I took my Rossano to the service a week ago on Friday and received the estimate for the repair cost: nearly 400€. I knew that there were many other things that should have been also fixed. Some of them I planned to do immediately myself and some things were not acute but should be done some day. Anyway, at this point (after my wife’s strong recommendation) I decided to order a new bike instead of fixing the old one.
I bought the Rossano in April 2018, so it became almost four years old. GPS-tracking reveals that I drove roughly 15.181 km with it. Well, during the heavy snowfalls in 2021, I had to drag the bike sometimes.
The new bike I basically bought over phone from Espoontorin Pyörä, where I took the old one for service. The Active Wanted Gravel 311 Apex has 1 x 11 gears, which is slightly more than I had on the previous one, and disc breaks. Yeah, I’m not that fond of the front derailleur as it does not really have any advantages for me. Probably it works better for the Spandex-guys 😉 The price for this one was 1499€, so not so cheap, but definitely not too expensive.
I bought also studded tyres with their own rims so that it is easy to change them when the weather changes. This was not a cheap solution (650€) but I’m sure that I save now both time and nerves when I have to change them. Previously I had only front tyre with studs and that was pretty ok, but I thought that having both might be a safer choice in the long run.
