DouglasR
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Hi guys, my name’s Douglasr and I hate money.
On top of recently blowing most of my spare scratch on winter camping gear, fine French skis and a Finnish rifle, I’m thinking about saying yolo for the second to last time in my life (still need a packraft) and investing in a new mountain bike.
If I can survive like 13 more days of work and my 2nd covid vacc I should be in the Denver area to send steamboat/copper the 1st week of March and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for bike shops and or bike models to check out in that general area, including Denver
I’m looking for a bike that would work for like 1500 +\- road miles a year and maybe 500 or less of Illinois trail miles.
A good Saturday on the trail is 20mi, 2000ft of elevation gain.
I’ve been looking at full suspension because I’m tired of getting smoked by old dads.
Does it sound ridiculous to say that if I’m not gonna go full suspension, get another hard tail and limit myself to just Illinois trail riding that I’m leaning toward just getting a $500 diamondback from dicks?
For a budget, I’m gonna throw out a big number here and say $4k. (My right knee almost hurts, thinking about limiting high impact hammering so I can ski/hike as long as possible)
But with that in mind I just got 5 years of like no maintenance out of a $500 trek so this thing needs to be smooth AF, capable of going out west and hopefully last a little longer if I actually try to take care of it and don’t just pop it apart and chuck the pieces in the bed of my truck, spray wd-40 on it and mash the pedals.
is this a good time to be looking for a bike?
Are they like skis?
There are some crazy freaking sales on skis through the spring/summer and I would hate to miss out on any deals like that on a bike.
@neffa3 I know in the maintenance post I made you’d mentioned used bikes.
should I be scouring mountain town Craigslist’s?
I’m just get scared of buying a used one I won’t be able to see that was treated like my trek.
@rwc101 Thank you for the info in the maintenance post. Any other thoughts on full suspension entry level bikes?
@JLS @LuketheDog
Any ideas?
On top of recently blowing most of my spare scratch on winter camping gear, fine French skis and a Finnish rifle, I’m thinking about saying yolo for the second to last time in my life (still need a packraft) and investing in a new mountain bike.
If I can survive like 13 more days of work and my 2nd covid vacc I should be in the Denver area to send steamboat/copper the 1st week of March and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for bike shops and or bike models to check out in that general area, including Denver
I’m looking for a bike that would work for like 1500 +\- road miles a year and maybe 500 or less of Illinois trail miles.
A good Saturday on the trail is 20mi, 2000ft of elevation gain.
I’ve been looking at full suspension because I’m tired of getting smoked by old dads.
Does it sound ridiculous to say that if I’m not gonna go full suspension, get another hard tail and limit myself to just Illinois trail riding that I’m leaning toward just getting a $500 diamondback from dicks?
For a budget, I’m gonna throw out a big number here and say $4k. (My right knee almost hurts, thinking about limiting high impact hammering so I can ski/hike as long as possible)
But with that in mind I just got 5 years of like no maintenance out of a $500 trek so this thing needs to be smooth AF, capable of going out west and hopefully last a little longer if I actually try to take care of it and don’t just pop it apart and chuck the pieces in the bed of my truck, spray wd-40 on it and mash the pedals.
is this a good time to be looking for a bike?
Are they like skis?
There are some crazy freaking sales on skis through the spring/summer and I would hate to miss out on any deals like that on a bike.
@neffa3 I know in the maintenance post I made you’d mentioned used bikes.
should I be scouring mountain town Craigslist’s?
I’m just get scared of buying a used one I won’t be able to see that was treated like my trek.
@rwc101 Thank you for the info in the maintenance post. Any other thoughts on full suspension entry level bikes?
@JLS @LuketheDog
Any ideas?
) that are always wanting to upgrade and unloading an almost new bike. The next small town up from ours is kinda like that, same with my hometown.
