>>1218217if you want good value for money, do that.
What you should never do is order an expensive mail order bike, because it doesn't perform much better than the cheaper mail order bike and is just as lacking in sexiness and swag as the cheaper one.
If you however spend $5000 on a colnago or a pinarello, you get a bike that performs just as well as everything else but is also swag and sexy as hell.