Originally Posted by Bonzo Banana

Decathlon do some great stuff including some very good value bikes but they do have very low weight limits, perhaps designed with the thinner shorter frenchmen in mind. Normally their weight limits are 100kg minus the weight of the bike, fitted accessories, luggage and rider's clothes. You can end up with a user weight limit of less than 80kg on many bikes. It's very restrictive to us taller, fatter UK men. A typical US brand bike plus Giant bikes and a few others have a weight limit of 136kg for the rider alone unless a performance bike where it drops to 120/125kg. Sadly I'm too tall and fat to ride a Decathlon bike. Lightest I've been in recent years is 95kg. You might think its Decathon being overly cautious but they had to recall their Rockrider mountain bikes because the larger frames were breaking within weeks of purchase plus there was a recall on e-bikes for models that had been sold for 4 years such was the high percentage of frame failures. They cater more for the lightweight lycra brigade I guess is the point I'm making, their designs are focused on being lightweight with strength a bit like Tern, Dahon, Campagnola equipped bikes etc.