anyone purchase a bike from there? Looks like they are located in europe while Im here in USA… so shipping maybe a pain. Yes I am also looking at pros closet (which I trust)
Hello all. I took blind faith and purchased a bike from bike-room.com !
Here is the scoop…
It is a similar service to pro’s closet. I see there are new brakes and tires put on the bike. They take some professional pictures, so some lighting effects may make the bike appear a different color. I was hesitant about my bike size, used to be a 58 and now 56. Asked bike-room to use tape measure for sizing, and went to bike store to see if a 56 does work for me on same make/model bike, and yes it does. (Trek sales employee frustrated me, not knowing sizes and he was looking at trek website for details, when I asked him for tape measure it did not match the trek website)
Right now, $1 = 1 EU
Price of bike $3400 on their site. Cost to ship flat rate = $400, 7 day insured shipping. total is $3800
Got the bike in 3 days surprisingly. Well wrapped and very simple to assemble (seat, wheels, tighten steerer). Being that it was pruchased and shipped from EU, 11% VAT applies (they state to check your countries VAT costs, so you are warned)… $420. Just a little unhappy my bank charged me 3% international transaction fee, when the currency exchange rate is equal. So in total $4350 spent.
obligatory #NBD pic - also my felt b16 will be up for sale in classifieds soon. Promised myself to buy a new bike if I sub 1 hour in 40k TT 
Thank you so much for sharing!
I am on the fence too. I am surprised they charged you 11%.
Tarriff database : https://hts.usitc.gov/?query=bicycle
I think your Trek should fall into this category, which is 5% import duty.
Bicycles having both wheels exceeding 63.5 cm in diameter:
8712.00.25 00 If weighing less than 16.3 kg complete without accessories and not designed for use with tires having a cross-sectional diameter exceeding 4.13 cm
DHL might have weighed it more than 16.3kg (must have included the box), which made it one category down , which has 11% duty.
Yes I did research before but wasn’t sure how to fight for that difference. It was either pay or they don’t deliver (DHL)