Now we can just point at this $150+tax solution which works from the start instead of trying to get a POS beater to work with $150 minus whatever they paid for the bike.

I only put in about $120 for my FG, which were frame set, stem and brakes, but I had all the other parts on hand already.

YEah.....

it's packaged with a ****ty heavy walmart bike.

I don't know about every day use. davis has the majority of people using walmart mountain bikes as daily commuters and they generally are unusable by the end of the 9month year.

though this would do away with the derailers, which are usually the cause of most of the problems. if the hubs are okay enough and the bottom bracket doesn't completely explode then it's probably good enough for campus duty.

anyone try counting the amount of spokes in those wheels? I gave up.

Are they in stores yet? One of us needs to go to WalFart and actually LOOK at it.

lol... i'm going to make my neighbor buy one...

I counted 48 WOW
I was thinking I just paid $120 for some kilo wheels,
so why not pay $30 more and get an entire bike, except it is almost 40lbs and probably the ****tyest thing ever built

There's no way an aluminum bike weighs nearly 40 lbs.

I bet the wheels weight 8~10lbs on their own.

Ignore the shipped weight, my neighbor bought a walmart bike for his kid (didn't want to spend much on a growing 10 year old), and it said it was shipping 37 pounds. Bike ended up weighing around 22 when I put it together for him, how they estimated it was 37 was beyond me.

Why not if the tubing is thick straight gage? And the "rigid" fork is prolly steel. My VISP frame is heavier than most cromo frames. And maybe the cranks and rims and bars and seatpost etc are all steel. Those $2 tires are probably about 2 lbs apiece. An so on. So yeah, I can see 40 lbs.

Last Xmas I put together some el cheapo Xmart bikes for a friend's kids and those things were like lead sleds. The wheels were so out of whack that they were rubbing on the frame and fork and the brakes could not be adjusted to where they would apply any force with the levers pulled all the way to the bar. Not only were they total unridable POS's, they were very dangerous POS's. I did my best to render them rideable. Fortunately, the kids quickly lost interest in them before they hurt themselves.

So the moral of the story is if you buy some really crappy cheap bikes that don't work no matter how hard you try to beat them into submission, you've just wasted your money, no matter how little you spent.

That is sickening. Radially laced front wheel cracks me up.

it's just another cheap bike. There are lots of em out there. People will buy them and use them to transport themselves. That's about it...

+1

Don't expect this to be an awesome bike.

It's unfair to dis it so hard being that it is what it is. We shouldn't compare it to anything but other budget bikes.

That thought sooo crossed my mind

I'll get one just to run it into the ground.
but jesus, with 48 spoke wheels I wouldn't be surprised if it never dies

HAHAHAHAHHdslkfajs;fjasfl... that made me lol...

Doubtful that the bike has 48 spoke wheels and the image was probably computer rendered... being Scottish I will have to wait until they are clearing them out for $99.00 and buy one.

I guess that with this recumbents will be the new hipster fad...

Could this be a nice tarcking bike? Yea its aluminum but afterall mongoose makes all these BMX bikes anyway and the tubing and fork looks beefy (from the pics anyway)...... and it does come with risers.... plus the 48 spokes [if they will come that way] (assuming more spokes enable the wheel to stay true longer (sorry not a mechanic) the wheelset could stay true for longer unless it comes out of the box untrue.... )offer a great deal of survivability for tarck torture.... before they finally bomb or do the taco...

The question is does it clear a 700C?

Don't fool with the cool 'cause the cool don't fool.

I like it!

But i think I'd prefer this mongoose bike...

Apart from the sloping downtube, it actually doesn't look that bad... :|

I'm not going to say that Wally World bikes are high quality but they are what they are and that is decent and inexpensive means of transportation. Their high failure rate can be attributed more to improper assembly and non-existent setup/adjustments at the store compounded by user error... many people keep their tires under-inflated because they think the tires will otherwise blow out... the chain only gets lubed in the rain when it's splashed by road-grime... the owner is so clueless that he/she realizes something is wrong with the bike only at the point of catastrophic failure... anything that breaks or loosens up gets 'fixed' with tape, string or JBWeld.

A co-worker bought a Schwinn hybrid at Wally World several years back, got it home and set it up properly. He's been commuting on it year round since and it's been reliable... because he's not an idiot and knows basic maintenance rituals.

I've heard that your average dept. store bike (Wal Mart, Target, Etc.) is only ridden like 50-60 miles before it's trashed, so the Dept. Stores just starting making their bikes to that standard. I don't claim any truth to this because it was just hearsay, but I don't think it'd be that far of a stretch.