Originally Posted by
njkayaker
If this is that frustrating, you must get frustrated a lot. "Unreasonable budgets are unreasonable". See post 10.
The circle still turns....
Looks comfortable!
Just to add some more, i think you can basically get any style of bicycle you want for a reasonable price. It is a wise idea to start relativly small with your budget when buying a new type of bicycle. If you like the style of bicycle then you will know what you want when you upgrade, that sort of knowledge only comes from experience. Often people get too fixated on amortizing the use over 20 years... really 20 years in the future? Lets try inexperienced cyclist using that bicycle for 8 months.