Originally Posted by
PeteHski
Depends if you want to safely descend the hill you just climbed. Given the very low rider weight limit, these frames are also probably not very stiff either. Cheap and light usually means not very strong.
Where are these frames actually manufactured? I suspect some low tier Chinese catalogue frame if they are so cheap from a US company.
I think they're probably made in China (can't immediately find any verification, but signs point to this). That being said, I would voice this opinion: Chinese-made != bad necessarily. All frames (and I would argue, people) deserve to be evaluated on their merits, rather than their point of origin.
So one thing I'd like to push back against in this thread is the "oh they're cheap and Asian made they must be junk" narrative, particularly if one hasn't used or ridden the frame before, or even held one in their hands. Will I buy one sight unseen? No. But I also won't trash one prematurely over the internet.