Originally Posted by Steely Dan

i've had my BD.com Moto Le champ SL Ti for almost a year now and have been exceptionally pleased with the bike. i've put over 4,000 miles on the bike and i still haven't had to make a single adjustment to the brake or shift cables or the derailleurs! seriously, from out of the box to 4,000 miles later, everything is still perfectly dialed in! how is that possible? do ultegra level components come with pre-stretched cables or soemthing? the mavic wheels rolled perfectly true right out of the box and have needed no adjustment after 4,000 miles. even the rubino pro tires that came with the bike have never flatted (knock on wood) and are still in pretty decent shape (though i'll probably replace them before my big tour in britain this summer).

overall, i found the assembly of my BD.com bike pretty damn easy. attach the front wheel and brake to the fork, attach and align bars/stem onto steerer, adjust saddle position/height, and screw my pedals into the crank arms. anyone with some hex wrenches and a modest amount of mechanical inclination should be able to figure that stuff out.