Discuss 'Ultimate Buy a Bike' thread

[Minkey Chief]

Discussion for this thread.

BUYER THIS IS NOT FOR YOU! Shut up and ride... remember?

[akshay200x]

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

(NOT FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT HAVE A CYCLE!)

Loved this!

5) But even the smallest is too big!
Erm... I don't know what to say. Tobu?

No you call it the little warrior

ciao

[anvith3]

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


Anvith

[MuggyMach3]

walchand pushed you over the edge chief?

[htedum]

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?

[shankarbn]

this thread

[vkalia]

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.

[rohan_kini]

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

[anvith3]

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

[akshay200x]

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

+705!

[vkalia]

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.

[Minkey Chief]

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

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

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.

[rohan_kini]

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.

[vkalia]

^^ 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?

[bonigv]

great stuff chief. almost a communist zen level reading.

[rohan_kini]

@vkalia - yup. For real. Trek was stunned !
Racks on the Madone - not sure about that. But side stands on these roads bikes, yes

[RNair]

I am just waiting to find carbon stands, nothing will stop me from using it to make my bike legal.

[bikxsans660]

Chief, its exactly every new comers' dilemma. But Home-work does give the new comer the upper hand, and not flying away queries like nobody's business.

[deepakvrao]

[htedum]

^^ 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?

Rack - check. Mirrors - check.


Edit: Dammit doc!

[bikeyvenky]

Gautham!! An epic post indeed!!

[deepakvrao]

Straight bar, cheap alloy cages and Zipps? Platforms with toe clips, and a cable lock?

Having said all that, I read somewhere that the guy rides a fair amount, as per the LBS which changes his tyres rather frequently.

When I bought my Trek 1.5 from BOTS, I am ashamed to say that I had asked Rohan about a kick stand.

[vkalia]

When I bought my Trek 1.5 from BOTS, I am ashamed to say that I had asked Rohan about a kick stand.

Even in your cycling infancy, your tendency to the Dark Side was making itself known, eh? A kick stand on a 1.5 is a lot less egregious than the horrors you've inflicted on that poor CAAD9.

[pranavnegandhi]

If I ever go to Bangalore again, I'm going to take a wicker basket for Doctor D. It will be useful to hang on front of his new carbon frame for his grocery runs.

.p

[hitanshu]

Minkey,

You're getting yourself an evening of beers from me whenever you land up in Delhi next. This is EPIC.

I've been on 10+ forums - not one forum till date has bothered to cut down on the repetitive newbie queries. Spoonfeeding newbies is religion - telling newbies to use the search function & do their homework seems anathema in most places!!

and I thought I'd done a fair bit when I set up my FAQ http://freerider.in/drupal/General/Cycling-Gyan