Originally Posted by Camilo

My personal soap box: don't buy tires or any bike stuff from Amazon. There's a lot of actual bike shop online sellers with free or very reasonable shipping that are competitive with Amazon prices. Plus they know what they're doing and you can get actual advice by chat or over the phone. Yeah, some of them do sell through Amazon, but I'm just so tired of the crappy fulfillment and business practices of Amazon, I'm starting to get kind of preachy about it. I put together two full bikes about a year ago without buying a single item from Amazon, and did some price and availability comparisons and Amazon didn't offer anything over the real bike sellers, or if there was, it was so minor as to be irrelevant.