Heres the thing. A new sub $400 road bike is going to weigh a ton and not allow you to honestly guage if you are going to like road riding or not. A decent used bike can be bought for what you are looking to spend. I bought a Trek 1400 from the 90’s for $200 off ebay and then decided to get a better bike. If you buy a used bike and don’t like the sport, sell it to someone who is doing exactly what you are thinking of doing now.
I don’t regret buying my sub $400 bike after 4 years.
Bike people are such divas.
Same rig, didn’t sell it. I’m not going to. Now that I live in the city I’m just going to putz around from bar to bar in the summer.
This thread is such a mixed bag of pretentious dickholes and actual hobby enthusiasts that I literally can’t tell the difference.
Lol at fry
I am still on my 1983 gitane tour de France and my wife is still on her 1986 connondale sr600. Over the winter I built my wife a cruiser. After these horrible descriptions I am realizing that I really need to get some pics up.
As far as picking up a road bike for under $400 you should have no trouble picking up a very nice riding used road bike for that. I picked up both the gitane (lugged steel frame) and the canondale (aluminum) for $350 and they only needed tires and tubes.
My first road bike cost me 500 bux on ebay…
used is teh way to go… all alum or alum with Carbon seat stays/Fork (better ride, all alum is stiff)
My bike has full ultegra components… They ARE out there…
a 2-3 year old used bike for 500 bux is going to be the same ride as a new bike in the 1300-1400 dollar range (if its been treated well)
I transfered all the components from that bike to my new carbon frame, and sold th eold frame for 200 bux on ebay… essentially getting a full Ultegraa groupset for 300 bux
Bikesdirect is a good site for a new bike, but take it to a real bike store after you get it to be tuned, the derailleurs were setup like crap on my wife’s bike, it wouldn’t shift for nothing…
Got new wheels for my tri bike…
Been riding a TON on the computrainer in the basement, cant wait to see how it translates to real road
I’m so ready to hit the trails this year. I’m changing vehicles soon so my truck is going away and I will need to pick up a roof rack for my bike.
most bikes will fit into a back seat/truck if you pop both wheels off…
My road bike was one of my favorite purchases last year. Found it used for like $250 and sank a few bux having it all tuned up. Rides amazing and I literally used it as my main mode of transportation last summer. Between my road bike and longboard I hardly drove last summer. Loved it and cant wait to get out a ton more this year.
I can’t wait to shred some of the concrete parks in Colorado this summer on my bmx
I want to learn to air out of a quarter pipe. and take a road trip like that.
neither will ever happen.
edit: holy shit at 6:10. what a line
It’s a 2004 Acura TL with Leather. I doubt i want to put a muddy bike in there after I day of ripping the trails.
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Junky, how much does a setup like that run? is there a deflector that came with it for the front? Is it noisy?[COLOR=“Silver”]
I had a roof rack on my first car for my bmx, I think I spent around 300 for a full thule setup with deflector and 2 of their big mouth carriers (xwalkerx hooked me up with a killer price) and while it worked perfect it was ALWAYS noisy, with a bike or without you always knew it was there and it lowered my mpg by 3 or 4 miles which was pretty lame. I now just toss the bike in my trunk, if I was going to buy another rack for my car I would go with a hitch mount setup.
I have the deflector now. I bought it used on Craigslist. Probably around 400 new. 200 used probably.
Without the deflector it’s very noisy. With it you would never know the difference.
I used to work at Red Door, and have a full bike stand with all tools to strip down bike to frame. If anyone is looking to get a quality tune up without paying a shit ton, and at the hands of some punk kid at xxx shop, you can PM me.
As far as bikes, I built my own design off a M20 Raleigh mountain frame for durability. Has carbon specialized front fork, aluminum specialized straight mountain bar, cannondale stem, tri spoke lace 700cc front wheel, hollow through road crankset w/ 2 cog from gear drive, specialized carbon zert seatpost, durace rear derailer (for chain tensioner purpose only), sram hollow chain, 2 gears in rear w/ custom behind seat click changer (front gears you switch by lifting the chain to gear, all that is man), 700cc hybrid rear wheel. Oh also a durace front brake, the only brake, and with durace cabling. Total cost = $0
Pic of concept. Pre shimano durace rear derailer. Had a aftermarket chain tensioner on there but was cheaply made. So… took that off and used a derailer and added a gear and shifter.
19.3lbs
Do want.
I would love a bike that I could change from on-road to off-road with some parts swaping.
+1. hopefully this new bike will allow for that with just a tire change.
Where can you buy decent used bikes?
I had been looking at Raleigh M’s for over a year but the thought had never occurred to me that it
could go hybrid or whatever it’s called.
I had a small Raleigh 10spd when I was a kid and it was the worst. I missed my 20" and vowed never to accidentally whole road bikes again.