Hey guys, I'm new here.
Also new to the cycling community.
Well, I have few friends who bike a lot, some with 3k+ bikes, some with 1k bikes. The one with really expensive bikes is competing and biking is in his lifestyle, so the expensive bike are justified, but the other friends, maybe not that much.
I wanted to get into biking, but then again I don't feel like spending 1k just to pedal around.
I want to approach biking as an hobby that will get me to do more cardio, i'm a very active person that goes to the gym 4-5x/week and run 2-3x per week but I wanted to switch things up, I tought about cycling.
But I find it hard to spend 500-1k just to pratice a sport that is as simple as riding a bike So i was wondering the following :
Does a vintage bike, 10 speed lets say, get's the job done and is as pleasant as driving as a more expensive and newer bike ?
I was looking at my local ad list and could find nice 70s-80s vintage road racing bikes (10 speeds and 12 speeds) in good shape for under 150$. I mean, Would it be a good choice to get one ? put maybe 100-200$ on it for newer equipement and a little refresh and call it a day ?
Could you get similar if not better performance than a brand new 500$ bike (low entry point of road racing bikes)
What do you think ? Yay or nay ? I don't want to compete, but I want to go pretty fast to get a good cardio going and better myself tought.
Thanks alot in advance.
Also new to the cycling community.
Well, I have few friends who bike a lot, some with 3k+ bikes, some with 1k bikes. The one with really expensive bikes is competing and biking is in his lifestyle, so the expensive bike are justified, but the other friends, maybe not that much.
I wanted to get into biking, but then again I don't feel like spending 1k just to pedal around.
I want to approach biking as an hobby that will get me to do more cardio, i'm a very active person that goes to the gym 4-5x/week and run 2-3x per week but I wanted to switch things up, I tought about cycling.
But I find it hard to spend 500-1k just to pratice a sport that is as simple as riding a bike So i was wondering the following :
Does a vintage bike, 10 speed lets say, get's the job done and is as pleasant as driving as a more expensive and newer bike ?
I was looking at my local ad list and could find nice 70s-80s vintage road racing bikes (10 speeds and 12 speeds) in good shape for under 150$. I mean, Would it be a good choice to get one ? put maybe 100-200$ on it for newer equipement and a little refresh and call it a day ?
Could you get similar if not better performance than a brand new 500$ bike (low entry point of road racing bikes)
What do you think ? Yay or nay ? I don't want to compete, but I want to go pretty fast to get a good cardio going and better myself tought.
Thanks alot in advance.