My long-time friend and blog boss Seth W wrote a little e-book for which I did a mostly-adequate layout job, and you can download it for free. It’s called How to Buy Your First Bike, where he finally sticks it to Gettier’s paradox. Just kidding. He just advises us on the best way to hand payment to a shop salesman. Nah, really…it deals with all of that and what to do and what not to do when buying your first bike. It doesn’t cover, though, if you’re buying someone else’s first bike. I have thrashed him soundly for this oversight.
Seth kinda knows what he’s talking about since he’s cycling his butt around America, and it matters enough that Ars Technica tweeted about How. He’ll be stopping my way soon, whereupon he will receive another sound thrashing for good measure.