Originally Posted by
Ziemas
Do you honestly think the bikes from X-mart stores all come assembled to the same level as the average LBS? Do you also think that the average purchaser thinks that they do?
I honestly believe that a handful of bike enthusiasts and/or LBS connected personnel who obsessively wail about the evils of $69-$129 bikes sold at Big Box stores not meeting the same standards as mega dollar bikes sold at their favorite LBS are not exactly an unbiased source of info about the
relative value of bicycles.
Nor are the enthusiasts and LBS connected posters' interests and needs identical, or necessarily even close, to the typical purchasers/users of inexpensive bikes purchased at Big box/department stores.