Me and my Schwinn searcher sport intro

[Arun J]

Greetings Bikers,

Pedalling the hybrid Schwinn search sport for the past 40 days. Just joined this group and found it's hyperactive! Nice!. Thanks to the moderators for signing me in.

My first techno bike with gears, suspensions, alloys,easy dismantling levers and the kinds.  Bought this in RR for ~16k.  Added number Lock and Helmet(rockrider) and thats it till now.

Good feel to pedal around.  Using it for getting to office twice a week (about 7 kms one way - 25 mins) and for my night patrols in my apartment. Helps me reach a place in time.

Maintenance - not much other than cleaning/polishing & tyre pressure checks.  Was advised not to lubricate as it can be done properly during service.  Not sure whether it is specific to this kind.

Will write a detailed review later.

~JAK

[Arun J]

[Ramanan RV]

Hi Arun,

This is the bike I am seriosusly considering to get apart from trek7.1. Eagelry lokking forward to the details report. Was it 16K flat? and freebies thrown in?

Venkat.

[Arun J]

Ramanan,

Though I have driven cycles during schooling and little bit in the college campus, I have little (read no) experience with bikes to write about different attributes and especially the comparison amongst the contenders.  I see some of the postings with such a detail in this group, I am not sure I can write a extensive review of those kinds.  Please feel free to write to me if you have any questions, or wanted to take a test ride.

I have decided on a Hybrid based on my requirement.  Since this is my first bike, I wanted to buy a descent one but not too expensive ones.  There are very few hybrids choices at that level.

The things that attracted me towards this one were.
1. Light weight.  After flipping open the lever of the front wheel, it is so light - it is amazing.
2. Shocks - lockable.  When on straight roads you can lock it and unlock when on terrains. RST - pretty impressive shocks
3. 28 - large rims and 48t cranks.  This is very impressive.  You pedal once and it fires like a bullet on a flat bed.
4. Trek / Merida / Cannondale equivalent were too expensive and did not have all the above attributes together.
5. 3X8 gears helps very granular control in retaining your rpm irrespective of the gradients.  It has C201+Alivio deraillieur which is considered on the better side in the scale of Shimano. Shifters are simply fantastic.
6. Braking - V Brakes - I found this is reasonably good.  Many times it stops abruptly while breaking and I need to get used to it.  It has finer control and replacing the shoes should be easier too looking at the mechanism.

I have only shop tested other bike equivalents and don't have road experience on them.  If your requirement matches mine, then you would deftly love this bike.

There is one side stand(light weight) plus an Allen key :) given as freebie and got a five digits rope lock - together costed 16,450 at RR cycles in Ulsoor.

~JAK

[satish]

Hi

I bought a Scwinn Searcher from RR Cycles about a month back and have
been doing weekends mostly on that - around Sarjapur Road side. Bike
is quite good and VFM for 14.2K. It handles well on roads ( can use
the shox on rougher stretches) but is abysmal on gravel/fine dust.
Seat comfy to bottoms. QR mechanism for front wheel, rear wheel, seat
post is very handy. Searcher has 3 X 7 gearing against 3X 8 of
Searcher Sport; rest is all same practically.

satish

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