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A great Start. After a stressful day of going around with an Avid cyclist, trying to find a good road bike to fit my budget, we gave up on going to all the local cycle stores and took our hunt online. We came across this bike and my friend was hesitant with giving Schwinn Prelude Mens Road Bike the o.k, however it turned out to be a good call. I’m around 5′10 200 lbs, and the bike fits me great, though as previously stated the handle bars are a bit iffy, but you get used to it pretty quick. After riding about a year I’m now ready to upgrade, but it’s definitely a great bike for any starter. I’ve put at least 500 miles on it and I stress at least, and its held up great.

Save some grief — replace the rubber before riding. It’s a great bike for the price, but I would highly recommend going to a bike shop and getting the rim strips and tubes replaced. These two components are of poor quality from my experience:

1. As soon as I inflated the tires to the proper pressure, one of the tubes popped before I even started riding.

2. After a hundred miles of riding or so, the rim strip failed, which caused the tube to have pressure points all over the inner part of the wheel. This is NOT good because these tires are inflated to 100psi. While I was fortunate enough to not have this issue on the road, I did get a rude awakening at around 4 AM one morning as I heard a sudden explosion of air. Diagnosing this issue caused a lot of grief as well because I would put in a new tube, and it would pop the moment I go to remount the tire.

These two repairs/upgrades should cost you approximately ten dollars if you can do it yourself.

Great Beginner Bike. Great Bike for beginner, best value on the market and light weight. strongest recommend to all bike beginner.

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