well, if you paid good money for anything, wouldn't you want what you PAID for, and not a factory "second" or an aesthetically "different" item??!! and if you had your choice between two identical bikes, except one had an upside down decal and one didn't, which one would you choose??!! besides, i never said it was a "collectible", the store employee used that term, i was simply asking if anyone here thought it might be a collectible since i'm not familiar with collectible bikes.

as for whether or not i would return the bike IF that WERE an option,...well it depends. the fact that the decal slipped through quality control would lead me to believe that perhaps something "else" got by them too. however, as i mentioned, other than the decal, the bike is in perfectly good working order. if the bike had shown some other mechanical defect or other finish issue, then...YES...i probably would return it for an exchange or another model. wouldn't you, smart guy?!