bike shopping
Sun Nov 2 23:30:49 EST 2014
The idea of spending $4,000+ on a new bike has been percolating for a couple of weeks. (I think my potential 1st choice went from $4,000 to $4,500 yesterday, if my reading of conflicting numbers on their website is correct. But I was not about to rush to spend $4K by the end of the week when I hadn't even seen, let alone tried out, the product - nor any of its competitors.) It's twice what I was expecting to spend. On the other hand, if my next car also lasts 20+ years because I spend more time biking than driving, it looks more like money well spent. (And if I'm still cycling all over town in my 80s, I'll have been doing more for my health and the environment than just amortizing my car.)HP Velotechnik » Grasshopper fx (recumbent)
HP Velotechnik » Streetmachine Gte (recumbent)
AZUB BIKE » MAX
AZUB BIKE » IBEX
Flux-bikes » S 800
Flux-bikes » S 900
Flux-bikes » SMax
Optima Recumbents » Falcon
Nazca Ligfietsen » Pioneer
Nazca Ligfietsen » Gaucho
Nazca Ligfietsen » Fiero
M5 Recumbents » 26/26 and 26/20 low bar
Performer Bikes » Goal-26X USS
Toxy Liegerad GmbH » TOXY-TT - Silver Spo®t-light.
Toxy Liegerad GmbH » TOXY-LT - Allround Talent.
[dead links updated 2018/Jan/06]
Some of these are going to be eliminated because of their lack of US dealerships. If I can't get a ride on something from the manufacturer similar enough to what I think I want to buy, I can't spend that kind of money. (Dissatisfaction after purchase is probably why my Vision R40 was for sale with so little use.) The only US Nazca dealer is in California. Flux bikes doesn't even have an English-translation website. I don't know whether the others translate primarily for UK or US sales, but some do have US$ price lists (factoring in shipping and duties).
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The idea of spending $4,000+ on a new bike has been percolating for a couple of weeks. (I think my potential 1st choice went from $4,000 to $4,500 yesterday, if my reading of conflicting numbers on their website is correct. But I was not about to rush to spend $4K by the end of the week when I hadn't even seen, let alone tried out, the product - nor any of its competitors.) It's twice what I was expecting to spend. On the other hand, if my next car also lasts 20+ years because I spend more time biking than driving, it looks more like money well spent. (And if I'm still cycling all over town in my 80s, I'll have been doing more for my health and the environment than just amortizing my car.)HP Velotechnik » Grasshopper fx (recumbent)
HP Velotechnik » Streetmachine Gte (recumbent)
AZUB BIKE » MAX
AZUB BIKE » IBEX
Flux-bikes » S 800
Flux-bikes » S 900
Flux-bikes » SMax
Optima Recumbents » Falcon
Nazca Ligfietsen » Pioneer
Nazca Ligfietsen » Gaucho
Nazca Ligfietsen » Fiero
M5 Recumbents » 26/26 and 26/20 low bar
Performer Bikes » Goal-26X USS
Toxy Liegerad GmbH » TOXY-TT - Silver Spo®t-light.
Toxy Liegerad GmbH » TOXY-LT - Allround Talent.
[dead links updated 2018/Jan/06]
Some of these are going to be eliminated because of their lack of US dealerships. If I can't get a ride on something from the manufacturer similar enough to what I think I want to buy, I can't spend that kind of money. (Dissatisfaction after purchase is probably why my Vision R40 was for sale with so little use.) The only US Nazca dealer is in California. Flux bikes doesn't even have an English-translation website. I don't know whether the others translate primarily for UK or US sales, but some do have US$ price lists (factoring in shipping and duties).
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/707261.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]