan
was volcanic and the interior mountains are MOUNTAINS.

-M