It is a good folding bike over all for the price. Enjoy your biking and don't worry about the noise, the bike will not fall apart any way, even those over $1000 big name bikes are not noise free. After doing quite a bit of research and comparison earlier this year, I bought two cheap bikes in Taiwan: GOAL GT1 (NT$2,500) and MEXLLER BAHIS B3 (NT$7,900). I used B3 on a 250 KM tour along east coast of Taiwan and had no problem at all. After brought the bikes back to Canada, I sold B3 just because I didn't like the C-brake. I will keep GT1 and plan to add a 3-gear crank and replace the steel forks.