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Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby Minkey Chief » April 25th, 2011, 9:27 pm

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BUYER THIS IS NOT FOR YOU! Shut up and ride... remember?
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby akshay200x » April 25th, 2011, 9:30 pm

Nice..... :)
One doubt. How are you going to force a nOOb to read this?

(NOT FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT HAVE A CYCLE!)
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby anvith3 » April 25th, 2011, 9:35 pm

Where were you oh Minkey chief when I was making my purchase. Thankfully I fall in the bracket that can atleast say WOW!! (just about 2 weeks of riding in so will not DISCUSS much)

So as the Done!! part says, see you in a couple of weeks

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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby MuggyMach3 » April 25th, 2011, 9:36 pm

walchand pushed you over the edge chief? :mrgreen:
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby htedum » April 25th, 2011, 9:48 pm

Gautam, you've outdone yourself. May I suggest making this bright red, making it mandatory reading, and a quiz on this before they're allowed to sign up?
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby shankarbn » April 25th, 2011, 10:30 pm

Minkey Chief wrote:this thread


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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby vkalia » April 25th, 2011, 11:56 pm

Might want to put a link to the What Bike FAQ in the original article, if only to give people one more chance to redeem themselves.
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby rohan_kini » April 25th, 2011, 11:59 pm

Wanna apply for the Crack customer service team position at BOTS ? :) lol
Folks dont seem to stop at the forum - they read this and then want to hear it in a person. Again. Sigh.

Another really interesting read on similar lines - http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/se ... 50038.html
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby anvith3 » April 26th, 2011, 12:10 am

rohan_kini wrote:Another really interesting read on similar lines - http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/se ... 50038.html

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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby akshay200x » April 26th, 2011, 12:20 am

rohan_kini wrote:Wanna apply for the Crack customer service team position at BOTS ? :) lol
Folks dont seem to stop at the forum - they read this and then want to hear it in a person. Again. Sigh.

Another really interesting read on similar lines - http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/se ... 50038.html

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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby vkalia » April 26th, 2011, 12:39 am

rohan_kini wrote:Wanna apply for the Crack customer service team position at BOTS ? :) lol
Folks dont seem to stop at the forum - they read this and then want to hear it in a person. Again. Sigh.


I think they want to hear the story of the Firefox 6000 that you own.
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby Minkey Chief » April 26th, 2011, 12:41 am

rohan_kini wrote:Wanna apply for the Crack customer service team position at BOTS ?


YES! (You're sorry you asked now, huh?)

rohan_kini wrote:Another really interesting read on similar lines - http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/se ... 50038.html


Haha, yeah I remember that one!

But the other stuff aside, I was actually serious about recommending specific bikes, because it seems to be what people want to hear. So many people don't want leads to possible bikes, but a clear "Buy the Rockrider 5.1 in size M."

I think those are safe buys because they're easy to sell/easy to put to other uses and also not too specialised in form, so a good way to know for sure whether this whole biking thing is for you.
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby rohan_kini » April 26th, 2011, 1:36 am

:)

About the recommendations - you should definitely try it and see if you are any more successful.

IMO folks generally want to get themselves into a confused state. I seem to be meeting and talking to folks who are utterly confused with all the recommendations on the net.

The single bike recommendation is a good idea - in isolation. They will take your recommendation, then dig around more and get more recommendations and then read blog picture/spec posts of newbie-ala-experts and get swayed by the elaborate poetry that is written about the latest acquisitions.

Finally a free stand too.

Think Trek and Lance have still not gotten over a query from here about how to attach a side stand to the Remedy 66 :) Lol. Remembered it with the side stand.
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby vkalia » April 26th, 2011, 1:41 am

^^ For real? Someone emailed Trek asking about attaching a stand to a remedy? Did they also ask about putting racks on a Madone 6.9?
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Re: Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

Postby bonigv » April 26th, 2011, 8:39 am

great stuff chief. almost a communist zen level reading.
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