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These Giant Escape's are entry level bikes Slowbee. I bought one for my mother to ride the 94.7 Cycle Challenge in Jozi 3 years ago. A very comfortable ride and the seating position is perfect for saving the back. Awesome bike for rolling resistance in comparison to a MTB with slicks, but still nothing like a purpose built roadie or CX rig that starts off light weight enough for you to pack horse it without turning it into a tank. This would be my only concern for you going this route. If the route profile had any real climbs in it you would notice all of them on this rig....

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why not look at the On-One Mary bar, lots of sweep, it looks like you will either love it or hate it

http://d2plslj6xljffa.cloudfront.net/imgs/products/oo/400_constH/HBOOMA_P1.jpg

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Martin, would you not be able to get the same with bars ends (dare I say riser bar ends?) and tt type bars attached to a flat bar ?

 

Why do you need riser bars?

 

Just flip the stem :thumbup:

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I'm on on one fleegles on my cotic x. Also the cotics have pannier bosses and the x can take discs and cantis

 

I'd like a pic of this.....

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Nerd can you post images pls ?

 

What kind of wheels do you have ?

 

Spoke to the bike shop this morning... they suggested a niner frame with a road wheelset built onto mtn bike wheels. My only concern here is that there is no space for a bag on the front handlebars. Remember wanting to do the audax series and also LEL and pbp, hopefully.

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I had the fleegles on but now im running the midges.. They are also gold nogal!

 

I like the midges, my mate has them on a steel monstercross 29er, 1x10 sram, avid discs, carbon fork, MTB wheels.

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