I ended up on this thread because I'm looking to buy a mountain bike, after only road biking or doing multi-use trails for a decade, and I'm looking at BD because I can buy twice the bike. I love my local bike shop, but I don't plan on buying more than one bike, so I want what I buy to last. I was going to go for another Motobecane, but they are all sold out until September, so it's looking like I'm going to go with a Gravity FSX 29. As far as I can tell, most people think it's a good bike for the price.