Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 780
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From: Back-of-beyond, Kootenays, BC
Bikes: Specialized Roubaix Expert Road and Specialized Stump Jumper FS Mountain; De Vinci Caribou touring, Intense Tracer T275c, Cramerotti, Specialized Allez, Condor, Marinoni, Kona Rove DL
If you can afford it, get her the better spec'ed out bike. Your hope is that she'll get into the sport and improve. If that happens she'll be able to use that 'starter' bike for quite a while and when she upgrades she'll have something half decent to sell.