I was looking for a Road Bike for my son. Looking around in local bike store, their price seems too high even for a no name bike. Came across this bike and it seems to fit my son's needs. Receive bike in good condition ... nice wheel & spokes. Have to give credit to Schwinn for double boxing the bike. Assembly was easy and took me about 1/2 hr to get it done. All parts in good working condition. Bike is light weight ... less than 27 lbs. It is not Carbon as listed in the Bike title. Kind of misleading on the description. It overall Aluminum frame but light enough. Whether it is wrapped in Carbon I don't really know. Also, the Top Bar is not slanted. It is flat horizontally (on the website, it looks slanted a little). The bike rides smooth. Gear is easy to change from the STI shifter on the brake. Some important size measurement to know that I do not find it on the website :

Center of the bottom bracket to the top of the seat tube : 56cm
Stand-over height : 77 1/2... Read more

I must say, I have never bought a Schwinn bike before but I was quite pleased with the Varsity bike. Let me start out buy saying that this is a 300.00 bike, not a 500 or 600 bike. The components you receive on the bike from the Shimano line are the shifters and the rear derailer. You get a aftermarket crankset from Samox components and brakes from promax that stop the bike fairly well. After you do a fair bit of research you will find that you can buy your brakes and crank set for a whopping 60.00 tops.In order to get a bike like this in the 300 range you have cut somewhere, and that somewhere is in the components. The bike is not made here but what things are today. It is very well constructed and rides nice.You could upgrade to a better seat as the factory one is okay but i can find more comfortable ones out there. Those of you that are not familiar with the integrated road shifters that are built into the brakes is something you have to get use to. I did not have trouble figuring... Read more

This is my first road bike. So far I've only taken it for one 25 mile trip, but I'm happy because I'm not passed by everyone on the trail with a road bike anymore. I now have to do more riding and train for the races I want to enter next year.

The biggest concern that I had buying this product was whether it was going to be the right size. I'm 5'5.5 and was afraid the frame would be too large. The box said 28 in and 128L X 18W X 71H. After taking an inseem measurement of myself I discovered that my inseem was barely above 28" so I opened the box. The bike fits me well, but I do ride with the seat in the lowest position. Note to those who think this is the same as the CF-1000 from Walmart. It is not. This is probably where some of the size confusion has come about.

Assembly was almost do it my self, but I couldn't get the front brake centered perfectly and could not get the front derailer adjusted perfectly(though now that I've ridden it I realize I wasn't... Read more