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Originally Posted by pecha72
Exactly. There is no ´best´ .....
which one spoke to you? Good luck!
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Yep, thats the long and the short of it.
Try a few bikes. Find people or shops that'll let you try out their bikes. Probably there'll be a lot you can't try out.
So wander slowly around 2nd-hand bike shops. Have a good look at the likely candidates, the ones on your list.
Sit on them, see what they feel like.
Waggle the levers, wriggle about on the seat, wobble the handlebars, look at what you can see from the riding position.
Look them over. Is it 'pretty' or 'ugly'? Which do you like?
Could you spend a lot of time with it?
Try to get a feel for the bikes, and listen to 'what they say to you'.
One day, when you've have a good look round a particular bike, sat on it and imagined you're riding across some wilderness, and listened properly, you'll hear..... "Here I am!"
That's the one!
But only YOU can decide. Don't pay too much attention to what others say, whether they be owners or not.
A bike good for someone 6ft 2in probably isn't much good for someone 5ft 6in.
A bike good for someone who does a lot of competition probably isn't much good for someone who doesn't.
A bike good for someone with with lots of skill and facility to chop it about and modify it probably isn't much good for someone who can't.
And so on and so on.
Whatever bike you end up with, you'll spend a lot of time with it. You'll be sitting on it, riding it, servicing it, mending it, feeding it petrol, feeding it oil.
All those things are much more ENJOYABLE with a bike you LIKE. However well it does other things or ticks your various boxes. Whatever good or bad things other people say about it.
If you're married - well - you'll already know about all this.....
There's also some merit in sticking to models of bikes that have been around for a while, have some history that isn't shot through with bad stories.
Lastly, try to get the word 'best' out of your vocabulary.
Good luck and Have fun!