The interesting thing is that everything on this bike works fine (now). The rear derailer was the toughest thing to straighten. I had to clamp the cage parts in a vice and use a square and a pair of vice grips to straighten everything. It works perfectly now. I can't complain about the durability of this part, even if it is the lowest cost derailer on the market.

I unmounted the rear rim and laid it flat on the kitchen counter (wife wasn't home) to find the deviations and bent it with my knee until it was straight. It's running true now but I don't know if it might have been fatigued by the initial trauma or even by bending it back. None of the bends were more than about 5/8" off the counter though.

The derailer hanger on the frame bent back easily with an adjustable wrench. I doubt that it could be bent again and survive another bending back but for now, it seems solid enough.

The brakes work as well as the Shimanos on my Trek Antelope and make much less noise.

What I was concerned about was the failure potential of either the frame, which doesn't seem likely, the way my wife rides, or any of the low-cost components which are listed on the page.

One of the things that bothers me about this bike is the deception in marketing it. If you design a bike to look like an ATB and attach a small label warning the consumer not to take it off road and if you put one extremely low cost part from a famous manufacturer on a bike so you can label it "Brand X Equipped", what other deceptions have you engineered into the product that the consumer can't see?