If you have been considering purchasing a mountain bike, then you likely have experienced a case of sticker shock during your early searches on mountain bike prices.  One expects a fairly broad range of pricing between the many manufacturers due to the the seemingly endless number of variations of features, quality of mountain bike parts workmanship, country of manufacture, primary use, and many other variables in the unit cost price determination. One thing that might have you scratching your head about is how the price of the exact same make and model can vary by four or five hundred dollars from one online retailer to another.  In many purchase decisions, this is a fairly simple decision – go for the lowest price. Well, this no brainer may be the way to go for toilet paper or perhaps your daughter’s first little bike with training wheels, but this is not how one should decide where to buy his/her Airborne mountain bike.

But keep two things in mind, however. First, If you get bored of the driveway and you really get the bug to get dirty, the Wal-mart Mongoose mountain bike look-alike will likely have problems withstanding the rigors of an creek bed so be sure to take your GPS with you. Second, quality holds its value. If you make the decision to buy a high quality bike for, let’s say, $1,500 and then after a couple of seasons decide this sport isn’t your cup of tea, you will easily recoup a major portion of your buy-in since there is always someone ready to move up from their neighbor’s yard.