@woodcutter Hilly, rough, smooth, Crossing never ending rail road tracks? Mostly smooth, some gentle hills, no peloton separating hills (OK, maybe one or two but will not be traveled everyday), very few old style un-plated railroad crossings.
@Unbroken I would absolutely not go for the magna or huffy. Oops, using a Magna now; the heavy as the sinking Titanic bike.
@answerjill Are you sure that you need at least 18? OH YEAH! Unless the bike is super light, (which will make it super expensive), I need as much help as I can. People might say 52 is young but my body rebels when I tell it we are doing things my mind remembers it doing 15 years ago, and still thinks it can be done. It would be nice to be able to have a real expensive light bike that had a frame that only weighs 12lb round about, but I would feel I had to hire and armed guard because there are too many scurrilous bike thieves around here.
@ARE_you_kidding_me For around town you don’t really need suspension. It’s actually better if you don’t have it for urban riding. If I don’t have a cushion “Fat Boy” seat those curb transitions, when I am forced to use the sidewalk are not as smooth as they use to be. After a mile on the bike, and certainly if I use it to make a day’s worth of trips a couple of miles apart or less, I feel as if I just got off a mule going to the bottom of the Grand Canyon—when I have never rode a mule before. Full suspension lessens the beating my old bones take from the road.
@jaytkay I hope you mean $150 for a used bike. Don’t buy a $150 new bike. I was actually considering all sources; auction, new, used, Craigslist, liquidation sale, going out of business sale, warehouse sales, estate sales, everything.