I recommend ATA because the shop will work with you to address your goals as a cyclist, work within your budget, and it offers an expertise on fit and technical knowledge that I have not found elsewhere. It has an immense inventory of frames and other parts , and ATA can build you a bike that you can ride for a long time. At ATA, the personnel listen and work with you, and it does not occur that on the day you go to the shop the good mechanic is out that day.\r
\r
A serious and strong cyclist recommended ATA to me when I started biking as a committed recreational cyclist. Husam and the rest of the crew at ATA took steps with my old bike to help the fit of the bike as well as improve my power and speed short of replacing the bike, all within my budget of what I could afford at the time. But the bike did not fit me as it should, and a too long top tube cannot be shortened. ATA worked with me to replace what I could on the bike to improve power and speed while at the same time making sure that I could move those parts to a new frame that would fit me. At last the day came that I purchased a new frame, fitted to me precisely and the quality parts purchased from ATA moved to the new frame. The new bike has a completely different feel to it, and it moves like a dream. \r
\r
more