Originally Posted by
nesteel
Buy once, cry once. Everything else is just an imitation.
I learned to take this approach for most things in my life awhile ago. Given my small income it often means saving up longer, but in the long run the decision is always worth it. After tooling around with old bikes for awhile and deciding what I really want, I decided to drop a (to me) large sum on one of the few I know I really desire and it’s a good feeling that I know will enhance my enjoyment of it rather than making the other (still capable and pretty, but to me lesser) options work.