It’s been almost 20 years since I’ve bough my last new bike from a store. I’ve had around 2-3k km/year back in the good old days. A lot has changed since that and I was somehow always missing riding a bike.
10 years ago I’ve scored a mildly used Specialized Rockhopper 26’ with a Rockshox Reba SL and a 19’ size “M” frame – without knowing what does that mean at all :D. I felt cramped on the bike (I’m 183-185cm tall) so I’ve rarely used it.
In the past 2-3 months I was taking my head around getting back into the saddle again, and tried to ride the old speci. I’ve did some service on the bike and started to ride it around. It was still a small bike for me, butt hell yeah I had a lot of fun around some gravel roads and light terrain forests. Cleared my mind after the 9-5 grind. Also I wanted to get back in shape.
During the world bike day sale I’ve pulled a trigger on a Grand Canyon AL6, and I was able to use the referral code as well. So all in all just under 1k EUR I’ve got the bike delivered home, including a bottle cage and a 750ml bottle. – Thanks OP for the referral code 🙂 –
Since that I’ve already had around 150km and I’ve had my first – let say proper – descending on a local light trail. It was hell of a fun! I love it already!
So just wanted to say thank You all for the help, and the whole r/CanyonBikes community for the info’s. It helped a ton to read around!
So here it is, my GC AL6 with a huge smile on my face behind the camera! 😀
by dasmark