What he said.
From what I've heard, coaster brakes are the achilles heel of x-mart bikes. They are underdesigned on the assumption that most people who buy a bike these days at a store like that will ride it fewer than 100 miles.
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Originally Posted by
bragi 
"However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."