Originally Posted by Just Ride10
I OWN A KENT GMC DENALI ROAD BIKE.
Im a 15 year old highschool student who has always enjoyed cycling, no matter what it was on. Recently a friend of mine got a road bike, a Lemond.
So, finally the day was here I went to walmart.com typed in KENT GMC DENALI and cliked order. The final cost was 181.43$ It took about a week to deliver and it came mostly assembled, I just had to put on the front wheel and attach the seat. I had it, right there in my house, a real road bike. I put on a pair of Nike basketball shoes, put on shorts and a tee-shirt and I set out. I left at 2:30pm and didn't arrive home till 8:15pm. I felt so alive, my behind was so sore, my legs so numb and tired I couldn't even feel them, I was dizzy and dehydrated because I hadn't drank anything but a Pepsi before the ride, but I was alive, for the first time in my life was really alive.
My first road bike was a K-Mart, Huffy Techna-Lite, with the shifters on the neck and white handlebar tape. I believe I paid about $120. Which was a lot of money for me at the time. I loved that thing, put thousands of miles on it, and was distraught when I sold it to buy a Miyata 914 with Shimano 105 componets - yadda yadda yadda...
The point is, its much less important what you ride, but that you ride! Wear that thing out!
dp