Go to veloswap, that place is swarming with great bikes for what you need, and you can even get upgrades there. Just know about compatability, if you get shifters, know their speed, if you get bars, know their width, and so on
October 20th, you did say you may have to wait
http://veloswap.competitor.com/
Hmmmm
I ride a diamondback podium 1 from 2006, came mostly tiagra equipped. I now ride fairly seriously, did a triathalon and am now looking into some races, maybe the steamboat 3- day thing
Been riding since july last year.
I started out riding around my local reservoir, 8 miles, quite often with my dad. I was on a cheapy-d walmart mountain bike.
I then uprgaded to my current bike for $200 on craigslist
Got my jersey at veloswap $20, good deal it was new and high end
Got another at goodwill $3
Shorts, new $40
Helmet $20 on amazon(Just won a new one from rudy project at my tri)
Shoes got on cl $40
pedals $40
Pump, $40- but i could have gotten something much cheaper (like on amazon)
cant think of anything else i already had sunglasses, who doesn't
excluding the fancy jersey thats $183
Including the fancy jersey and bike thats $403
I consider myself pretty serious, I am starting to race, and i don't look terribly fredly