Micargi Roasca Men's City Bikes?
07-23-21, 01:38 PM
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Micargi Roasca Men's City Bikes?
Hey guys, I just discovered Micargi Bicycles, and I was wondering if they produce quality merchandise (I'm wanting to live car-free), or would I be throwing my money away?
07-23-21, 02:00 PM
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The road bike collection on their site shows a ridden and used older Fuji as the picture to click on for road bikes...and then you go to a page with half the links missing pics and all the links offering low/entry level bikes.
Cant say that would be much of a confidence booster for me.
OP- which city bike are you considering and whats it cost?
Cant say that would be much of a confidence booster for me.
OP- which city bike are you considering and whats it cost?
07-23-21, 08:17 PM
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I have a Micargi road bike (an Avant), and it's decent. It's basically a Giant AnyRoad with components one level down (Claris vs. Sora).
Micargi is headquartered in Southern California, and that's where you see people riding their bikes, at least in the U.S. I've never seen a Micargi outside of the Southland. They don't have high-end bikes in their lineup ... not yet, anyway, but it appears they are greatly expanding their U.S. offerings, so some more mid-level bikes might appear. They were known mostly for fixies and cruisers in the 2010s. Interestingly, they offer an old-school steel road bike in their lineup, the Classic (again, by no means high-end).
Looking at the Roasca, it appears to be a stylish city bike, but not a bike I would grab for a 25-mile ride, let alone tour on.
Micargi is headquartered in Southern California, and that's where you see people riding their bikes, at least in the U.S. I've never seen a Micargi outside of the Southland. They don't have high-end bikes in their lineup ... not yet, anyway, but it appears they are greatly expanding their U.S. offerings, so some more mid-level bikes might appear. They were known mostly for fixies and cruisers in the 2010s. Interestingly, they offer an old-school steel road bike in their lineup, the Classic (again, by no means high-end).
Looking at the Roasca, it appears to be a stylish city bike, but not a bike I would grab for a 25-mile ride, let alone tour on.
07-23-21, 09:58 PM
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They look like maybe a small tiny notch above Wally-Mart close to a low quality Schwinn Admiral but with some barely nicer parts.
If you are trying to live car free a cheap bike with Tourney level components is not the way to go at all. 105 or Deore level makes some sense but lower than that probably isn't ideal if you want reliability which as a car free cyclist you would want. Go with quality brands people have heard of and that have stores that sell them in your locality and go for something that works well for you and will be reliable.
If you are trying to live car free a cheap bike with Tourney level components is not the way to go at all. 105 or Deore level makes some sense but lower than that probably isn't ideal if you want reliability which as a car free cyclist you would want. Go with quality brands people have heard of and that have stores that sell them in your locality and go for something that works well for you and will be reliable.
07-28-21, 05:19 PM
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Unless they've way, way upped their game in the last decade, a Micargi is not a bicycle. Every Micargi I've ever seen made a WalMart Mongoose look like a Colnago.
Just walk away... because if you ride away on a Micargi, you're gonna be walking anyway.
--Shannon
Just walk away... because if you ride away on a Micargi, you're gonna be walking anyway.
--Shannon
