Whether you're commuting to work, touring the town, or just out for some exercise, you'll do it in style on a Dekra Urban Voyager men's comfort bike. Made especially for suburban and city riding, the Dekra Urban Voyager combines great design with outstanding safety and comfort features. The bike is distinguished by such details as a lightweight aluminum alloy frame, a seven-speed Shimano Revoshifter, a suede-covered comfort saddle, and even a rear alloy rack complete with a Dekra signature carrying bag. It's perfect for a quick jaunt to the store, a ride with the kids, or a weekend road trip.
Dekra D-Drive Chain-Free Technology
The Urban Voyager employs a D-Drive chainless operating system that's designed to provide you with a quiet, efficient ride. Using a Shimano seven-speed Nexus gear hub and Revoshift system, the D-Drive is contained within a sealed rank, shaft rod, and gear housing. What does this mean to the rider? It means you'll never have to deal with stained clothing or greasy hands because of a chain.
Designed for Your Safety
Riding in the city and suburbs can be challenging. Navigating auto traffic, bumpy roads, pedestrians, and anything else that comes along is just part of the ride. The Dekra Urban Voyager overcomes these challenges by offering a variety of important safety features, including RST Capa T8 suspension forks, front and rear alloy V-brakes, double-wall alloy wheel rims, a front headlight, and front and rear reflectors. When it comes to your riding safety, the Dekra Urban Voyager is totally first-class.
Available in mint green metallic paint with brushed aluminum and black accents, the Dekra Urban Voyager is, top to bottom, a classic comfort bike--from its thickly padded seat down to its wide tires. Other details include an integrated speedometer, water bottle mounts, and 26-by-1.75-inch city tread tires.
The Right Price
A bike's price boils down to three essentials: frame materials, bike weight, and component quality and durability.
I read everything I could find about this bike before I purchased it. As is the general case, you need to be careful about what people say about things as they tend to be opinion based rather than factual. I have now put 60 plus miles on my new bike and I really enjoy it. The seat was not comfortable to me so I replaced it with a $20 seat from Walmart. I did not downrate the bike for this as it did not surprise me. I have found the seven gears to be more than adequate and spend most of my riding time in gears 1 through 4. I am 63 years old and find that this bike meets my needs without having 21 gears to go through.
I read a lot of information about chainless bikes where they were being knocked because the bevel gears were not as efficient as a chain. I am a mechanical engineer and I found those statements to be misleading at best. A chain has so many links where efficiency can be lost not to mention the fact that the two sprockets rarely line up which must cause some binding as well. I find my chainless bike to be very efficient, smooth and easy to pedal.
I also read concerns about removing the rear tire on a chainless bike. Nothing could be further from the truth! I over inflated my rear tire and blew the inner tube so I got a quick look at this process. I would estimate that it requires about 1 to 2 minutes to remove the rear tire to replace the inner tube. The first time should take you longer as you will want to read the instructions. This process is no big deal and I did not get greasy from a chain in the process!
If you want to find a downside with this bike, it would be with the instruction material. The quality of some of the pictures is not as good as it could be and the written words make you want to rely on the pictures!
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