Originally Posted by raleighdavp

As far as the bikesdirect stuff... you'll get a grip of haters if you get one from there but you'll find out that there's also a lot of people on this forum that buy single speeds with no shame from bikesdirect. I don't know why that is but apparently there single speeds have a better perceived quality than their multi speeds. On a different note, bikesdirect sells kestrels and those are pretty good multi speed bikes...