Originally Posted by
johnniz
The cheapest cross bike I can where I live (Norway) is is 970$ new and 550$ used on the craigslist equivalent, and that is quite a bit over the budget I had in mind
550 used with decent components will be a lot better than 500 on some **** low end thing. If you somehow broke a mountain bike then you already know you are hard on components.
problem with a hybrid is that they are not a good mtn bike and not a good road bike.