Originally Posted by
wstudio
My post was my 1st experience with a bikesdirect bike. this Bike forum must be in business with bikes direct. I asked for help and not all but most only made comments and offered smart remarks but no help. I wrote stripped but most of the bolts broke. I got it sorted after buying multiple parts and had no problems with the replacment parts. Everyone is pumping bikesdirect bikes. My opinion and experience is they are cheap and buying a department store bike is about the same quality for less then $400 bucks. It does however have a nice copy of a popular frame. I happy and riding now but for new buyers you are better off puting out the money on a quality bike or if you go kilo just get the frame cause the rest is crap.
Dude... You ever heard of a comma? Spell check? A Torque Wrench?
If you're shearing off bolts on a bike, then you're doing it completely wrong. Disregard all of my previous advice and just sell the bike. Go buy a bike from a department store (for less money
than [not then] the Kilo) and take the savings and buy the guys at your LBS some beer because they're going to be working on your junk a lot. And a grammar book. Buy one of those, too.
And as Scrod said, don't ever do anything yourself. Ever.
Nobody here is in business with BD, except for BD themselves. I've bought a bike from there and it was fine right out of the box. No sheared bolts. No busted cogs or lock rings. No stripped BB or headsets. Nothing. I had never built a bike in my life and I had it on the road in less than an hour. In fact, I actually disliked the frame size so I bought a whole new frame and swapped it out. No experience necessary, homie. Just a little common sense.