Blaireau

Found a lemond Versailles from lst year for 1200 sounds like a cool deal -- I'll go test ride it today if they still have it!

manutd

ofcourse you've never heard of felt either....Rocky Mountain is a decent brand...Devinci is better tho...

https://www.bikes.com/bikes/2007/solo/solo-30ac.aspx

Blaireau

Well I am not lucky enough to live in Canada (or better yet Quebec) so no, I'd never heard of these bikes. And it seems that the leonardo bikes don't have dealers in teh US, so I'm sol as far as these bikes are concerned....
I am stoked about checking out the LEmond tho....

jimx200

Oh right, very direct contact? You get email (that were replied to a week later in my case) or a secret, unpublished phone number that no one answers. But you do get a bike with a bogus "Retail Price" of about three times the selling price to make you feel good. Other extras: tuneups or adjustments? Whoops, not available (unless you box the bike and send it to Texas). And it helps that you have good bike mechanic knowledge to making sure the bottom bracket is correctly installed, fitted and torqued, rear/front derailer adjustment know how is required, make sure you check the wheels to make sure they are true, and if you have problems....well, maybe you could call the secret phone number.
But first you must make sure you get the right size! Mike at BD told me to go test ride Trek and Fuji bikes at local bike shops then buy from him. Support your local bike shop and not someone who does business like this.

ElJamoquio

I've pm'd Mike several times here on BF, always had a response in under 24 hours (actually, probably a response in under two hours every time, but I'm not going to compare time stamps just so that I can say that on this thread).

FYI, I have always steered Newbies away from BD. But your exaggerations about MSRP indicate you're not very open-minded about this, so I won't try to convince you about BD's service/place in the market.

And for what it's worth, I don't care for the test-ride then buy elsewhere advice.

JOEPIPPAS

I tell you. go look at the Lemond Turmalet you wont be disappointed.https://lemondbikes.com/bikes/road_ra.../tourmalet.php

mimis

BMC streetfire SSX

bvfrompc

Felt, had one, loved it, until I got my CAAD8

Chucklehead

bbattle

Twin Six makes a killer argyle jersey. I'm getting one since I don't ride a Felt and the Slipstream jerseys have "Felt" in huge letters down the sides.