I recently bought a Motobecane phantom elite from bikesdirect. They have some very good deals on some of their bikes, especially once you start looking at the ones near or over a thousand dollars, personally the only mountain bikes worth looking at for me were the fly and phantom series. Everything went great for me, and I love my new bike, but it seems a few people have had their issues with the warranties. The owner of the company posts on these forums fairly regularly.