Originally Posted by
itsjustMATT
@ilikebikes:
Standard consumers who know nothing about bikes don't replace things. They go, oh hay, I has a bike. Ride ride ride break death. Someone on the product review site in the original post stated that to change the chainring, you have to drill through rivets. Rivets. Come on. What did they do? Weld the wheels into the dropouts, too? It seems to me, Wal**** knows that the standard consumers aren't going to replace things on the bike, due to the fact that they just don't know how or what to replace. And plus, Wal**** doesn't sell chainrings, do they? "MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SWITCH OUT CHAINRINGS ON OUR BIKES" says Wal**** CEO.
Let me guess, you just started riding bikes a couple months ago.
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