Since it was my birthday this week and I already had my present (a holiday from mum and dad) I thought that I’d treat myself to something as a present from me to me so I decided to buy myself a new bike and try to get a bit fitter.
I decided on my budget and after reading loads of reviews and opinions online I headed down to my LBS (local bike shop) Walker’s Cycling to see what they had. I had a good idea of what I was looking for and the guys down at my LBS sorted me right out. They were extremely helpful and I managed to get myself a 2008 Giant XTC 4.5 which was the bike I was looking for. I was also shown a Cube Attention but I wasn’t very keen on the forks as they are not as good as the ones on the Giant.
I’ve only had it for a few days and I haven’t really taken it off road apart from down a few trails at the local country park but I’m really enjoying it so far and I hope to get more into off road riding the fitter I get. Here’s a couple of pictures of it just now, loads more on flickr.
Hopefully a review soon as I couldn’t find many in depth Giant XTC 4.5 reviews out there.
