meanwhile im over here with my familys' "walmart cheapos that run like crap" that actually all run pretty great and have lasted us for 20 years and are still going strong lol
wtf ive never had a single ounce of luck with cheap bikes
my kids bikes were ofc from walmart being huffy and stuff but i can't remember that much about them
when i was 15-16 there was this decent mongoose i got because my dad was too physically disabled to ride it. it was actually pretty good for what i needed when i was a teenager, but it got stolen so i didn't have much experience with it. i liked it, but it was probably because it was disassembled when we got it, then assembled by a shop mechanic instead of half ass slapped together by some overnight stocking guy
then for $120 i bought a 2005 trek that was broken down that we fixed up, still had tons of problems with, my parents ended up spending probably double what we paid for the repairs and all, and that made me decide to get a $600 sirrus sport brand new from the shop. havent been able to go back to department store bikes since
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