Originally Posted by
Johnny Alien
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.
It's a matter of who cares enough to post in a thread. Those that disagree about the value of the Denali have stayed out of this thread (yet are prevalent in the earlier one). It's sort of like if I post a thread titled "Aren't Jamis Quests the best road bicycle ever?" I'll get almost entirely positive responses... and it helps that CigTech is a very, um, prolific poster.