Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
you need to be more spefic about what BD bike has a flexing BB as opposed to the bike from your local bike shop. are you comparing a basic ultegra equipped aluminum frame to a cannondale? what forks are you comparing?
of course the BD Motobecane Fantom Uno is not as nice a bike as the Bianchi San Jose I really wanted but at 1/2 the price it takes me to Dunkers or Starbucks just as well as the San Jose would have and I have more money for cappicunios
The point that I was trying to make is that I now would like to check out any bike ahead of time rather than having done all the work of assembling it, only to find out that it has some design flaws. To partially answer your question, the BD bike with the flexing issue cost twice as much as my current LBS commuter bike, and even if it did cost the same or even half, it still does me no good to have the bike hang in the rafters.