birkes skrev:
Quoted message said:I have one little "problem" and I hope you can help me.I have 500 euro`s to
spend on my new bike and I am looking for those three models and I cannot
decide so please help me with your suggestions,tnx
It's not easy suggesting in that price area. Because everywhere you look
there are such big compromises made that I'm afraid most people would
call them 'Piece of [censored]'. Now you might have months of fun on them on
the gravel but taking alivro, Acera and Tourney - parts on something
taken offroad doesn't sound like a healthy affair. Not only is it heavy,
not precise and not very durable - but it's created just for one
purpose. Beeing cheap.
So my advice to you would be this,
Buy a nice used '04 or '05 model of a model equipped with better parts.
or
Find a model without disc brakes and front suspension but which have
better parts allround. Because the suspension forks on this things does
more negative to the riding than positive - and add costs. And disc
brakes also cost more than they do good when everything else on the bike
is below minimum.
For what it's worth, I bought a bike in '01 that was a '99 model Sintesi
X-Wing. Top specced, here in norway the owner had paid 2,942 euro for it
(gave me the documents on the purchase as proof) and even though he
never got to use it enough to wear off the rubber spokes that's on the
fresh new original tires - he sold it to me for 1,151 euro, including
some barly used shoes for the clip pedals.
So with your 500 Euros I'm sure you can get a lightly used bike that
originally costed the double. But just ask here about the bikes and
people will comment on the quality of the components.
You don't need some 3000 euro machine to have fun. you just need
something that will not break when you put it through some though
terrain. 🙂 but if you only want to bike around the city trying to look
cool, those bikes still looks too cheap 😉
