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Old 04-29-09 | 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Hunt-man
I know raging on BD is a fun pastime for some here but I don't think you have a leg to stand on, at least regarding this OP bike, if you can't find another $300 road bike that is better. Marketing is all a bunch of nonsense designed to get us to part with our money and only sometimes is there a substantial factual basis behind it that is true.

So why Caveat Emptor for this $300 road bike? Looks like a decent POS for $300 to me. I wouldn't ride it but that is just me.
Because it's falsely advertised as being comparable to a $795 bike. No $795 bike that I know of (possibly except the Kona ***** Tonk) has stem shifters (and the HT has DA downtube shifters), and no $795 has extremely shoddy welds.

Forge, a budget sister company of Giant, makes better frames at approximately the same price.
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