What I can't figure out about this thread on a whole is that 99.9% of the Bike Forums discourages people from ever buying a department store bike (and rightfully so). And here is a thread dedicated to how it's a really good idea if you are good at bike maintenance.

No matter how good I think that with Craigslists used bike there are way more options than this one and no one on Bike Forums should make this sound like a good idea.