Originally Posted by
imoscardotcom
department store bikes are toys. everything on the bike will fail soon. they are made to break. not worth your time at all
I'm well aware of that, but at this point, it's the only bike I've got. I figure that it'd be a decent project - if it breaks, it doesn't matter much, and I can then use the rear wheel on a decent MTB frame.
I've ridden dept. store bikes thousands of miles over the years, and haven't had a serious failure. I know that it's nothing big and fancy, but I'm a new teacher with thousands of debt on a new teacher's budget...