Ya know, I just recommended this bike to a guy I work with. He's "thinking" he might get into road biking and his choice were this, or a $600 bike with marginally better componentry.
I told him to buy this, because chances are if he gets hooked to roadie's he'll want to replace with a much better bike anyway (we're overseas, so craigslist and ebay weren't options for his choices of used bikes). I told him up front that the bike would not be great, but would at least give him a chance to determine if he liked it for $400 less than the other not-so-great POS.
If you WILL be into road biking, don't buy this. If you have a habit of trying new hobbies to abandon them because none of them were as fun as the next one, buy this and save yourself the dough.
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