Mendham Bikes has the Giordano Bicycles 700C Trieste Gravel Bike (Grey, Small 5'4" - 5'8") on sale for $269.99 - $151.19 when you apply discount code
GRAVELGRINDER via checkout =
$118.80.
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Product Details:
- The 700c Giordano Trieste gravel bike is ideal for riders looking for a high quality, smartly equipped adventure bike made for miles of off and on road enjoyment.
- Built around a lightweight chromoly steel frame / fork and combined with 30mm wide tires between you and the less traveled road, you'll be amazed with the ultra-smooth ride quality.
- Max weight: 275-lbs
- Bike Weight: 29-lbs
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It's not that it's terrible exactly. It's that there's almost no scenario where you won't soon regret the purchase. The parts are complex like quality parts, and come with a maintenance burden to match, which is beyond what almost anyone that buys a bike at this price point is willing to endure.
Maintaining it isn't exactly hard, but requires time, knowledge, and a few specialized tools and bikes that aren't ridden regularly require nearly as much work as bikes ridden constantly. So you end up with two scenarios:
- You don't want an expensive bike because you don't ride much. So the ratio of maintenance time to ride time ends up being tilted to unpleasant maintenance work,
- You ride a lot, so the maintenance isn't as large of a percentage of your time. But if you ride a lot you likely value higher quality, and you're not shopping this anyway.
Most folks looking for a bike to pedal around the neighborhood, or lock up on campus, are better served by something less complex like an old friction shifted mountain bike or even a simple beach cruiser.
Economics is a wonderful thing when there is a product and price for many entry points to consumers. Not everyone is going to go shopping for Ultregra parts just because.
That's like me telling you to buy a 1985 porsche 944 for $30k when you're looking at a $15k 2020 honda civic because you need to take your kids to school. Makes absolutely zero sense without context.
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That's like me telling you to buy a 1985 porsche 944 for $30k when you're looking at a $15k 2020 honda civic because you need to take your kids to school. Makes absolutely zero sense without context.
You do you man, clearly you don't want to hear other case scenarios and honestly that's fine by me.
You do you man, clearly you don't want to hear other case scenarios and honestly that's fine by me.
They add $40 of "optional" shipping insurance and push you directly to checkout, with no way to edit the order unless you click back out to cart. The insurance also isn't even listed as a normal item but hides on the bottom right as a weird toggle, super annoying.
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