Originally Posted by Amberina

I’ve had my DS3 about a year now, and have about 5000 km on it. for a commuter and fitness bike it’s great. I had a city bike prior which completely not appropriate for living in North Queensland..I’m not in the outback, but you can see it from here, The DS has made much more confident and I’m riding the tracks that are around. The frame isn’t wide enough to put a proper mountain tire on, and the shock could be beefier as well.

I am 5 ft 1, 48 yrs old lady, the handle bar width is fine for me but a friend of mine finds them too narrow fit local riding conditions. On paper that fork should be more than enough for a rider like me, but off pavement it’s lacking.

The pedals are too small and were swapped out in a week.

The tires were changed within a month to the tubeless bontrager gravel. It’s frustrating as the frame isn’t quite wide enough for a proper mountain bike tire, I’m waiting for another set of maxxis ramblers 700x42 to give a bit more traction on dirt and sand a bd hopefully be better with the unrelenting thorns...

Now that I’m riding on dirt tracks, I really want a dropper post and fork..,

but as a commuter ... amazing ... and when I bought the thing I had no interest in the dirt tracks.

Beware! This bike makes explore!