Originally Posted by Aeroplane
The point was that Mercier (not KHS), Windsor, and Dawes are all owned by the same company. They may contract out work to different manufacturers, but they all sell direct through bikesdirect.com, and a chain of stores that are also owned by the same company.
It does have an american bottom bracket shell, that's what I was pointing out by saying that it has one-piece cranks. With an American BB shell, it's easy to find blinging BMX parts to put in it, since a lot of BMX bikes use the same shell.
don't know if it's been mentioned since the op, but just to point out that there are adapters to run a euro bb in an american bb shell, so you can run track cranks if you wish