$2300- What Bike should i buy
- Thread starter Benno7
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$2300 total .
Less:
$800 for a PowerTap rear wheel.
$100 for cassettes that suit your riding style.
$50 for a couple decent tires.
$60 helmet
$20 ?? pump
$50 ?? shoes
But there are lots of good bikes for $2000-2500. Find one that is sold by your local bike shop. Make sure it fits. Make sure you can afford all the other things you need.
Less:
$800 for a PowerTap rear wheel.
$100 for cassettes that suit your riding style.
$50 for a couple decent tires.
$60 helmet
$20 ?? pump
$50 ?? shoes
But there are lots of good bikes for $2000-2500. Find one that is sold by your local bike shop. Make sure it fits. Make sure you can afford all the other things you need.
You can get full Titanium Motobecane frame bikes at http://www.bikesdirect.com/ for $1700 with full Ultegra; or a full carbon Kestrel with full Sram Force for $1899. take a gander at the site and browse for other bikes if those don't get you salivating.
What kind of riding are you wanting to do? There are plenty of nice racing bikes, touring bikes, and sport/touring bikes out there that can be had for $2300 or less. If you don't know a lot about the full fitting of a bicycle and how to assemble a bike, I would suggest that you not purchase a bike off the internet. At 6'4", you might want to get a less expensive bike and then continue saving until you can afford a custom built bike to fit you.
Sorry but this is mostly bull. Most custom made bikes are purchased over the internet!!!! That's right, over the internet and never going to the shop to get fitted or see the bike being built. One of the most famous, and one of the most expensive, and you have to wait the longest to get the bike is Richard Sachs, and there is a list longer then my arm of famous custom bike builders who deal over the internet. And when you get a custom bike via internet you have some assembly to do...or for about $75 you can take it to a bike shop and they'll put it together for you.
Does 6' 4" present a problem? Only if your buying at Walmart for the most part. You find some limitations in factory built bikes, but I'm 6' 1" and ride a 56, all of the Ti's at Bike Direct I looked at goes to 59 which should fit someone around 6' 4" depending on inseam of course. You can always e-mail them with your height and inseam measurements and they will respond as to what's the best size for you.
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