Originally Posted by
acidfast7
I think it's too short of a time to know (only 500km or so). I think the maintenance will be spectacularly low ... as in a set of cheap tires and a chain per year and no adjustments (£30).
However, it should be stated that I'm not a heavy user. I assume that I'll work roughly 150 days/year so I'll only log roughly 3000km per year. So, one chain and a cheap set of tires every 3000km seems about right.
I suspect that would be the typical maintenance cost of
any relatively lightly used single speed bike, no matter what its purchase price or source.
I know the Walmart bashers/LBS devotees fill BF with posts about how low cost bikes without LBS provenance fall apart in a week, but I believe that is only so much trash talk from people with an agenda.