Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Request Info on Touring Bikes under $200 Message-ID: <1375@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 17:00:37 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1375 Posted: Wed Aug 7 17:00:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 01:41:36 EDT References: <533@magic.UUCP> Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Distribution: na Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 20 In article <533@magic.UUCP> pmn@magic.UUCP (Paul M. Nauman) writes: > >I am looking for recommendations on touring bikes in the $150-$200 >range. Has anyone out there recently purchased one ? Are you >satisfied with your choice ? What ARE the choices ? I have had >Sekai recommended to me. Any comments ? Please post to the net. Any >responses are appreciated. I recently helped a friend shop for a (relatively inexpensive) touring bike. My opinion, after stopping at 5 stores nearby, was that $250-300 would get you a decent bike. It seemed to me that as the price went higher, you got less benefit per dollar (differences in opinion welcome). She settled on a Sekai 2400, more because they had it in stock with a color she liked than because of any vast superiority to anything else in its price range. I have [ab]used a Sekai 2000 for over 4 years now, and it hasn't given me any problems. Also, they have made a few improvements (e.g. braze-ons) to the line since I bought mine. I guess that's a recommendation... -- - joel "vo" plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster