>>2000664Okay look: I am still under the impression that you're making the mistake of 'looking for something special'. You're always chasing a specific and specialised kind of bike, because you heard it does one thing extremely well.
What you, as a bicycle newbie and probably anyone else, really want as your first bike is just that: A bicycle. A normal bicycle. No bells, no whistles, nothing specialized. Something that does everything kind of well. Not a this-bike or that-bike or whatevs.
Since you're getting little practical advice I'll attach
>picrelof what has been my daily for the last 5 years or so. One could argue it has no soul, it's a piece of junk and whatever. I have really nice bikes. But on average I tend to just go for this one every morning. It won't let me down, won't stress me out, it will be ready to go whenever and won't really need maintainance much and I dont feel sorry for it anyways. It was dirt cheap. One could argue all this paradoxically makes me love the little shitter. It could be better, like not have the suspension fork. But that's my point: Just get a bike.
