Originally Posted by hooligan

China...

I ride a department store bike, and I guess I could believe that they break. But they aren't meant to be mountain biking. Just for fun on the road. But still, don't "real" bikes frame break? I mean I bet theres a ton of them, but more department store bike failures are more looked forward to rather than seeing an 820 crack. So there are more department store photos. My friend has gone mtbing on his supercycle and even through downhill 1-2 foot drops it didn't break. And I know like 4 people who are still riding their old d-ment store bike on road and off road, and they have never failed. Maybe it's just them.

I know that non-d-ment store bikes are generally better, but how much is your friend going to use that bike for until he gets better. His father is of coruse wrong, and I don't want anyone else to make the same mistake that my father made me do.

I just don't like posts that flame bikes. Bikes are bikes.