I have a lot of money to spend at REI

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There's currently a 20% off your order special going on on reioutlet.com...

Depending on what you're willing to spend or what you were looking for...

This bike goes down to about $1200 for a $2k bike... (I guess it also depends if you have strong feelings shimano vs. sram, but it does have good components)

http://www.rei.com/REI-Outlet/product/780688


But you could also probably find other things that are great deals on reioutlet to use your gift certificate on

I just got that email and saw that bike too, and now I'm hemming and hawing. I know nothing about these bikes, but the discounted price is about what I expected to pay for an entry level bike. I have no strong feeling about components because I'm riding a 20 year old bike with bar end friction shifters, so anything new is going to take some adjustment! So I'm sitting here with the K2 geometry chart (which isn't easy to find on their site), converting everything to centimeters and comparing that to the geometry on the bike I have because the K2 bikes are sold with irritating "small, medium, large" sizes (broken down by gender), so if I'm a woman's medium does that make me a men's small? Why can't they just give number sizing?

Is SRAM versus Shimano kind of like Mac versus PC? I'm a Mac user. Does that help me decide?

Sarah