A brand new bike sure is nice. While it doesn’t exactly have the new car smell, selecting and sizing a new bike is a pretty rewarding process. Even if it takes a little time, and a few trips to the store coupled with some searching on the wwwInterweb, it is rare that a thoughtfully selected bike doesn’t get a good amount of use.
A few good commuter bikes (or bikes that could be used for that purpose) in no particular order:
Breezer Freedom – $550 Giant FCR 3 – $600 Novara Buzz V – $450 Raleigh Roadster – $500
And we could add another half-dozen bikes … but the purpose is just to get an estimate of a realistic price for an entry-level commuter bike that won’t get you completely ridiculed by Bike Snob NYC . The average price is somewhere around $525.
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