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Another Verve vs FX thread
Wife and I are considering new bikes for family riding. This includes rising with trailers and Tagalongs.
We own MTB and Road bikes. We want bikes that are good for tooling around town and rail trails with kids (two with one on the way). we don’t want to mod existing bikes, particularly MTBs. I could see us selling our road bikes, we’re not that hardcore of riders, though I can see my wife wanting to retain a bike that would let her be reasonably fast/efficient in triathalons if/when she gets back into it.
We do a lot of day and road tripping, so light, compact bikes we can carry with us (trailer hitch bike rack) are desirable.
We have more or less reduced to verve and fx. I’d have considered Janis sequel and coda if I could have found some anywhere.
Both of the seating positions are comfortable, fx fit and felt fine. Verve felt a bit more numb and heavier, fx lighter and more agile. I think the fx would do well with slightly larger tires, the verve with smaller/lighter.
In the end we’re leaning towards verve because we have other bikes and it seems the most oriented towards fun use. That said, I don’t want to be limited if we want to do faster or more fitness oriented riding.
Both are the 3 level.
We’re late 30s/very early 40s, no health or mobility issues.
What would you buy?
We own MTB and Road bikes. We want bikes that are good for tooling around town and rail trails with kids (two with one on the way). we don’t want to mod existing bikes, particularly MTBs. I could see us selling our road bikes, we’re not that hardcore of riders, though I can see my wife wanting to retain a bike that would let her be reasonably fast/efficient in triathalons if/when she gets back into it.
We do a lot of day and road tripping, so light, compact bikes we can carry with us (trailer hitch bike rack) are desirable.
We have more or less reduced to verve and fx. I’d have considered Janis sequel and coda if I could have found some anywhere.
Both of the seating positions are comfortable, fx fit and felt fine. Verve felt a bit more numb and heavier, fx lighter and more agile. I think the fx would do well with slightly larger tires, the verve with smaller/lighter.
In the end we’re leaning towards verve because we have other bikes and it seems the most oriented towards fun use. That said, I don’t want to be limited if we want to do faster or more fitness oriented riding.
Both are the 3 level.
We’re late 30s/very early 40s, no health or mobility issues.
What would you buy?
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Never rode a Verve so am not familiar with that line of bikes. But I'm on my second FX (recently bought an FX5 Sport which replaced my 2012 7.5FX) and I love it. I ride for fitness so no ride is more than an hour or so which suits me fine. I like to ride fast and the FX frame is basically a road frame with upright handlebars. I changed out the stock 700Cx32 tires and installed larger 700Cx35 tires and they are amazing. Very smooth ride and I feel like I can go faster because of it. I also ride on light gravel paths but am not interested in mountain biking at all as 90% of my riding is on tarmac. I'd say if your style of riding is more casual and slow, go with the Verve. If you're more in to fitness and riding faster, go with the FX. That's about all I can think of at the moment.
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Never rode a Verve so am not familiar with that line of bikes. But I'm on my second FX (recently bought an FX5 Sport which replaced my 2012 7.5FX) and I love it. I ride for fitness so no ride is more than an hour or so which suits me fine. I like to ride fast and the FX frame is basically a road frame with upright handlebars. I changed out the stock 700Cx32 tires and installed larger 700Cx35 tires and they are amazing. Very smooth ride and I feel like I can go faster because of it. I also ride on light gravel paths but am not interested in mountain biking at all as 90% of my riding is on tarmac. I'd say if your style of riding is more casual and slow, go with the Verve. If you're more in to fitness and riding faster, go with the FX. That's about all I can think of at the moment.
If/when we decide to get into fitness riding, we either sell/mod/keep to collect dust and buy fx type bikes for doing that.
It seems like you really like the wider tires. Did it make your fix feel more stable, soak up more road irregularities, both, something else?
Thanks!
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Thanks! I’m sort of thinking that since the verve is different enough from our road bikes (which haven’t been used much in many years) and MTBs (which get lots of use), that it’s the way to go... for now.
If/when we decide to get into fitness riding, we either sell/mod/keep to collect dust and buy fx type bikes for doing that.
It seems like you really like the wider tires. Did it make your fix feel more stable, soak up more road irregularities, both, something else?
Thanks!
If/when we decide to get into fitness riding, we either sell/mod/keep to collect dust and buy fx type bikes for doing that.
It seems like you really like the wider tires. Did it make your fix feel more stable, soak up more road irregularities, both, something else?
Thanks!
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All that said, I really do like the wider tires for their comfort. I'm not a competitive cyclist. I'm not out for PRs or KOMs or anything like that. I do it for the enjoyment and the difference between 30 psi and 60 psi makes much more of an impact (pardon the pun) on my comfort (in a positive way) than it takes away in efficiency or watts consumed.
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I test rode a Verve when we were looking for a new bike for my wife. Neither of us liked the almost vertical riding position the Verve had, so she decided she would rather go with the FX.
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We ended up with two verve bikes. I figure if we decide we want some fitness bikes, we can figure it out down the line. For now, we have MTBs that will stay MTBs, and we have these two which are comfortable and work great.
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