Bicycles

Trek, cannondale, specialized all make decent bikes. Trek makes some lower end junk, too, I think.

Settle down guy

Trek is good stuff- I have ridden a Trek road bike (up to 50 miles at a lick) for the last 10 years.

It’s dated now- but it still gets the job done and everything has held up well.

Bikes tend to get these boutique followings- Trek isn’t as shiny as it once was before Lance Armstrong had his fall from grace. But it is a good American company if you like mom and apple pie stuff.

Right now? The one you can buy. Covid has wiped bike stock out from $100 Walmart bikes to $15,000 hyper-bikes.

Honestly for a commuter (still need to narrow down more specifics) I would suggest BikesDirect. Even their lower end bikes use solid name brand components. Thats not useful now since they basically have no bikes for sale unless you are super tall or super short then they may have one or two in stock.

For a lower end bike the key is the quality of the components.

A few years ago I picked up a relatively new Diamond Back mountain bike.. I think I paid $175..Damn thing cost $600 new..It is a great bike...It might have been stolen for all I know...

Please fix the thread title… The question in your post would make a perfect thread title

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Love my Trek. Great bikes. You get what you pay for, so if it's something you want to stick with, I'd pay a little more. My bike is a carbon frame, so it's a little more expensive ($600), but you can certainly get a good $4-500 model Trek

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Yeah Sorry dude trek doesn’t have a $400 bike and surely no such thing as a $600 carbon bike

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I can't remember the model, but it's a hybrid bike. I've had it for 4 years. Thing only weighs 13 pounds or so. But from what I remember it was somewhere between $600-800

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Yeah, no. I have road bikes that cost from 5 to 12 times that and none of them are under 14 pounds. Getting under 15 is not too hard but under 14 is starting to really pump the price up.

I am what's known as a weight weenie I can tell you to the gram what every individual component on every bike I have weighs and you simply can't build a hybrid near that weight unless you used some really exotic parts. I will go out on a limb and say Trek has never made a carbon frame bike that sold for $600 or even $800.


ETA Trek's current cheapest carbon frame hybrid ($1700)is the FX Sport Carbon 4 and it weighs 21.06 pounds in size medium. The lightest hybrid they currently sell is the FX Sport 6 and weighs 20.5 pounds in medium and costs $2100.