Originally Posted by ducati
Cig's test, that's interesting. Back to the regularly scheduled program...
Yep. It's far more interesting to find out just what is wrong with the bike than just a dismissive "it sucks". It's fine to think something sucks -- just back up your case with some real information.
I know back when I was trying to decide if I should buy my current Cadillac bicycle, I went looking places like this for information (particularly negative, as the few actual reviews I had seen were all positive, and I wanted to know the downside), and the closest thing to an informative opinion was someone who said "oh, you can get more for your money" without saying what or where offers better value (since then I've only found some of the Windsor bikes that seem to offer better components at a similar price range), all of the other negative reviews consisted of nuggets of "wisdom" along the lines of "Cadillac, you've gotta be kidding me?"
Essentially, the negative reviews all seemed to be coming from folk who really had no experience with the bike. And this is where Cig's review is of some worth -- we may find out that the bike is indeed a total crapbomb, but we'll know why it's a crapbomb, which is what's really important. At least to me.