hellerphant
Maximum Pace
- Mar 23, 2022
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So now that I'm close to being wire free, and can get back on a bike I've started looking at new bike options. My wife doesn't want me to ride the bike I had the accident on, so I'm looking at a few months of saving, and then spending roughly 200,000ish.
I narrowed my choices down to a Bianchi Via Nirone 7 105, and a Cannondale Synapse 2 Sora. But looking at Y's Road and other places, there are no Bianchi's in my price range available until March next year, and I do not want to be off the road that long.
I kinda have two options. I can buy something with Sora. My concerns here are that everyone on reddit screams at you for not getting a 105 and says they are so much better, and it only has 9 gears. I'm not super fit, and I won't be racing, but will I regret not having a few half-steps once I do get stronger? I'm going to be hitting 100km + rides pretty regularly, and I just worry about hills.
If the Sora will be fine, then I might go the Cannondale Synapse 2, or a CAAD13. I like the Bianchi but they seem really hard to actually get a hold of right now, and I like the looks of the Cannondales quite a bit too.
The other option is I just watch Buychari and wait for a nice 105 Synapse, or a Bianchi and jump on it. I'd like a new bike, but Buychari seem to have decent bikes and at least it's from a store and I don't need to deal with Mercari stuff.
Spewing that my surgery cost me so much as there is a GORGEOUS Synapse on Buychari right now for a decent price, but I just don't have the money as my wife lost her job right after and I wasn't able to work for a while.
Anyways, it's good to be back, and advice would be appreciated.
I narrowed my choices down to a Bianchi Via Nirone 7 105, and a Cannondale Synapse 2 Sora. But looking at Y's Road and other places, there are no Bianchi's in my price range available until March next year, and I do not want to be off the road that long.
I kinda have two options. I can buy something with Sora. My concerns here are that everyone on reddit screams at you for not getting a 105 and says they are so much better, and it only has 9 gears. I'm not super fit, and I won't be racing, but will I regret not having a few half-steps once I do get stronger? I'm going to be hitting 100km + rides pretty regularly, and I just worry about hills.
If the Sora will be fine, then I might go the Cannondale Synapse 2, or a CAAD13. I like the Bianchi but they seem really hard to actually get a hold of right now, and I like the looks of the Cannondales quite a bit too.
The other option is I just watch Buychari and wait for a nice 105 Synapse, or a Bianchi and jump on it. I'd like a new bike, but Buychari seem to have decent bikes and at least it's from a store and I don't need to deal with Mercari stuff.
Spewing that my surgery cost me so much as there is a GORGEOUS Synapse on Buychari right now for a decent price, but I just don't have the money as my wife lost her job right after and I wasn't able to work for a while.
Anyways, it's good to be back, and advice would be appreciated.