I am a begginer looking for bike buying advice

I have been looking at bikes online for a couple of weeks now and I am about ready to make a
purchase. I am prety fimilar on how to find my size and everything. I am looking for an entry level
bike, perhaps, just a little bit above the typical consumer bike which you would find in a general
sporting goods store. I am looking to spend $250, I figure that I will upgrade it latter if I feel
then need to. anyways my problem is that there are a ton of diffrent bike manufacturers, and types
of bikes. some like mongoos make real shitty to good quality bikes. so I have no idea of what I
should get. I am basicly looking for some advice on assesing the quality of a bike, so I know what
to look for. I am slightly considering a fuji bike which I saw on ebay for $225. does anyone here
know anything about these?

 

[email protected] thoughtfully penned:
> I have been looking at bikes online for a couple of weeks now and I am about ready to make a
> purchase. I am prety fimilar on how to find my size and everything. I am looking for an entry
> level bike, perhaps, just a little bit above the typical consumer bike which you would find in a
> general sporting goods store. I am looking to spend $250, I figure that I will upgrade it latter
> if I feel then need to. anyways my problem is that there are a ton of diffrent bike manufacturers,
> and types of bikes. some like mongoos make real shitty to good quality bikes. so I have no idea of
> what I should get. I am basicly looking for some advice on assesing the quality of a bike, so I
> know what to look for. I am slightly considering a fuji bike which I saw on ebay for $225. does
> anyone here know anything about these?

http://bbauer.gomen.org/newbike/ might help. I'm afrain $250 wont' get you very much good bike.

Penny

 

"Penny S." <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> [email protected] thoughtfully penned:
> > I have been looking at bikes online for a couple of weeks now and I am about ready to make a
> > purchase. I am prety fimilar on how to find my size and everything. I am looking for an entry
> > level bike, perhaps, just a little bit above the typical consumer bike which you would find in a
> > general sporting goods store. I am looking to spend $250, I figure that I will upgrade it latter
> > if I feel then need to. anyways my problem is that there are a ton of diffrent bike
> > manufacturers, and types of bikes. some like mongoos make real shitty to good quality bikes. so
> > I have no idea of what I should get. I am basicly looking for some advice on assesing the
> > quality of a bike, so I know what to look for. I am slightly considering a fuji bike which I saw
> > on ebay for $225. does anyone here know anything about these?
>
> http://bbauer.gomen.org/newbike/ might help. I'm afrain $250 wont' get you very much good bike.
>
> Penny
>
>

Hehehe...you're starting to sound like the Vietnamese guy who owns my LBS.

Mike

 

"Michael Dart" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> "Penny S." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > [email protected] thoughtfully penned:
> > > I have been looking at bikes online for a couple of weeks now and I am about ready to make a
> > > purchase. I am prety fimilar on how to find my size and everything. I am looking for an entry
> > > level bike, perhaps, just a little bit above the typical consumer bike which you would find in
> > > a general sporting goods store. I am looking to spend $250, I figure that I will upgrade it
> > > latter if I feel then need to. anyways my problem is that there are a ton of diffrent bike
> > > manufacturers, and types of bikes. some like mongoos make real shitty to good quality bikes.
> > > so I have no idea of what I should get. I am basicly looking for some advice on assesing the
> > > quality of a bike, so I know what to look for. I am slightly considering a fuji bike which I
> > > saw on ebay for $225. does anyone here know anything about these?
> >
> > http://bbauer.gomen.org/newbike/ might help. I'm afrain $250 wont' get
you
> > very much good bike.
> >
> > Penny
> >
> >
>
> Hehehe...you're starting to sound like the Vietnamese guy who owns my LBS.
>
> Mike
>
>

Or our guy at the local Fish and Chip shop... "Two scoop yippy coming up!"

Unfortunately when it comes to bikes, you get what you pay for and $250 doesn't buy you very much
these days. Today's bikes are little marvels of technology too; with different manufacturing
processes and materials and doo-dads and bells and whistles the money is quickly spent. Instead of
buying new, it might make sense to buy second-hand. If you buy wisely you could get quite a good
"pre-loved" bike.
--
Westie

 

[email protected] wrote:
>I am looking to spend $250, I figure that I will upgrade it latter if I feel then need to.

at that price range there is not gonna be a lot inteh way of "Quality". perhaps a rigid steel
frame with entry level componentry like the Gary Fisher; Gitchee Gumee on close-out. Or
Specialized hardrock

> I have no idea of what I should get.

One that fits

 

"Westie" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Michael Dart" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> >
> > "Penny S." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > [email protected] thoughtfully penned:
> > > > I have been looking at bikes online for a couple of weeks now and I am about ready to make a
> > > > purchase. I am prety fimilar on how to find my size and everything. I am looking for an
> > > > entry level bike, perhaps, just a little bit above the typical consumer bike which you would
> > > > find in a general sporting goods store. I am looking to spend $250, I figure that I will
> > > > upgrade it latter if I feel then need to. anyways my problem is that there are a ton of
> > > > diffrent bike manufacturers, and types of bikes. some like mongoos make real shitty to good
> > > > quality bikes. so I have no idea of what I should get. I am basicly looking for some advice
> > > > on assesing the quality of a bike, so I know what to look for. I am slightly considering a
> > > > fuji bike which I saw on ebay for $225. does anyone here know anything about these?
> > >
> > > http://bbauer.gomen.org/newbike/ might help. I'm afrain $250 wont' get
> you
> > > very much good bike.
> > >
> > > Penny
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hehehe...you're starting to sound like the Vietnamese guy who owns my LBS.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
>
> Or our guy at the local Fish and Chip shop... "Two scoop yippy coming up!"
>
> Unfortunately when it comes to bikes, you get what you pay for and $250 doesn't buy you very much
> these days. Today's bikes are little marvels of technology too; with different manufacturing
> processes and materials and doo-dads and bells and whistles the money is quickly spent. Instead of
> buying new, it might make sense to buy second-hand. If you buy wisely you could get quite a good
> "pre-loved" bike.

I was thinking about getting a used bike, but I have also seem some closeouts on old models that
were previously 500 for like 250 or even
219. for me 250 will buy me a bike that I can use to decide weather I want to invest more into this
hobby. I am more or less just looking on advise on how to asses the quality of what I am
getting. which that web site had a lot of usefull info in it.

 

ClydesdaleMTB says:

>at that price range there is not gonna be a lot inteh way of "Quality". perhaps a rigid steel
>frame with entry level componentry like the Gary Fisher; Gitchee Gumee on close-out. Or
>Specialized hardrock
>

Give me a couple of days to decide whether I want to take that personally, woodja?

;-)

Steve

 

[email protected] said...

> I have been looking at bikes online for a couple of weeks now and I am about ready to make a
> purchase. I am prety fimilar on how to find my size and everything. I am looking for an entry
> level bike, perhaps, just a little bit above the typical consumer bike which you would find in a
> general sporting goods store. I am looking to spend $250, I figure that I will upgrade it latter
> if I feel then need to. anyways my problem is that there are a ton of diffrent bike manufacturers,
> and types of bikes. some like mongoos make real shitty to good quality bikes. so I have no idea of
> what I should get. I am basicly looking for some advice on assesing the quality of a bike, so I
> know what to look for. I am slightly considering a fuji bike which I saw on ebay for $225. does
> anyone here know anything about these?

For that money, I would buy used. I have seen quite a few barely used nice bikes go for that money
on eBay. I saw a like new GT Tequesta go for less than that and it is a very nice bike. I know, I
have had one for more than 4 years. If you want new then a Mongoose on some sort of blowout sale
from somewhere like Dick's sporting goods might actually be about as good as you are going to get
for $250. I saw some advertised in a flyer in the paper a while back that sounded good for the
money. Fuji makes a wide range of bikes and they are generally well respected for making good bang
for the buck bikes, but they are not on the radar screen of bike snobs, at least not their
mountain bikes.

 

Mike Vandeman wrote:

> exposed for the dangerous, idiotic activity that it IS. It is evolution
>
So, then: mountain biking actually causes alterations in the gametes?

Pete H

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