How to Choose a New Bike
Ready to find the perfect new bike? Congrats! Bike shopping is exciting. But it can also be overwhelming, especially if you’re not entirely sure what you’re looking for. With so many different brands, styles and sizes out there, plus all the technical specs and marketing jargon, it’s easy to get sucked into endless hours of online bike reviews and abstract comparison shopping. Before the internet, most bike hunts relied on trial and error: show up at your local bike shop, ride some bikes…and some more bikes…aaaaand more bikes at a different shop…and then maybe circle back to the first shop, and on and on. These days a bike hunt usually begins online. The web is a great resource for scanning all the offerings at a glanceand can help you start to zero in on what you’re after, but how a bike feels on the road is an X factor that no amount of research can replicate. But site after site after site–or ride after ride after ride–can be time-consuming and exhausting. That’s why we do it differ