What kind of used hybrid should I buy with $400? I want to ride on shitty roads in Texas and over to Mexico for errands
>>2076371Can you build a bike from parts or are you a wrenchlet?
Multitrack desu
>>2076373Wrenchet >>2076375Isn't Trek a meme brand
>>2076376>Isn't Trek a meme brandit's a mainstream brand, it's not a meme nor are they particularly amazing, they're the Toyota Camry of bikes
>>2076377Toyota Camrys are cheap and reliable
>>2076381Good, you're following along and can understand metaphors. Maybe you're not completely retarded
>>2076376>Isn't Trek a meme brandYou're a fucking idiot
>>2076384OK well lots of normies ride them so I assumed they were marked up like Apple
>>2076386How are you gonna call other people normies when you come to such moronic conclusions with zero research. You're a fucking normie.
>>2076376>>2076386nah, Spesh is a meme brand. Trek is mostly normal, just overpriced. Specialized would be the apple of bikes>proprietary everything>basically totally user-unserviceable>anything not proprietary is made in chyna third shift slop>rode mostly by retards who are on their first "good" bike>said retards unironically believe that higher price = higher qualityTrek is like buying first party microsoft hardware. it's fine and will behave and be serviceable like any other bike, but you could have gone anywhere else for the same thing for 20% less and the "proprietary" parts are so prolific and change so infrequently that they may as well be their own standard now
>>2076393>it's fine and will behave and be serviceable like any other bike, but you could have gone anywhere else for the same thing for 20% lessAnd which brand would that be.
>>2076396any random chink OEM (who are the ones making shitty shartmart/cambodian tire/harbor fuck/etc bikes)if youve only got 400 bux to spend just get any off the rack BSO, change out the stupid barrel shifters for proper ones, maybe huck some better brakes with longer levers on there. a good Trek (or equivalent brand for your're cuntry) will obviously be better but a good Trek will cost more than 400$.it's pointless to ask for advice on specific used stuff to look for because your market will change day-to-day so even if you get good recommendations, the exact thing recommended might not pop up on Marketplace for months
>>2076397You could absolutely get a trek hybrid from an LBS for $400 if you bring cash and can haggle.
>>2076398true but for 400$ it literally doesn't matter and Trek still has meme tax despite being a perfectly cromulent brand. better to get some 300$ big box store BSO of similar quality and save the other 100$ for amazon upgrades and extra wear parts (it's used, you'll wanna replace the tires sooner than later, tubes are probably a wreck of badly done patches from the last owner, cables are probably all rusty and stretched and shit, etc)
>>2076399Personaly I would just get something used and fix it up but that's why I asked this >>2076373At a $400 as OP I would get a $100 steel hybrid. Put on some fat tires on it for shitty roads, find an old XT or Ultegra derailleur on marketplace to replace what ever low end shit is on there. Kool stop pads. New cheap good KMC chain. Voila an excellent beater bike. To OP, if you're on a budget, you can't afford to be useless with your hands. That's for people with money.
>>2076399>>2076402What about an actual Walmart brand bike? It looks nice in the store
>>2076418I've heard good things about ozark trail. It should work well enough for your purposes.
>>2076418Yeh but make sure you buy it in store and grab the new updated model with a cassete with more gear range. The early ones were a free wheel 14-28. You can tell them apart by the derailleur and tires. The old ones have a red jockey wheel and 700c 40 tires. The new ones are 45s. With models will be sitting on the racks in store.
>>2076516Also the old one has a steel seat post like in your pic and the new one is alloy.
>BrandsBig 3 are Giant, Trek, Specialized. There's a brand name tax, and avoid proprietary shit from them.Any bike that has a world tour team will have a price boost. >Meme Brand: >Canondale, Bianchi, Pinarello. They also make very good bikes, but know what the fuck you're buying. >>2076418>>2076430Walmart assembly is ass until proven otherwise.
>general brand name recommendations
>>2076601The brand name on the frame doesn't matter. Focus on the brand name and tier on the components ,with the edge case of weird propietary shit, which you shouldn't get too much of at this level, minus BSOs. . Most frames are made by Kinesis, Merrida or Giant regardless of brand anyways.
>>2076598>Walmart assembly is ass until proven otherwise.Buy a fucking wrench.
>>2076604OP said he's a wrenchlet, and if you're going to go that route, you might as well go full mail order, for probably less.
>>2076598>proprietaryYou mean actually innovative free market parts that aren't shackled by chinese OEMs?
>>2076605>You might as well go full mail order, for probably less.This and fully this, it is literally insane to expect someone to buy a bicycle and then have to take it to a fully stocked garage just to get the head tube angle correct. Not everyone can weld and it's unreasonable to have to modify your bike just so it fits you at all.
>>2076610No. You want Shimano's and maybe SRAM's innovation and maybe chinese OEMs that are blindly copying them. A chinese flying pigeon is also a bad idea., Check out the c-dale lefty fork in previous pic for what you don't want, particularly for someone like OP at the shitheap hybrid level with no wrenching ability..
Giant Escape Disc 4
