Timeline for Help a new biker with bad fitness to become a bike commuter
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| Jan 19, 2012 at 3:30 | vote | accept | coderbean | ||
| Jan 18, 2012 at 19:10 | comment | added | Stephen Touset | At that price range, there's going to be a virtually limitless number of older bikes to choose from. Find one that fits you and seems to be in good repair (working brakes, no rust, shifts cleanly). | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 18:37 | vote | accept | coderbean | ||
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 18:37 | comment | added | coderbean | Thanks for the response! Can you please recommend few bikes which can come with-in 100-200$ range? | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 14:13 | comment | added | Unsliced | The other thing about CraigsList and their ilk is to try to get a view of the provenance: if it looks to good to be true, it's probably stolen. | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 12:50 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | The only trick is recognizing a decent bike when you see one -- there probably is a thread around here on that topic, otherwise someone should start one, especially targeted toward separating plain junk from serviceable inexpensive bikes. | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 12:30 | history | answered | Stephen Touset | CC BY-SA 3.0 |