Good timing for this thread. I’m picking up a cheap, albeit quite old, road bike tomorrow. The 4 mile walk to work (and back) is wearing a little thin. Other than that, I will derive no joy from using it.
I got a new one for £160 and its pretty shite. Got scared off buying second hand by all the weirdos who pretend that buying a bike is the most important decision of your life (also I had no job at the time and didn’t wanna risk it)
Then I regret not starting this thread earlier. I would imagine the “other” thread seemed like an intimidating place with all it’s talk of “groupsets” (not a real thing) and “carbon” (bikes made out of pencil lead? right!).
If only there were a friendly thread where we could have helped you through that difficult. Truly I am sorry.