Originally Posted by
Wilfred Laurier
It looks good from far, but far from good.
Some specific problems:
The forks are absolute crap. You can make some assumptions based on the appearance of the weld on the brake bridge and where the dropouts are welded to the lower legs.
I believe it comes with a freewheel on the rear wheel instead of the modern standard of a cassette, and this will lead to a bent or broken axle after approx. one jump.
The crankset has the chainrings pressed on to the right arm, and this is a known point of failure and weakness on less expensive bikes.
I think the point of that bike is to market it as a 'carbon fiber bike' to people who don't know that the frame material is not the most important consideration. In the early/mid '90s there were many aluminum framed box store bikes marketed the same way and they were also generally terrible.
You just like to be hatin' on big box bikes. We've already got a thread for that.