My New Obsession

It all started during the month of April 2012, when I went for my first bike ride to Muninagara Dam with a few friends of mine. I was really astonished and happy to see that even I could ride that long (not so long 80KMS in 8 hrs though) and started gettting a wish/feeling that even I should buy a new bike for myself.  Started researching slowly about a lot of bikes, and the wish has turned into an obsession by which I made up my mind to buy a new one. With a lot of research about various types of bikes and after a profound thinking, I was able to narrow down that I should buy a hybrid bike(the one which can be used for both daily commuting and short tours) as that would serve my purpose. Yet, this is not the major deciding factor. The primary concern being the budget, I decided not to spend more than 10K for a bike at this point of time. I was little skeptical that this if this obsession fades off in a while, then my investment would go dead!!!

Being conscious about the decision, checked out a few stores in bangalore about the Schwinn,the Canondale, the Hercules, the Montra bikes and all were really way high out of my budget. Then I was introduced to the Decathlon store by my roomie. Visited their store near Sarjapur road in Bangalore. All I could find there was the MTB series bikes with not so sleek tyres which was extremely opposite to what I was having in my mind. I was in a mindset to get one with sleek tyres as that would easen the ride[that’s what I read from many blogs n forums]. Took a test ride of variety of cycles they had inside their store itself and found the b'twin Rockrider 5.0 to be good and a perfect value for money bike. The bike comes with a price tag of Rs.8999/- and all accessories extra.

Rear Gears

Rear Wheel

B'twin RockRider 5.0

After four months of researches and readings, finally I have zeroed in on b'twin RockRider 5.0 to be the one which could suit my needs-both from the ride and the budgetting perspective- and bought it :) :). Now its time for me start rolling the wheels as much as I could and make the best use of it. Hoping to go on for many rides in and around bangalore to exploit the fullest benefits of cycling.