One the most important contact point on a bike the seat, saddle, most of your weight a lot of your butt and junk perched on piece of plastic, cloth, and metal. With a proper bike seat that suits your riding you can go far without the discomfort.
Since the bike came with OE seat the first order of business adjustment, and saddle time to feel for the seat. For my huge butt and privates the saddle felt awful, it was comfortable for a couple of meters, longer the pain was unbearable. Luckily I have a used saddle installed on project beater. It has a longer nose, had minimal padding around the seat bones, a profile for relaxed MTB riding position. Installed the seat on my previous bike (El camino) and it was torture but on the folding bike it felt right.
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| DDK bike seat |
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| Top peak saddle bag |
Bike comes with one bottle cage mount on the top tube, installed water cage along with hand pump holder. Top peak seat bag (review soon) keeps all the essential stuff like a pair of birzman tire levers, birzman multi tool, patch kit and two 20 inch tubes.
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| Bottle cage, M.O.B hand pump |
The bike came with bunch of reflectors a red one for the rear, white for the front, four rectangle ones for tire spokes. Cateye rapid 3 blinker (review soon) replaces the red one out back while the white along with the Energizer LED light (preview here) shares the front.
All the reflectors might look "Baduy" or newbie-ish to some but who cares...the hamster needs to be seen day and night. Metro Manila one of the worse road NOT to be seen.
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| Energizer LED bike light, Cateye micro wireless |
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| Right smack in the face |
Removed the included rear rack figured that I can always install it when needed. Since the rack comes with its own braze-on removal was simple, doing so the bike lost 3 pounds.
Installed Cateye mini wireless cyclo computer for monitoring speed.
Both of the fenders stays crap, wet patches, and varying weather always looms.
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| Giant OE rack |
Ernest Hamster
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