The Adventure Double Shot is very handsome, very affordable and very blue
Well equipped three-speed commuter costs just £449
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This charming and very affordable blue commuter, the Adventure Double Shot, caught our eye this week at IceBike 2018, the annual in-house trade show from distributor Madison.
The bike is built around a three-speed Shimano Nexus internal gear hub, a nice silver crankset with a chain guard and cantilever brakes.
Canti’s may seem like an odd choice in 2018, with discs becoming almost ubiquitous on commuter bikes, but if set up correctly they’ll perform well enough and with great clearances too.
The finishing kit definitely screams comfort rather than performance — the north road style bars, plush riveted saddle and chunky leatherette grips are about as plush as contact points get, and the the chunky 35mm wide tyres should go some way to smoothing out any road buzz.
We didn’t have scales to hand, but using a calibrated elbow we can confirm that the steel bike weighs ‘not too much’.
The Double Shot is available for just £449, and with the addition of some mudguards this should make an ideal and very affordable year-round commuter.
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Jack Luke is the deputy editor at BikeRadar and has been fettling with bikes for his whole life. Always in search of the hippest new niche in cycling, Jack is a self-confessed gravel dork, fixie-botherer, tandem-evangelist and hill climb try hard. Jack thinks nothing of bikepacking after work to sleep in a ditch or taking on a daft challenge for the BikeRadar YouTube channel. He is also a regular contributor to the BikeRadar podcast. With a near encyclopaedic knowledge of cycling tech, ranging from the most esoteric retro niche to the most cutting-edge modern kit, Jack takes pride in his ability to seek out stories that would otherwise go unreported. He is also particularly fond of tan-wall tyres, dynamo lights, cup and cone bearings, and skids. Jack has been writing about and testing bikes for more than five years now, has a background working in bike shops for years before that, and is regularly found riding a mix of weird and wonderful machines. Jack can also often be seen zooming about with his partner aboard their beloved tandem, Cecil.
