Giant's Cypress Bicycle - 2015 Hybrid Bike Check - BikemanforU
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BikemanforU's favorite entry level bicycle for men and women in 2015 is Giant USA's 21-speed Cypress hybrid. Typically, hybrid bikes fall into the "lifestyle" or comfort style of riding - fast enough to be fun but easy on the body, too. Like other hybrids, the Cypress combines hill-climbing gears of a mountain bike, the speed and nimbless of a road bike, and a dash of upright cruiser styling. One of the world's largest bicycle manufacturers, Giant promises a smooth, stable ride with the Cypress. We think this promise is fulfilled in 2015. The Cypress hybrid, with Allux aluminum frame and chromoly fork, is thoughtfully equipped with respected quality components like Shimano derailleurs and SRAM MRX-Grip Twist shifters, and will do you proud on any charity ride in the Hamptons. The Cypress comes in the Cypress W for women under Giant's LIV branding (because men "liv" for the gals, right?) A shock-absorbing suspension seat post and relaxed frame geometry, 700x38 tires that cushion the bumps and hill-climbing gears that get you up just about any incline, are all built-in features designed to entice you into the saddle. If you've never ridden a bike, or it's been a couple of lifetimes since you have, give the Cypress a look and a try. Drive train specs include SR Suntour XCC, 28/38/48 crankset and Shimano TZ31 14x34, 7-speed mega-range freewheel, Watch more bike checks from YouTube's award-winning guru of bicycle repair and maintenance. http://www.youtube.com/bikemanforu Subscribing's free for new videos every week. Get free shipping on bike parts, tires, tools, and cycle accessories http://www.bikemanforu.com Need some tech answers? Get into the action with the BikemanforU community http://www.forums.bikemanforu.com For real-time interaction, tune in Saturday mornings at 10am eastern for the BikemanforU LIVE Show - where's you're the star. http://www.youtube.com/bikemanforu @bikemanforu #bikemanforu Twitter, facebook, Instagram, and google+.
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Hybrids are very nice bicycles and very affordable i shave feel in love with hybrids
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Very informative, thank you.
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I love my Cypress DX.... what would be a upgrade from that model, with the same hybrid feel? Thanks for the videos they're great
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I just got one. It's a lot of bike for the money. I paid 315.00 for it. I'm very happy with it.
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I have this model. I ride on quality.
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So, a granny bike?
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Bought a Cypress DX in 2005 for $350. Very rugged and good quality. Just today I replaced the chain and rear tire, cassette. Replaced the rear tire before.. Other than that, that's it. Highly recommend.
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Great review and informative - highly appreciated!
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Another nice video chief
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About how much $$ a bike like this would retail for??.......
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I like they skipped a heavy suspension fork.
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The style of bicycle which today has the name "hybrid" is what would have been the equivalent to a normal adult-type bicycle before about 1970, and nothing hybrid about it. Of course, few adults in the USA, other than mavericks and non-comformists, or perhaps the "retarded," would have been caught dead riding a bicycle then. (European adults, unbeknownst to Americans, had never abandoned bicycles.) Bicycles were toys at most appropriate for under-13 children to play with. Children's bikes had the 2 3/8 inch (?) tires and wheels the '50's bikes are noted for, so they could slam their bikes into curbs to get up them without taco-ing the wheel. All that you got was the dreaded "rub," with the wheel bent so it rubbed the fender. Then you bent the fender, and cocked the mounting of the wheel, to get rid of the rub, or accepted a minimum rub as the best achievable.
I was taught how to blast into and get up bad curbs by a knowlegeable friend. Until then I had had only the experience of being stopped dead when running into a rectilinear curb. The trick was to get up to the maximum speed you could manage, so the momentum still carried you over the curb, while steering exactly straight, holding onto the handbars with all your might, and pulling up at the right instant, and never let your butt be anywhere near the saddle. I never again ran into a curb I couldn't get up, at least on the second try. A failed first try would knock you right over, however.
One day at our grade school bike rack, a glamorous beauty of an adult-style bicycle showed up, with the spindley 1 3/8 inch tires, owned by a girl yet. As we all took off on our bikes, hopping the curb down to the street, the sissy girl got off, incredibly, to walk her bike over the curb, to the laughs and heckels of us all. Her meek response was that her father said it was a better bike, so she should carefully walk her bike over curbs; to which we had to laugh hollowly, because she was obviously right. -
I think it is really dated the way bicycle manufacturers sell bicycles with frames for men and frames for women.
It would be better if they sold them simply as step-through and non-step-through. I think they should do all the sizes in each design.
There are many men who would appreciate a step-through bicycles and who are six foot tall or even taller. And there are many women who, I bet, do not particularly want a step-through frame. -
My kinda bike right there.
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You've got awesome presence Bikeman. Great delivery.
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love those giant bikes they last FOREVER!!!!! I ride around on my 03 Iguana that my uncle gave me and she still goes. I've only had to replace some worn parts and upgrade the brakes but everything else is still original. It's been through some aggressive trails and no cracks or anything on the frame whatsoever!! The guys over at Giant know how to make 'em cheap and high quality to last...kudos to them
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bike man is looking good n healthy in this vid. keep it up.
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Great bike check!
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Fairly nice looking bike. Kinda retro. It's hard to really judge while it's got that big saddle on there; like judging a girl's looks while she's wearing a fake moustache.
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Bikeman, the bikes in your video don't have front susension and Giant's website and they show the Cypress DX with a suspension fork. Is your a different model of Cypress?
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