All new bikes needs to break in period and tuning to be done. No bikes ever rolled out from LBS in perfect shape.

What?? Albert is not even a staff there?
he has been showing me around for more than an hour and diligently explain every details of each bike to me and my friend came across...and let us test all the brommies they have...

By the way...i have successfully completed my first ride at Taman Pertanian, a really great ride with the D8 i must say~~

But i do notices a few problem..not sure if it is common with new bikes~~hope the experts here can help explain a bit..

1) when lightly pulling the front breaks...there are some sharp metallic friction sound coming from the front...(none for the back...tested multiple times), this sounds goes away when i pull the breaks hard....

2) the gear shifting are great and smooth~~even newbie like me has no problem with it.....BUT....i notice upon shifting to gear 5, 6 ,7 (no chance to try 8th gear yet) the chain (or something from below)  produce a squeaky sound at one point...like every cycle it squeaks once...none of the sound appear on lower gears...

3) i am not sure if this is linked to problem no.2...when pushing the bike slowly consistently...there is also a squeaky sound coming from the front...

Hope you guys could feedback...probably sending it back to Van's for a service/tuning tomorrow evening..

check your headset if it's wobbly .. my best experience with van's .. i bought a d8 .. ride for 1 week .. experience headset prob .. sent to them to check it out .. few days later they called me to inform faulty headset and gave me a brand new bike ... very happy .. then i sold the bike and bought a jetstream lol

check your headset if it's wobbly .. my best experience with van's .. i bought a d8 .. ride for 1 week .. experience headset prob .. sent to them to check it out .. few days later they called me to inform faulty headset and gave me a brand new bike ... very happy .. then i sold the bike and bought a jetstream lol

i bought the D8 with 2,080, no extra charge for assembly, tuning & lubing....comes with a helmet, a saddle back and a set of front and back blinkers..

dear buddies... anyone has experienced with ranger x folding bike or doupleganger folding bike... which one is better for amateur ?

nope. get a montague?

xds or doupleganger which one better ?

thinking of getting a folding bike to commute to my workplace daily (~500m).and possibly for on-off riding to gym,swimming pool,etc etc around 1-2km.

i live on 6th floor...so mtb or single gear bike is out of consideration.

btw 20'' is weird to ride or not?i need to ride fast (busy roads) and there are some bukits.

how about 26'' folding bike?do you guys recommend..i saw some people sell 26'' foldie around 800.

thinking of getting a folding bike to commute to my workplace daily (~500m).and possibly for on-off riding to gym,swimming pool,etc etc around 1-2km.

i live on 6th floor...so mtb or single gear bike is out of consideration.

btw 20'' is weird to ride or not?i need to ride fast (busy roads) and there are some bukits.

how about 26'' folding bike?do you guys recommend..i saw some people sell 26'' foldie around 800.

thinking of getting a folding bike to commute to my workplace daily (~500m).and possibly for on-off riding to gym,swimming pool,etc etc around 1-2km.

i live on 6th floor...so mtb or single gear bike is out of consideration.

btw 20'' is weird to ride or not?i need to ride fast (busy roads) and there are some bukits.

how about 26'' folding bike?do you guys recommend..i saw some people sell 26'' foldie around 800.

exactly like how I was thinking before buying folding bike.

guess what, I decided to buy 20" folding bike and ride it like a boss without worry, turn out people looked and said it was rather attractive rather than weird

Now I even thinking of getting myself 16", so it is going to be much easier when im going to travel by bus or anything