Nice bike! It looks to be of similar quality to my wife's mixte, which we paid $100 for.
Originally Posted by
trail_monkey
Yea but knowing that freewheel axles are weaker, I was reading that they used to have a tendency to break especially if you added an extended range freewheel which would put more stress on the axle in the lowest gear. Is this true?
I broke a freewheel hub once, on a 7-speed MTB. It failed at the freewheel body, not the axle (in other words, the cogs came loose so I couldn't pedal very well, but the wheel kept rolling in the frame just fine).