Originally Posted by
stark23x
Me too.
I'm 258lbs today, riding a Schwinn "sidewinder" (they sell this bike under like, eleventy different names depending on where you get it) from Wally World. Boy do I wish I hadn't bought it. But, I'm putting at least a hundred miles a week on it now, and making plans and doing research for a better bike around Christmas time.
Of course like an idiot I sunk a few hundred into trying to make this bike work before I realized it's always going to be slow and always going to suck. Hence the sig image.
Next spring I will be a speed demon bombing up and down hills and dales. This year? Tortoise on the paved bike path with my department store special.
There's a poster on the Touring Forum who rode his Wal-mart Sidewinder from South Carolina to Texas. As low-end bikes go, it's not bad.