First road bike under 1500
Originally Posted by
InvertedMP
So I have a hybrid that I love (C’dale Quick 5) and I am looking at getting my first road bike. Not interested in competing or doing anything crazy.
I would love to buy something I could modify and upgrade in the future, but that is a decent base to start with. What should I be looking at?
From my own personal experience I have gone from a high end carbon fiber road bike to a heavy duty hybrid, so here's my specific suggestion for your stated price FWIW:
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
"Help with choosing a bike."
...Now here’s where I’m coming from. I have described myself as a decades-long, year-round lifestyle cyclist, and my favored bike is a high-end carbon fiber bike costing thousands of dollars..
I also have a aluminum beater road bike costing about $1500, and for me that was a minimal road bike, to be used in bad weather.
FWIW, I also have a Giant Escape hybrid bike that I recently bought for rehabilitation, because I was having trouble with my neck and shoulders riding the drop bars.
That bike cost about $600, and IMO was a good value as an all-round bike...
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
"Who's Completely Happy with Their Bike"
... I'm very happy with my Specialized S-Works for dry weather riding, but my Cannondale Mountain bike was pretty heavy and cumbersome as a Wet/Winter beater. So I recently bought a Specialized Diverge Elite aluminum bike as a wet weather beater, and it rides nearly as nicely as the S-Works, so I'm very happy with the Diverge.
...I liken my three bikes to a Lamborghini, a Humvee, and a Lexus [the Diverge]. 
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
...The new hybrid is a Buick
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Last edited by Jim from Boston; 03-20-20 at 04:12 AM.