Originally Posted by
mr geeker
I know I'm going to catch all sorts of crap for this, but, since you're not sure if you'll stick with it why not get a big box store bike? Not only will you get an ok bike, but you'll get it on the cheap. Then take your big box store bike to you local bike shop to iron out the "kinks", that is of course if you don't know how to do such things your self.
And justifiably so.
By the time he buys the POS and finds a shop that will reluctantly try to make it functional he will have spent close to what he would have for a bike
from the shop and still have an inferior bike with no warranty or shop support and little re-sale value.
There's an expression that applies: The poor man pays twice...