From what I've read, the frames are genericly made and then branded Motobecane and several other brands since bikesdirect somehow owns the rites to the name since MOtobecane went out of business several years ago or something.

You could go with it... but the support probably would be sketchy if you had any problems.

Many people said they had to take the bikes apart completely and reassemble them (packing greese in the bearings and so on) to make em work well.