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| adjl 05/01/17 1:29:12 PM #8: | wolfy42 posted... Cheapest bike they have is $450 Realistically, if you're looking for something decent, you should probably be looking in the $400-600 range for a new one. There's a sizable jump in quality from the $100-300 range to that one. Cheaping out on a Walmart Special will do the job, but it's not necessarily going to be a particularly comfortable ride (even with an aftermarket saddle upgrade; there's a lot more to bicycle ergonomics than how comfy the seat is), nor a particularly fast/efficient one, nor a particularly durable one. Cheaping out on this first bike to see how you like having one makes enough sense, but you're probably going to want to upgrade if you end up using it a lot. If nothing else, free parking that you don't have to spend time searching for is huge. If you're taking your bike downtown on a regular basis, you'll fairly quickly save enough time and money to justify splurging a bit. Don't go for a $4000 one, obviously (even aside from the cost, those tend to be full-carbon frames, which are bad to put in bike racks because of how susceptible they are to impacts from other bikes), but you really don't need to be scraping the bottom of the barrel. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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