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Old 10-14-11 | 06:19 AM
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Bikes: 1986 Trek 500 Tri Series, 2005 Cannondale R1000

That bike has two things going for it - it's made by a 'real' bike company, and it's dirt cheap.

However, the company would not be selling it so cheap without a reason. Someone once gave me a shiny Huffy MTB - it was like new, unused...I figured, it;s cheap, it's heavy but so what? It's a free bike - I'll just tighten up and adjust everything, and it'll be fine, right?

Wrong - The brakes were complete mush and the gears were almost unusable...but when I tried to tighten cables and make adjustments I was horrified to find many of the adjustment points were made of plastic! After one or two attempts to set up the bike, these parts and the cables were mangled into useless clumps of debris, FUBAR. In other words the bike was a useless waste of time and money from day one.

if I were buying this from Walmart I'd want to essentially go over every inch of the bike as if I were the one assembling it, before I ever took it out to ride.
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