Anyone own new Jamis bike ? Any thoughts?
05-01-21, 08:16 PM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Anyone own new Jamis bike ? Any thoughts?
I liked new Jamis bike are they still Reynolds steel ?anyone own one ? Any thoughts I like the upright comfy positions on their website few models
05-01-21, 08:56 PM
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: upstate NY
Posts: 161
Bikes: Jamis renegade, surly big dummy, giant talon 29er
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 62 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 42 Times
in
22 Posts
I own a 2019 renegade expat, it's made of Reynolds steel. I love the bike, no real complaints other than I should have bought the more expensive model. I ended up putting new bars, crankset and cassette on it to dial in what I wanted.
05-02-21, 10:48 AM
#5
Junior Member
I've got a 2019 Jamis Sequel with 520 Reynolds. Great bike! The newer ones have two versions I believe and the lower model is 4130.
Likes For hicks:
05-03-21, 05:43 AM
#6
Senior Member
I bought a 2019 Jamis Renegade Escapade from a local dealer who was having an end of year sale and passing on Jamis end of year dealer discounts. I wanted to replace a 25 year old hybrid and a Trek 520 and have one bike for unpaved riding (not mountain biking), riding on trails/paths with my wife and the light style of touring I do these days.
I really like the bike and the 1x SRAM drive train, but I guess to lower the weight of a steel bike, it came with a number of carbon components. The carbon fork and cranks made sense, but the seat post was also carbon - and fractured after 15 months and only about 1,500 miles on it. The dealer checked what I had done and I had not over-torqued the tube clamp or over extended the seatpost - just a component failure. Jamis replaced as a free warranty repair (technically, only a 1 year warranty) but I chose a metal seatpost after that.
I have a carbon road bike with a carbon seat post and have 12K miles on it with no problem. The seat post clamp on the Escapad seems a bit underdesigned to me and maybe it was overtorqued during initially assembly, who knows.
Jamis does not sell that model anymore, I think the S2 took its place - they switched to the Shimano GRX groupset, but looks like same carbon seat post. Don't know if the clamp has been improved.
I really like the bike and the 1x SRAM drive train, but I guess to lower the weight of a steel bike, it came with a number of carbon components. The carbon fork and cranks made sense, but the seat post was also carbon - and fractured after 15 months and only about 1,500 miles on it. The dealer checked what I had done and I had not over-torqued the tube clamp or over extended the seatpost - just a component failure. Jamis replaced as a free warranty repair (technically, only a 1 year warranty) but I chose a metal seatpost after that.
I have a carbon road bike with a carbon seat post and have 12K miles on it with no problem. The seat post clamp on the Escapad seems a bit underdesigned to me and maybe it was overtorqued during initially assembly, who knows.
Jamis does not sell that model anymore, I think the S2 took its place - they switched to the Shimano GRX groupset, but looks like same carbon seat post. Don't know if the clamp has been improved.
05-03-21, 10:31 AM
#7
Sunshine
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Des Moines, IA
Posts: 16,652
Bikes: '18 class built steel roadbike, '19 Fairlight Secan, '88 Schwinn Premis , Black Mountain Cycles Monstercross V4, '89 Novara Trionfo
Mentioned: 123 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 11011 Post(s)
Liked 7,541 Times
in
4,216 Posts
Call me crazy.
05-03-21, 04:21 PM
#8
Junior Member
The lower model Jamis Sequel 4130 is butted! All good. Just Altus instead of Deore.
05-04-21, 10:53 PM
#9
Clark W. Griswold
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: ,location, location
Posts: 13,645
Bikes: Foundry Chilkoot Ti W/Ultegra Di2, Salsa Timberjack Ti, Cinelli Mash Work RandoCross Fun Time Machine, 1x9 XT Parts Hybrid, Co-Motion Cascadia, Specialized Langster, Phil Wood Apple VeloXS Frame (w/DA 7400), R+M Supercharger2 Rohloff, Habanero Ti 26
Mentioned: 55 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4407 Post(s)
Liked 4,049 Times
in
2,700 Posts
Jamis steel bikes are decent I have sold them for years and do recommend them. Typically they are using mostly 520 and 631 Reynolds but they have used 853 in the past. I know several people who I have worked with who own them and love them a bunch and have had plenty of satisfied customers on their steel Jami (or Jamisisisis)
Gotta give them respect for keeping steel going in a production bike like that.
Gotta give them respect for keeping steel going in a production bike like that.
Likes For veganbikes:
