Bike Hunting

I just realized that I told you all that I got a bike but didn't tell you how I came to get the bike I got. We looked around for a long while and decided that I was going to get a Jamis Ventura Sport. It's the lowest price of the higher end bikes and I thought it would be perfect for what I was going to use it for. So we went to the bike shop and ordered one since they didnt' have any my size. They said it would take about 7 days. I called back a couple times between 10 and 14 days and they just said that my bike hadn't come in yet. So I waited and finally after about 2 1/2 weeks I called them back and they said that the company had sent them a different bike not the one I ordered. He said that they were out of the bike that I wanted. So I asked what is compareable to the Jamis Ventura Sport for around the same price. He said that a Satellite would be a compareable bike. I said ok and ordered it. So I started doing a little more research on the bike and come to find out it's a steel bike. The one I wanted was Aluminum and there is a weight difference between steel and aluminum bikes. Finally I went, after more research, to a bike shop closer to my house and bought a Giant OCR3 for about 100.00 more than I originally wanted to spend. My giant has a couple features that are better than the Jamis Ventura Sport anyways, like it has a carbon fiber fork. Carbon is extremely light. Anyways I'm finally a month and a half later getting phone calls saying that my Satellite bike is in. After a month and a half I don't want it!! Anyways. In case you were interested that is the bike story.