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What used touring bike to look for?
A huge block garage sale with two city blocks of people selling goods, the
520 trek was laying up against a tree. Flat tires, crappy cables but other than that it was good. I pulled it home alongside the bike I was riding. Didn't have a price on it, but two dollars was what they asked for it. Mid fork braze ons, aero brake levers, bio pace chain rings but it all worked after putting tires on it. I once bought a Bianchi race bike for 17 dollars at a garage sale, I sold it for 175.00 it was too tall for me. wrote in message ... "noweldrecumbent" wrote: I will second the Schwinn Voyageur Tourer, I have one, it is a joy to ride. My Trek 520, and it is solid, stable, sweet touring bike to ride bought it at a garage sale for 2 dollars. when I'm not riding the homebrew bent. Dave http://www.noweldrecumbent.com wow two bucks for a Trek 520! Now THAT was a bargain. Was it in good shape when you bought it? My concern abt buying new is that I have no long distance touring experience AT ALL. I'm afraid I cold spend say $1500 on a new touring bike and then find it to painful for anything over 40 miles....and have to take a loss and buy a bent. So.... maybe best for me to buy cheap used stuff and get some REAL experience under my belt so I will find these things out before the big ride |
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What used touring bike to look for?
Tim McNamara wrote:
Umm. Do you have a bike now? If so, start riding 50-100 mile rides and see how you feel. You can begin to refine your position and adapt your body to be comfortable. Then you will have that information (saddle height, saddle setback, reach to the bars, bar height) established, which will help you in selecting the proper sized touring bike. You might as well find out if you like long rides now! You can also do some weekend credit card tours- ride out Saturday and home on Sunday- as a gentle introduction to touring. I don't have any bike at all right now So I'm going to have to buy something even if its used |
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