Originally Posted by
rebel1916
That bike will get a 12 year old picked on. Kids are animals, and even without knowing anything about bikes, they will know that stem/bar is terrible. Hook the kid up with an 820 or something.
That IS an 820. Wouldn’t take much to lower the stem and put the bar-ends back where they’re supposed to go. And provided it’s solid, starting with a $40 bike leaves a lot of room in the build budget for making aesthetic upgrades.