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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Podcast: The Pros and Cons of Buying a Mountain Bike Online

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of buying a mountain bike online. We talk strategies for test riding bikes and share our experiences with assembling bikes delivered directly. Also, we touch on the idea of fully custom bike builds and the risks of buying mountain bikes through crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.1

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0:11.5

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0:16.1

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0:21.6

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0:24.9

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0:28.7

and prize teas and Cs apply.

0:32.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:35.9

Today it's me, Jeff, and Aaron and greg and we're going to be talking a bit

0:39.9

about buying mountain bikes online we posted a series of articles last week about different bikes that are

0:47.0

being sold online and we wanted to talk a little bit more in depth about some of the issues with buying

0:52.5

mountain bikes online so one of the first sort of complaints or issues about some of the issues with buying mountain bikes online. So one of the first

0:54.8

sort of complaints or issues that some of our readers brought up about buying bikes online is that

1:01.3

it's not always easy to get the bike set up. Not everybody knows how to assemble a bike, and that's

1:08.3

a sort of valuable service that bike shops are providing.

1:12.4

So what do you guys think about setting up your own bike?

1:15.3

I know a lot of the bikes that we get in for review come in a box.

1:19.8

You know, they're shipped directly to us and we usually set those up.

1:23.2

So what's been your experience with having a bike shipped directly to you?

1:27.8

Most bikes are fully assembled at a assembly factory, you know, typically overseas,

1:34.5

and then they're semi-disassembled to be shipped off to your local bike shop.

1:39.7

So generally, you know, most of the specialized jobs are already handled.

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