Originally Posted by
howellhandmade
You don't say where you live; if I could buy used bikes for what responders say they're worth I'd have quite a stable. Locally, really nice bikes seem to sell for more than blue book, but then the vast majority of the bikes on CL are $20 junkers priced at $250. The real test may be whether the bike is still there in a week.
I live in North Mississippi. I have been looking in the Memphis area on craigslist and some surrounding areas. I am 6'3" so from all the information I have gathered so far I have been looking for 62cm bike. Recommendations were 60 - 64 on a website I used for sizing. Since this is a beginner bike I would like to find one in the 200 dollar range -used of course. But I would be willing to go up to about 500. My idea was to find a quality bike that fits and one that I can upgrade in the future if needed or get my money back out of ii if turns out to be something I am just not interested in. Oh - the goal is to do triathlons but only for fun. Of course I have no idea of the various line of bikes and what is high end and low end until I run across them and search them out on the web.