Re: Looking for MTB recommendations

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Boyd,

Since you work at a bike store, maybe you could try out a few before you
buy one.

Also, in the long run, you'll miss the quality of a better bike (or
anything) if you go cheap than the money if you spend more.

You might also want to consider buying Ned Overend's book on riding tips.

T o m Dillon
Lakewood, CO

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>Also, in the long run, you'll miss the quality of a better bike (or
>anything) if you go cheap than the money if you spend more.

Here's a devil's advocate view: if you can afford it, buy cheap and move up.

That way you get to know what a cheap bike feels like and you appreciate the
diff when you move to the next step up.

One mitigating factor cost-wise might be that while you're riding that low-end
bike, you're becoming more savy about bikes in general and you then have a
higher probability of scoring a good used bike for about 1/3 or 1/4 what you'd
pay for the same thing new on your next step up.


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PeteCresswell

Pete Cresswell sez:

>Here's a devil's advocate view: if you can afford it, buy cheap and move up.
>
>That way you get to know what a cheap bike feels like and you appreciate the
>diff when you move to the next step up.
>
>One mitigating factor cost-wise might be that while you're riding that low-end
>bike, you're becoming more savy about bikes in general and you then have a
>higher probability of scoring a good used bike for about 1/3 or 1/4 what you'd
>pay for the same thing new on your next step up.

Good points. Buy the most you can afford if you _really_ know what you
want. That's hard to do with bikes or even tires for that matter.

Maybe the way to do this would be to buy a really cheap bike and ride it
to death, then buy something good. That way you'd have a bit of
experience riding so you could make a better choice about what you'd
want in a bike. It'd help if there was a way to test ride more bikes too.

T o m Dillon
Lakewood, CO

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