Originally Posted by valpoboyzkenny

05 Trek 4300. I'm new to this and after a little research i thought this would be a good starter bike for me. Eventually i'll get a frame and build a better, lighter bike and hopefully i'lll be able to ride it to it's potential by the time i'm finished. Besides, building a $1,000+ bike would be alot easier on me a few hundred dollars at a time than in one lump sum. I'll also learn more about working on bikes doing it myself.