Quote Originally Posted by sfa View Post
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
Keep in mind - you can always return it and you can always exchange it if it's the wrong size for the other size.

If you give an idea what height you are and the rest of that, some of us might be able to help you deal with whether to pick a small or a medium.

SRAM vs shimano. I've been really impressed with any SRAM components that I've seen and a lot of the women on here have been really complimentary towards the quality... Shimano's more common, it's a bigger company, so it may be easier to find replacement parts locally if you need it.

But for the price, that bike does have nice components.