Originally Posted by
oldfixguy
fuji86,
How much was wrong with this bike out of the box? What had to be replaced? How many hours invested in getting it working properly? How much pain in the butt factor? Not my idea of a bargain. It sounds like a pure piece of crap that you made functional through bulldog like perseverance and an overriding desire to prove it could be made into a functional item. Good for you and all and I certainly hope you enjoy it and it remains safe. But, given what you went through I can't see how you could possibly recommend it. Clearly, you made it work - after significant pain. That's not my idea of a selling point.
I think the bulldog perseverance is relative to any bike. The wheel trueing, all of them need that. The local bike shop does everything that I did and buy their new one, I guarantee you'll go back for tuneups and so on like I had to perform over about the same time period and even if it's less than what I went thru, they did a better job getting it done going onto the showroom floor, but $ 600+, that was paid for ? This or for the most part any internet bike is a DIYer and what you can't you throw a few bucks more at. Within a couple of weeks the tweaking, riding, breaking in, and adjustment/readjustment process and I'm sitting around $ 300 including the lock. I agree this one had it's share of broken out of the box, but RBO made that right everytime and response was overnight (they in St Augustine, FL, me in Miami, FL). I can recommend it, because it's $ 300 not $ 600+, even with what I went thru. Anyway, nothing comes perfect, they all need the work & TLC. Just a matter of whether you or another sweat the details of it.