Originally Posted by
orange57
From what I have seen on here, many will direct you to a LBS, I checked out a few, but ultimately decided to purchase from BD. <ducks for cover>
I purchased a Motobecane Elite Adventure. It took me about 4 hours to get the bike set up, and so far am very pleased with my purchase. It may take some less time depending on how much experience they have setting up a bike. But for me it was also a learning curve. I went around to a couple of local bike shops, and the starting range for most bikes was the $600+, which was more than I wanted to spend. I got my bike from BD, and the next day the price went up to just over what my budget for a bike was. So for me it was online or CL. I ordered on a Sunday, had my bike on Thursday. All in all a pretty simple process and can't complain.
Thanks for this!! My biggest issue is will the bike be reliable. It's bad enough that I once threw down $20 for a bike and it now has way too many issues. I would hate to throw down $300-$400 and get something unreliable. My fixed gear bike now has done me great. The only 'issues' are the brakes which is my own fault for messing with them. Had I of left them alone, there would be nothing wrong with my bike lol