First let me provide you with some background about myself.
I'm not proud to say this and can't really find a better title but, I'm a gamer and as you can guess I'm lazy in out of shape.
Lately though, I've started to become bored with video games, and idle activities. I find myself wanting doing something else to keep myself busy. I had this old old bike from Wal-Mart, in my back porch for a couple of years but really only used it a few times. It rode fine but the gears and chain were rusted, I used some WD40 to at least make it function, and it's heavy (low quality steel). After awhile I find myself having fun riding it, but I can't help be feel how well bad the shape the bike is in, then lastly the smaller cassette gear and spacers cracked, making the bike unusable.
So I decided to get a new bike instead of having it repaired, did some research about bike sizing as the one I had was a little too big for myself.
Now I'm 5'7" with 30" inseam, and I used a bike frame calculator that suggested to get a 52cm frame size with 170mm crank size. I weigh 170~175lbs.
So I bought this bike at bikes-direct after doing some searching around and research.
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I'm a little worried if this was too much bike for a novice
I plan to ride this for fun and exercise, not for sport and competition.
I live in a area with okay roads and a good amount of hills, few level roads.
Also is wearing cycling clothes/shoes necessary? I live in a somewhat rough part of my city and I really don't want to stick out like a sore thumb.