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Cuttlery
Title: Wanna see what you missed?
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Trying to get a road bike I can trailer the kid behind. My mountain bike sucks on the street so looking for something that does a little better on the road. Dont want anything too terribly fancy, but I dont want anything crappy either.
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regulator_cracka
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Tessa, beware.
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Cuttlery
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regulator_cracka posted:
Tessa, beware.
More likely with my current Mtn Bike than a road bike.
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What kind of roads are you gonna be ridding on? (all paved?)
Any hills?
Price range.
Do you know anything about putting a bike together yourself and adjusting things properly? (if not that eliminates buying one online.)
For dealer bikes im a fan of specialized bikes but it depends on your price range.
You might look at the specialized Sirrus. Starts at $500
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Cuttlery
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Nerf-Evil-Oo posted:
What kind of roads are you gonna be ridding on? (all paved?)
Any hills?
Price range.
Do you know anything about putting a bike together yourself and adjusting things properly? (if not that eliminates buying one online.)
For dealer bikes im a fan of specialized bikes but it depends on your price range.
You might look at the specialized Sirrus. Starts at $500
Would be all paved or at least 90% paved. I have a full suspension Gary Fisher mtn bike for off roading.
There may be some hills, I wouldnt be climbing any mountains though.
Price range is TBD, I dont want anything thats going to cost me thousands as I wont be using it to win any races, this will just be for touring around with the kid on the pavement around here.
I have looked at a couple specialized road bikes Allez, Sirrus, and Roll (I think this is their lower end touring bike). When I was a kid Specialized was the brand I grew up with but I am keeping my options open as Specialized tends to make higher end bikes.
I could put it together myself if I wanted to just buy a frame and components seperately but I dont know I want to spend that much, like I said not going to be doing any racing or anything.
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look at craigslist.
I see road bikes on there all the time in my area for WAY under their selling price...I saw a $500 trek full suspension mountain bike for like $175 last week...thought about buying it because my bike sucks...but I don't ride much and definitely not enough to warrant a full suspension bike.
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If you can put it together yourself then id look at bikes from
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com
http://www.performancebike.com
But if you dont know how to adjust the cabling or dont have a truing stand then id go with a shop bike.
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get less knobby tires for the mountain bike?
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Ah-Schoo
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Have you considered a hybrid? I found them a lot cheaper for getting the same components as some of the road bikes. But you get a more comfortable bike and a lot more durable than a road bike. (I put 5,00km on my Raleigh hybrid every year for 6 years straight.)
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Lanacan
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Registered: 2002-2-19 17:27:59
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Ah-Schoo posted:
Have you considered a hybrid? I found them a lot cheaper for getting the same components as some of the road bikes. But you get a more comfortable bike and a lot more durable than a road bike. (I put 5,00km on my Raleigh hybrid every year for 6 years straight.)
This, unless you plan on riding something like 50 miles a day.
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