First road bike

Welcome to the forum, Rachael.

I would suggest that you visit the bike shops in your area and ride as many different road bikes as you can in your budget.

Most of the major bike brands are going to have bikes in the same price ranges and often of the same quality, warranty, etc.

What you really need to know is which bike feels the best to you, looks really cool to you, is priced right, and you really like the employees at the particular shop that has the bike you want.

Once you've done some shopping, and test riding, and you've got a short list of bikes to consider...let us know what brands/models you're looking at and the people here can make some comments specific to those bikes.

Have fun shopping!

You didn't mention a budget for the bike.

But if you don't mind mail order, there is this: bikesdirect.combikesdirect.comOpen ↗ Look at the home page for their sales, if none of those rattle your bones then click on the road tab and browse the wide selection, they have a lot of bikes to chose from...probably too many to chose from, but at least you can dial in your budget. There is no additional charge for shipping either if you live in the lower 48 states.

When you say biking on the weekend did you mean off road/trekking? If so then you should look at an urban bike that can cater for both worlds

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When you say biking on the weekend did you mean off road/trekking? If so then you should look at an urban bike that can cater for both worlds

Urban bike? Are you saying a hybrid bike? A Hybrid or a Cyclocross would handle both road and mild off road stuff and still be faster on pavement then a MTB, plus you can put pannier on either for commuting or grocery hauling etc.