Well, after scouring Craigslist for weeks and not finding anything decent for the price, I ended up getting a new one - a 2010 GT Transeo 2.0. This is actually an early birthday gift from my wonderful wife.
I only put it together last night and haven't ridden it yet. The rims need a little bit of truing and I have to make some adjustments to the rear brake so that the wheel rotates more freely.
All in all, it looks great to me. Maybe some of the components aren't high end, but it's way above and beyond anything I have ever owned before so I'm thrilled. It also looks better made and with slightly better components than the Diamondback Insight 2 I was considering earlier.
Now two questions:
1. The rear tire appears to have been installed backwards. The tread pattern faces the opposite way as on the front. The Front/Rear arrows on the tire point in the wrong direction. How important is this on a casually ridden bicycle? Should I raise a stink with Performance Bikes and have them redo it or should I let it be?
2. There is quite a bit of ruckus (for the lack of a scientific word) when I move the crank backwards. A lot more than any other crank I've seen or owned. I can try to record the sound as it's hard to describe - kind of like a loud clickety-clack sound. Any ideas what it could be? All the deraileurs appear to be aligned fine and the chain moves very smoothly in both directions. The chain/deraileurs were already assembled in the box - I didn't need to touch anything.
Thanks!
I only put it together last night and haven't ridden it yet. The rims need a little bit of truing and I have to make some adjustments to the rear brake so that the wheel rotates more freely.
All in all, it looks great to me. Maybe some of the components aren't high end, but it's way above and beyond anything I have ever owned before so I'm thrilled. It also looks better made and with slightly better components than the Diamondback Insight 2 I was considering earlier.
Now two questions:
1. The rear tire appears to have been installed backwards. The tread pattern faces the opposite way as on the front. The Front/Rear arrows on the tire point in the wrong direction. How important is this on a casually ridden bicycle? Should I raise a stink with Performance Bikes and have them redo it or should I let it be?
2. There is quite a bit of ruckus (for the lack of a scientific word) when I move the crank backwards. A lot more than any other crank I've seen or owned. I can try to record the sound as it's hard to describe - kind of like a loud clickety-clack sound. Any ideas what it could be? All the deraileurs appear to be aligned fine and the chain moves very smoothly in both directions. The chain/deraileurs were already assembled in the box - I didn't need to touch anything.
Thanks!