I bought a Mongoose Hoop-D Team Issue from wal-mart and started doing vert this morning. Turns out the handlebars are aluminum and bend unbeleivably(sp?) easy, so i ****ed up my knee and elbow :-/ I came home and ripped the left handle totaly off and now I gotta get new handle bars. Goes to show Mongoose bikes from wal-mart suck, but today I saw a kid there doing back-flips and everything else on a mongoose. I asked him about it and he's saying it's all stock just got it yesterday, and he hasn't had a problem. He bought it from a local pro shop that I'm going to check out very soon...So yes Wal-Mart brand is gay...Pro brand kicks butt.