Originally Posted by junkyard

I love it when people come here, ask an opinion and get all heated because someone says that their bike is crap. This is even better because all of the responses were tame. In light of that, OP, I am an elitist, high-society jerk. Your bike is crap.

Originally Posted by GoGreen4Life

Too bad you suck at replying on time, im over what everyone said and I'm having my local bike shop assemble it. If you want to be good at being a jerk, start with something smaller than the web loser.

Originally Posted by GoGreen4Life

Too bad you suck at replying on time, im over what everyone said and I'm having my local bike shop assemble it. If you want to be good at being a jerk, start with something smaller than the web loser.

Originally Posted by GoGreen4Life

I'm guessing everyone on these forums is the higher class of Americans.

Originally Posted by jack002

GoGreen, I'm not gonna pile on with the crass posters here and say your bike is crap. However, you paid $190 for it, and it "is what it is". I'd be interested to hear how well it performs for you if you ride it a few hundred miles. Hopefully it will be something that you can ride for years. If you use it and like it, then its not junk!

Jack

Originally Posted by GoGreen4Life

I'm guessing everyone on these forums is the higher class of Americans. Even when I was younger I have been getting mountain bikes that weren't very expensive and never had any problems my entire life. Then I show this bike which would be in the same category and everyone bashes it. I'm not into jumping from cliff to cliff, I just need a bike that can handle some nice trails and still get me everywhere.

Heres a picture from a local trail near my house. This is the kind of stuff I usually ride on. (This is around Blue Knob State Park).

I don't really care what anyone says about it being junk. I'm not loaded with cash, and on top of that, do you honest to god stare at someones bike frame as they ride down the street? Unless it has a bunch of crap like bags and stuff hanging off it, I never even glance at it. The only time I'll buy a mountain bike for $500 is if its loaded with a gps, lined with diamonds, and can fight a war for an entire country, until then, spending $500 just to go on mediocre trails is pretty ret@rded considering I have to work more than I'm able to have free time and bike.

Also, what does everyone mean by a heavy seat post? Is everyone riding their bike around while trying to hold their seat up with 1 arm? If you sitting on the bike, its not going to be light anyways. As for that quote from another forum saying it looks like a fat chick. How? To me that looks like an average bike anyone would ride on a trail. Everyone in these forums, needs to stop being so bashful of newcomers.

Originally Posted by GoGreen4Life

Now once I get out of college, I'm probably going to lean towards a Cannondale and move out west towards the rockies where I can get good use out of it.

Originally Posted by GoGreen4Life

The reason I paid $190 is because the place selling it had it from another company with a back stock of them. To me, I thought that was a good deal, I have taken it to a bike shop and they said it was pretty nice for the terrain around my region and great for the roads. He also told me that, regardless of the bike you buy, everyone will try to steal something off it if its not properly locked up. So with that had been said, I'm pretty glad that until my next 2 years of college are over in this high crime town, I'll be riding something to get me around and if it gets stolen i'm not out my entire tax return. Now once I get out of college, I'm probably going to lean towards a Cannondale and move out west towards the rockies where I can get good use out of it. Also, does anyone know if those all wheel drive bikes are a good investment?

Originally Posted by BenLi

If you're going to be riding trails with it, at the very least, get a LBS to inspect and check all the nuts and bolts.

or perhaps a better idea would be to piss the local bike shop owner off by buying one of their books on mountain bike maintenance by leanard zinn and learn how, with the help of a few tools you could fix your own bike rather than bringing every flat tire into the lbs like they would love to have you do.
oh and by the way if you shop online for your parts you could save about 1/2 price on most of the parts the lbs sells. check out pricepoint.com wheelworld.com icycles.com and others for some great prices on the parts you'll need if you start tearing your bike up. A little word of warning though don't tell your bike shop guy that you buy online unless you really do want to piss him off and if he is a nice guy, not a liar or a cheat, then you may want to consider buying some of your parts from his shop ocasionally just to help them stay in business. I know I've just pissed off some of you guys that work at bike shops but I'm just trying to save a poor guy some money and besides you would probably prefer customers with more cash in your store anyways.

Originally Posted by santiago

I haven't read much of this thread but I can confirm that junkyard is in fact a jerk.

Originally Posted by GoGreen4Life

Eh, I'm positive I'll like it, anyways. Ill get a new seat and water bottle at most. I honestly don't really know a lot about bikes, so really the seat post thing to me is nothing. If its crap, then I'm not going to take a hammer or something and start whacking at it. I just need a decent bike to get me around places like the Abandoned PA Turnpike, Bellwood Bike Trail, and a couple other places. Other than that, I'll buy some gel gloves because I know what its like to go down an extremely rocky hill really fast, your forearms get so itchy its almost to the point its unbearable. However, once I get the bike. I'll have my local bike shop put it together and make sure everything is in order.