Originally Posted by
HerrKaLeun
You are putting yourself in a terrible negotiation position with your time investment.
10 hours, may be 600 miles or more. At over 50ct per mile, more if you have a truck or van, you are in over $300 plus your time. And the bike nay be vaporware or broken. Better buy a new one. Unless you can combine that trip with something else.
+1. Relatively speaking, it's not that expensive a bike. Imagine getting it home only to find it has a latent defect. Another 10 hrs. to return it? Or maybe no returns, then he's out the money and time investment and still has no "dream bike."
Another thing that has me scratching my head is the amount of time spent looking. Two years? Wonder how many hours that took up. To me, time has value. If I wanted something that badly and it was available to me new I wouldn't spend wait 2 years trying to find a relative needle in a haystack.
BTW...OP: How tall are you that you think you need a 62cm LHT? I am 6' 2" and ride a 60cm LHT. I could probably ride a 58cm.