If you prioritise comfort over outright speed and are looking for a sorted commuter at a very reasonable price then you’d be foolish to look past this, the £799 Skyline 30 from UK brand Genesis.
Unassuming paintwork and a typical hybrid shape make this a bike that will happily blend into the background. Yet shine a headlight on the side of the Skyline and its frame and tyre decals will glow in a way that’ll sharpen the senses of even the doziest of drivers.
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The alloy frame and fork at the heart of this bike don’t create your usual hybrid chassis, that’s because Genesis has used its expertise in mountain bike frames to come up with a geometry that it knows will amount to a great riding bike. Bring up the geometry charts and you’ll realise that the angles used on the Skyline 30 are very close to that of Genesis’ Longitude mountain bike — a coincidence? Don’t be silly.
Similarly, Genesis has fitted a 70mm stem (80mm in larger sizes), which I feel is a good match for the backswept 640mm (660mm in larger sizes) handlebar and should translate to handling that’s familiar and maybe even fun for mountain bike folk.
Another big part of the Skyline 30 is just how well equipped it is out of the box, with full-length mudguards and dynamo front and rear lights as standard. These aren’t cheap after-thought additions and should serve to keep you dry and well illuminated. Better still, each Skyline 30 sold will arrive with a compatible Tubus rear rack at no extra cost, something that isn’t fitted to our sample bike.
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