How did you choose your bike?

[Trek420]

As a child through young adult I went from a Schwinn to Raleigh to Gitane to Mercier then .... stopped riding. What was I thinking????

When my GF (now the ex) ex and I got back into cycling we got GT mountain bikes. I still have "Bradley" my commuter, much upgraded and loved by now.

Wanting to do longer rides I got a Trek420, more about this bike on the "someone stole my bike" thread...gosh I came to love this "customised" bike. But no more Trek so I needed a new bike.

After much prodding on my part ("subliminal hint, get steel get steel") the ex got a Mondonico. I saw how much she liked the bike ("toldja you'd like steel").

The other name for my Mondonico should be "Revenge", I'll admit it is the Divorce bike Same make and model as she got but...mine's full custom so neener neener neener.

They say [I]the best revenge is living well.

My 3rd bike chose me, someone threw a Motobecane Mixte in a neighborhood dumpster. I did all the checking I could to make sure it was not stollen. Came up clean. I'm having it made into a freewheel.

[DebW]

My 3rd bike chose me, someone threw a Motobecane Mixte in a neighborhood dumpster. I did all the checking I could to make sure it was not stollen. Came up clean. I'm having it made into a freewheel.

Trek, that's rather wasteful to turn a whole bike's worth of steel into a freewheel. Unless it's a giant freewheel. You could have a really REALLY low gear.

[Trek420]

DebW my LBS and I are debating that or a fixed gear. He says there's a hub that I could flip over and use either way?

[bike4ever]

Trek420 - flip/flop hub. Surly makes one reasonably affordable.

[light_sabe_r]

BF put me on his old mountain bike to show me what I was missing out on. After that ride my body was SOOOOO SORE I could hardly move for a week!

That when I decided I needed a bike. So I started researching.

BF got me "fitted" and put me on a few road bikes (trek) I felt so overwhelmed and shocked at the price! I was a beginner! What if I didn't even like cycling??

Then I knuckled down. Researched a lot of women's bikes, went to a lot of stores then decided I wanted a step through while I was learning to ride again. And I needed to be able to lift it into my car (because at that stage I lived with my parents WAYYYY out of the city)

I looked at may different types, Wound up with Jamis Tangier. ^_^ I've now done 1035km on him and I've only had him since June 26... WOOHOO

Now as for picking my new roadie, I've test ridden a whole heap of different bikes, But SUB is the best thing I've ridden! Let's just say she fits and she handles like a dream. I want her because Jamis is hard to get up hills, but I CAN get up those hills which two months ago I would have walked.