Originally Posted by
JonBailey
Well, my comfy seat and my apehanger do actually help me feel much better when I ride. The nerve endings in my body are a witness to that firsthand. I am lucky that things like this can help actually ME. I don't know if they can help other people. I don't feel like dumping any more money into a stupid bicycle. I am not going to a fitting specialist and pay $150 just for a few measurements. The devil with that. I can get by just fine with this Discover I customized. I might someday splurge for a Cannondale (model under $1,000) so outfitted.
I can't use a banana seat because I have a rear carrier I actually use sometimes. I like my spring seat anyway. Believe me when I say I like it, please. I don't need anybody's help here anyway. The story is I am not rich and have only so much money to dump into a bike. I don't want to make bicycles a snob thing. I would rather be snobbish with vehicles that have engines. I would rather be snobbish with a nice engraved Italian shotgun for shooting fowl.
My Discover does have a spring telescoping seatpost, a spring telescoping front fork and a light aluminum frame and wheels all stock.
The main point of my thread was: why can't I buy a bicycle like the one I customized but be stock like this out of the box? Any idiot can spend extra money to bolt on extra parts aftermarket.
Why can't you buy a bicycle such as you want 'out of the box'? Because there is no market for such a thing sufficent to warrant the production of such a thing. Simple as that. Too bad, so sad.
You have 'special needs', apparently, needs that are not shared by the vast majority of the cycling populace. So you will simply have to make do, as you apparently have done. As you say above, any 'idiot' can switch out handlebars and saddle to suit their 'special needs'.