About three years ago I bought kick ass road bike to commute to work. I totally love it, it's fast, light, looks awesome
However last February I came off in a fairly spectacular fashion at about 35mph.
A year later and some £2000 worth of private neurologist consulting and MRI scans it would appear that all the headaches, weird tingling in my face, neck pain is down to tht fact that in the crash I gave myself a pretty spectacular whiplash injury that buggered 2 discs in my cerviacal spine and as a consequence my vertebrae in that region are locked in a straight line instead of a nice steady curve.
I have to see a sports physio who specialises in spinal injury but everyone I've spoken to so far says that the road bike will have to go, because the riding position is going to be exacerbating my neck badly.
I can't use my moutain bike for the commute as its like driving a tractor to work and the gearing is all wrong.
So I'm looking at a hybrid, the half mountain bike/half road bike thing that I see lots of old men using at the moment. In fairness some of them seem well sorted bits of kit and are almost as quick as my road bike.
Does anyone here have a hybrid, what are your thoughts? Did you move from a road to a hybrid? And what was the transition like?
And is there a hybrid that could be converted to something more off road if I wanted to take the kids to the woods for some trails work?
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O reckon you'd be able to knock at least 12 cyclists off their bikes with that.
OAP rock n' roll.
http://m.evanscycles.com/products/trek/84-ds-2015-hybrid-bike-ec072171
There seem to be hybrids that are a little more mtb than road bike
Kona do some fantastic light hybrids, Road gearing, flat bars and road wheels,
I'm currently riding a single speed, that's erm interesting!
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