Sooo, it's absolutely tipical: i did make a post about the rebirth of this blog, but after that: i didn't give a shite again for a year and a half.
Let me try this thing one more time:the news from september coming right up is a small kind of river novel:
Firstly: We got those bikes we're talking about for a while to all people around available: only a day between the two parcel, the landed in Budapest safe and sound. Mine got a nice bit of a tour across Europe, about 2500 miles from Liverpool to Germany, after for a short appereance in Denmark (???) just to get back again to the exact same warehouse in Germany. After kicked over to Austria, and in the end, to Hungary. All that within 8 working days.
For those, who wondering: these are two Viking bikes from the UK. You may wonder, why on earth we ordered them from a store 1300 miles from our home...The reason is prosaic as it looks: half the price compared to one brand new road bike available in Hungary.
But the road not as smooth as it looks like. There are some problems, sequentially: with the front and rear derailleur - fortunately not in one bike - there was a slightly crooked front rim, and cogset, and alltogether a fucked up threaded rear hub. Also, there's a slight problem with the same model's chainset as well, which appears to be a bloody basic model - suggested to change it to something more durable, but reasonably priced model - maybe some kind of a Shimano Tiagra or Sora model.
Essentially we've to change a half wheel in 'Lilla' (the given name of the girl's model - it's a Viking Girondelle btw); mainly because it doesn't make sense to change some basically outdated part to the same outdated part - so the new ought to be new in every way. So it would be a casette freehub for the rear wheel or nothing at all.
Thats gonna be roughly another 100 quid for Lilla to be rideable safely, which is maybe not that huge pile of money, but way enough to spend to a brand-new bike - which supposed to be able to ride out from it's own box...Damn.
The other one (this was the travelling kiddo across Europe) is going allright for now, needed only a slight adjusting on the derailleurs, which is totally basic for a bike after unboxing.
Summaraly we got two really good bikes build on lightweight aluminium frames what could be a decent starting point to built an awesome machine eventually. Until then, they roll way better than the old CzechSlovak frames did, lighter than those were, and holds more opportunity than those did. Last but not least, they look awesome - there's paint everywhere it's supposed to; with a nice polished finish (that wasn't a sure thing for the oldies)
Alltogether we're proud owners of two Vikings, that we have faith in to be a good partner for at least the next decade. For someone, who just got into road biking, these are a reasonable choice - i do not believe that it's wise to start out with a £1000 racemachine for the first bike.
Thats for now, i donwanna overdo this blogging thing already.
But one more thing: there'll be posts probably in english, and sometimes in hungarian as well. Sorry for that in advance.:)
d
Let me try this thing one more time:the news from september coming right up is a small kind of river novel:
Firstly: We got those bikes we're talking about for a while to all people around available: only a day between the two parcel, the landed in Budapest safe and sound. Mine got a nice bit of a tour across Europe, about 2500 miles from Liverpool to Germany, after for a short appereance in Denmark (???) just to get back again to the exact same warehouse in Germany. After kicked over to Austria, and in the end, to Hungary. All that within 8 working days.
For those, who wondering: these are two Viking bikes from the UK. You may wonder, why on earth we ordered them from a store 1300 miles from our home...The reason is prosaic as it looks: half the price compared to one brand new road bike available in Hungary.
But the road not as smooth as it looks like. There are some problems, sequentially: with the front and rear derailleur - fortunately not in one bike - there was a slightly crooked front rim, and cogset, and alltogether a fucked up threaded rear hub. Also, there's a slight problem with the same model's chainset as well, which appears to be a bloody basic model - suggested to change it to something more durable, but reasonably priced model - maybe some kind of a Shimano Tiagra or Sora model.Essentially we've to change a half wheel in 'Lilla' (the given name of the girl's model - it's a Viking Girondelle btw); mainly because it doesn't make sense to change some basically outdated part to the same outdated part - so the new ought to be new in every way. So it would be a casette freehub for the rear wheel or nothing at all.
Thats gonna be roughly another 100 quid for Lilla to be rideable safely, which is maybe not that huge pile of money, but way enough to spend to a brand-new bike - which supposed to be able to ride out from it's own box...Damn.
The other one (this was the travelling kiddo across Europe) is going allright for now, needed only a slight adjusting on the derailleurs, which is totally basic for a bike after unboxing.
Summaraly we got two really good bikes build on lightweight aluminium frames what could be a decent starting point to built an awesome machine eventually. Until then, they roll way better than the old CzechSlovak frames did, lighter than those were, and holds more opportunity than those did. Last but not least, they look awesome - there's paint everywhere it's supposed to; with a nice polished finish (that wasn't a sure thing for the oldies)
Alltogether we're proud owners of two Vikings, that we have faith in to be a good partner for at least the next decade. For someone, who just got into road biking, these are a reasonable choice - i do not believe that it's wise to start out with a £1000 racemachine for the first bike.
Thats for now, i donwanna overdo this blogging thing already.
But one more thing: there'll be posts probably in english, and sometimes in hungarian as well. Sorry for that in advance.:)
d
