Originally Posted by
wahoonc
Yep and I have in my possesion a Walmart sold Huffy Cranbrook and I can't recall the last time I have seen such crappy welds. FWIW I DID NOT BUY THE BIKE it was "issued" to me to use at the plant I am working at. I will get some pictures of the welds on Monday. They didn't even clean up the splatter prior to painting. The bike looks nice from 5 feet away. Some of the welds don't even make it all the way around the tubes. It was assembled correctly, but that may have occurred at the plant rather than WM.
Aaron
Here are the promised pictures...This is the bike I have, the ones at the store were worse. Two of them had welds that were fully broken at where the cantilever tubes attach to the down tube. Another one the bottom bracket had an ungodly amount of flex when you stood on the pedals. This is what $80usd gets you these days. FWIW I went to the Target across the street, they had a Schwinn cruiser for $100usd that was much better built; clean, neat welds and assembled properly.
gpsblake,
2 of the 3 WM that I looked in did not have your bike, but I did get a chance to look at it in the last one. Looks like a decent deal for the money. Too bad it is the only one out of 15 or 20 POS's.
Aaron
