i hope you dont mind my opinion on WM bikes. ive ridden them all my life(im 22). well since i started riding when i was like 10. the last mountain bike i had lasted 2200 miles off road on a rooty single track next to a river(multiple trips). i only ever had to adjust deraillers and brakes sorta often, tacoed one wheel dropping a three footer. o yeah, that bike had a crappy spring fork and no reas suspension. the fork wasnt amazing, but it did its job, for the entire time that i kicked that bikes butt. i kicked its butt plenty. then i upgraded to a full squishy from walmart. 1647 miles on it on the same trail. cranks creak and the seat rails also, needed brakes and shifters adjusted. fine other than that. o yeah im a 180lb dude with little to no finesse(and i speed on the trail and wreck often, cause im stupid, but the bikes been fine).

p.s. no new chains, no new cassette. no lubing(chain or brakes) EVER. just a spray from the hose when mud got caked on. a little spray to wash of the gears and hubs.

pps, i live in so fla by the beach(rain, salt water)