Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Bike = a frame + stuff attached to it.. interchangeable parts.. I doubt any Vilano factory exists..
contract manufacturing rules these days . order enough bikes from a company and you can have your name on it.
You can buy better brakes after you own it, they buy the brakes from someone else, in bulk ..
Not a Gates carbon belt , those parts alone are about $500.
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So interchangeable parts are not NECESSARILY a bad thing... Is your overarching point that it's probably an OK buy with maybe some cheap components (Hey! Like my FUJI that I am currently replacing every component on) or that it's a hunk of junk and to save my $$ to by the Giant "Seek 1" that I also like? Also seeing a lot of Motobecane bikes which look like they're in my wheelhouse, I have never heard of them either thoughts?