Originally Posted by
Ironfish653
Those really, really bottom end bikes are almost better than the $200 full-suspension bikes. Ten-speed or 3x5 with thumb-shifters, bolt on wheels, one-piece cranks and stamped steel calipers; they're like AK-47s. They're loose and sloppy, and they never work well, but they're so simple, they always work, through the kinds of treatment/abuse that would break other, supposedly better bikes.
It's when mfgrs try to add features on the cheap like disks and suspension, that you get truly crappy bikes.
I agree. If this bike had a suspension fork or any of that jazz, I'd likely have found someone who needed a bike and gave it to them. But since it's got a rigid frame and wide tires it makes a nice gravel bike. Certainly better to tear this bike up on our country roads than my hybrid.