Originally Posted by
Married4Now2015
Then spill beans and share your snobby wisdom homeboy! It's all good with me!
Okay, you asked for it.
If you don't know what you want, it doesn't matter what you buy. Spend 20% of your budget on the big name bike at your local shop that you like the best for that price: the ride, the color, whatever. Ride it for a while. When you have seen and experienced enough to know what you really want that you don't already have so you don't have to ask us, then spend the other 80% on your "real" bike. Not a single name recommended by someone else will satisfy you better than any other except by dumb luck. That is the bane and the beauty of good bicycles.