>it's hard to buy a bad bike in any travel category these days.
My trick for narrowing the field is to assemble a list of 'mustn't haves'. For me, trunnion, short insert depths and yoke-driven shocks can quickly weed out otherwise exciting options. Through-headset cables and bad internal routing can be fixed by stick on guides.
Your own list will vary, but the idea can release you from analysis paralysis.
Sept. 26, 2023, 12:13 a.m. - Velocipedestrian
>it's hard to buy a bad bike in any travel category these days. My trick for narrowing the field is to assemble a list of 'mustn't haves'. For me, trunnion, short insert depths and yoke-driven shocks can quickly weed out otherwise exciting options. Through-headset cables and bad internal routing can be fixed by stick on guides. Your own list will vary, but the idea can release you from analysis paralysis.