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Should I buy that bike?
Tell us how you ride — five minutes, no account. We scout the live market for your region and come back with 2–3 honest picks: real prices, head-to-head comparisons, geometry-backed fit, and exactly where to buy.
105USDlaunch price
Hi, I’m Nick. I built maibike to look after my bikes — and Choosebike because friends kept asking the same question: which one should I actually buy? This is the answer I’d give you over coffee, backed by live market research.
We are completely independent. No affiliation with any bike manufacturer, no affiliate links, no sponsored placements — your USD 5 is our only revenue, so the advice answers to you alone.
1 · Your riding
Type of bike, the terrain you actually ride, budget, inseam — the questions a good shop would ask.
2 · Live research
We search the current market in your region: what's in stock, what it really costs, what reviewers measured.
3 · The verdict
2–3 picks with the reasoning shown: why this one, what beats it, the honest money take, your size.
Pick your advisor
Nick's take
The house voice. Pragmatic about money, romantic about riding.
The race engineer
Geometry charts, test data and watts. No poetry.
The shop veteran
Thirty years at the workstand. Durability, standards, who'll fix it.
The value hunter
Maximum bike per franc. Outlet pages and last year's paint.
What a pick looks like
Rose Shave (105 Di2 build)
from ~€3,600“You ranked aero first, fun second — this is the rare bike that doesn’t make you trade one for the other. Rose says the Shave is 4.7% more aerodynamic and up to 10% lighter than the X-Lite it replaces, and the base build is deliberately the ‘race comfort’ version…”
From a real run · shortened
- · The full wizard is free — you pay only to run the research
- · Your advice lives at a permalink, yours for good
- · If the run fails, you keep a retry on us
- · Independent — no manufacturer money, ever