Review of £500 hybrids Dawes Sonoran and VSF T50s
Posted: 8 Jan 2018, 12:48pm
Hi All
After my last review (of the Ridgeback Expedition) generated 13 pages of discussion I thought it time to point to another. This time it's two reviews - both reviews being of Hybrids around £500. These are what I consider to be the minimum standard for a serious touring bike. That's an important market point because as well as making a decent first tourer they are cheap enough to make a winter hack for someone with better bikes, or more importantly make a suitable bike for someone wanting to cycle in foreign lands but doesn't want to risk transporting their precious bike. As always they are based on not only my (opinionated) opinions, but also those of our customers and their performance is judged after a hard year of hire use rather than a ride round the block... Hope you enjoy them and I'll keep an eye on the thread so I can answer any questions.
The first is of the German made VSF T-50s hybrid - http://www.bretonbikes.com/homepage/cyc ... e-vsf-t50s
The second is the Dawes Sonoran Trekking Hybrid - http://www.bretonbikes.com/homepage/cyc ... get-tourer
After my last review (of the Ridgeback Expedition) generated 13 pages of discussion I thought it time to point to another. This time it's two reviews - both reviews being of Hybrids around £500. These are what I consider to be the minimum standard for a serious touring bike. That's an important market point because as well as making a decent first tourer they are cheap enough to make a winter hack for someone with better bikes, or more importantly make a suitable bike for someone wanting to cycle in foreign lands but doesn't want to risk transporting their precious bike. As always they are based on not only my (opinionated) opinions, but also those of our customers and their performance is judged after a hard year of hire use rather than a ride round the block... Hope you enjoy them and I'll keep an eye on the thread so I can answer any questions.
The first is of the German made VSF T-50s hybrid - http://www.bretonbikes.com/homepage/cyc ... e-vsf-t50s
The second is the Dawes Sonoran Trekking Hybrid - http://www.bretonbikes.com/homepage/cyc ... get-tourer