After a long time i want to come back to riding bikes. 38 years old, close to 2 meter high and 100kg heavy (want to stay that heavy :D).
- The type of riding will you be doing: Road and forest path (but dont like gravelbikes)
- Where you will be riding: easy forest paths/roads around my home, sometimes forest paths up a hill (but hills are 2 hours away with a car from my home)
- Your budget (with included currency): not fix. but around 1.500€
- What you like/didn't like about your current bike: Last bike was a gravel bike and was okay. my wife wants to start riding aswell so a gravelbike is out of the question (shes learing riding a bike just now and starting with a drop bar would be too much for the beginning)
- Your experience level and future goals: my life-km are around 30.000km but out of the loop the last 10 years. just want to stay fit. no races or stuff planned.
Currently im looking at:
Specialized Chisel Comp 2021
https://www.specialized.com/de/de/chisel-comp/p/184105?color=291516-184105
Trek Procaliber 9.6 2020
They are both used but for trying to get back it should be enough. i'm kinda in love with both of them but would lean towards the chisel due to the aluminium frame. the chisel would be 300€ cheaper.
after googling a ton a lot of people are saying the chisel is rather flexy and not good for people heavier than 80kg.
any advice if the chisel is really that soft and what would you pick?
by floatwork
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I have no experience with the pro caliber, but looking at it compared to the chisel, it has a few nicer components but nothing crazy that I can see other than being carbon. I’m 110kg and ride a 2020 Chisel comp and ride similar stuff to you as well as beginner blues and greens. Other than the terrible SX groupset which thankfully your 2021 doesn’t suffer from I have zero complaints, the bike is perfect for me and my mild riding (I’m in a region with 0 downhill stuff or anything gnarly) and absolutely isn’t “flexy”. Maybe if I was bombing down hills at a bike park, but for you just riding easy gravel/forest/dirt/fireroads it will have no issues. I’m bias as I own one, but for your riding I’d just buy the chisel and use the saved money for gear. Helmet first and foremost-I like smith, padded underwear, and some riding shoes. I’ve never ridden a carbon bike, but already currently lightening up my chisel with a full XT group set and some carbon pieces. I’d check both out test ride them and see which feels better. The weights online are somehow the same, but the chisel is a very light aluminum hardtail.