Originally Posted by
Vintage Schwinn
If you have to ask such a question, perhaps you have no real need for an expensive bicycle at this point in time. (edit).
There is just Way too much great advice and a surfeit of common sense in this post.
This is a serious and thorough explanation of the wise and informed bicycle-buying process, full of intelligent advice. Why is it being wasted on BF?
Great post .... but you cast your ceramic bearings before people whose bikes have Ashtabula cranks and no derailleurs.