On 09/15/2015 01:46 PM, drew wrote:
i tend to agree that dropping 2k on a complete bike and relying heavily on a salesperson to understand what you want, understand what is out there and then find something similar that that shop sells, make a good decision for you etc. is maybe not the best approach. would she not be better served in doing some research and finding a bike/frame that she could get excited about based on her priorities? a lot of good bikes have been mentioned, but i feel like any purchase of that amount is only truly a win win situation when you, yourself, are pretty clear about what it is that you want to buy into and why.
You know, I am absolutely the very last person on this earth to carp about the approach you suggest since all but one of my bikes was built exactly that way, but honestly, you'd think a person could go into a shop and give a description of what they wanted and be given several reasonable choices at the $2K price point. It's not like there aren't any being made by major manufacturers; we're a long way from the dark days when 25mm on a road bike was considered "super wide."
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