Would you buy this bike?

It is an older model year so that is why it is discounted heavily.

Always is does it fit. Have you gotten a fit first? Ideally you get fit and they make sure the bike or bikes you test ride will fit you. Some shops will adjust the bike to fit you to test ride it which may mean changing out the stem, getting reach, saddle height all right so you can really tell the difference in the bike.

Do you want a road bike? For that price you can get a great carbon tri bike with Ultegra.

Have you shopped around, asked a lot of questions, ridden quite a few bikes. I'd do all those things first. Clearly this bike has been sitting around awhile it probably won't sell in the next couple days.

My LBS says technology improvements on bikes is about 10% a year so you are getting a bike from '06 and '09s are out so that would mean 30% difference.  It is the way they compare prices of new to old model year bikes in a general sense.

Enjoy the process..I love buying new bikes..I just got my newest bike 2 days ago.

Hey lil....

For that price you can get a better and great carbon road/tri bike with Ultegra.

Why don't you first check online  before take a decision....???

Remember....the new 2009 bikes will be out in the market very soon....and....that means there will be great Close-Outs and Sales of 2007 and  2008 bikes....

Ok, just to clarify a few things....

First, there's no way i'd be looking at a $4000+ bike if it wasn't this heavily discounted.  The very very upper end of my price range is $3000, and that's pushin it. 

I've decided on a road bike bc I've never ridden anything but a mtn. bike and I feel like I need that middle step before going to a tri bike.  My back gets sore riding a road bike so it'd kill me to be aero!  Some day i'll look into a tri bike.

This is a well thought out decision.  I've done pretty much nothing but shop for bikes for the last week now, and I've test ridden so many I can barely keep them all straight.  This is one of the best fits I've found, and it was more comfortable than the specialized I thought I had decided on.  I haven't had an actual fit from the shop though...they don't do that just for test rides I don't think.

I am a little sad at the lack of blinginess....(is that a word?).  I have definitely ridden some that look a lot faster.  Not a deal breaker....just a little sad. 

And KathyG, I wish I enjoyed buying bikes!  The process was fun at the start but now it's way too stressful!  I wish the right bike would just fall into my lap cus I can't seem to make the decision.  I'm so scared that as soon as I buy it I'm going to find something different or better, even though I think I've ridden most of the bikes in town!  I'm tempted just to wait for the '09s to come out but I've already put off getting a bike for a year, i hate to wait longer.  

This is the key consideration: tri-bike vs. road bike.

I opted for a road bike for my first, a Bianchi Imola ... and loved it.  Great bike with a good groupe that was had a reasonable cost.  The thought was that if this whole triathlon thing did not work out then I would have a road bike for group rides (which is still one of my favorite parts about training).

Tried to put aerobars on the road bike ... and it just did not work.  The fit was wrong, uncomfortable, unnatural.  This led to the purchase of a Cervelo Dual - and the expense of another bike.

If you are thinking tri-bike then your price point of ~$2700 is actually considered to be 'the sweet spot' between money spent and bike received.  See this write up from BikeSportMichigan.com ... the owner of the store is a regular here and on Slowtwitch that other site (http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/store/howmuch.shtml)

so where was the bike and what size?

It was at bicycle village.  I think it's a 54...maybe a 56...i seem to switch between those two sizes for different brands.  They might still have it on hold for me...i should probably call them and tell them I changed my mind...