Great Beginner Bike. Great Bike for beginner, best value on the market and light weight. strongest recommend to all bike beginner.

Great bike for the money. This was my first actual bike after a number of years being on a crappy walmart bike that ended up falling apart while riding it. Anyways, being that this is my first road bike, I’m not going to be a very good judge of everything, but this bike seems to definentally be worth the $200 I have invested in it. It looks great and goes fast for costing as little as it does. People had mentioned making sure to go and get your bike tuned right off the bat which would be a very good idea, but what I ended up doing was just watching a bunch of youtube videos to figure out how to do it myself. After watching those, I was able to tune the bike myself fairly easily and for free since I already had the tools available. I think that watching those videos also helped with installing the front brake caliper since you get to see how it should work on other bikes and other people mentioned having trouble figuring out how to put it on. I have already encountered the problem of getting flats and happened to have both tires go flat on one of my first bike rides. I think it is more attributed to me going over a bump to fast, but noticed when I took the old tubes out that they had been pinched by the tire. I would recommend just making sure that the tube is correctly put into the tire and wheel assembly so you don’t have to “flintsone” your bike home. Overall, a great bike for the amount of money that it costs. I am sure that you could get a better bike by spending $600, but for what it’s worth, I’m just going to stick with this bike.

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very well. i bought this bike recently. it is a great bike and rides real smooth compared to older road bikes. the parts seem high quality and their easy to adjust if needed especially the brake calipers. it took me just a little bit to put it together, but thats because i took my time. if you purchase this bike you will not be disappointed. i haven’t rode a bike in years and one of the reasons was to get this bike was to help my diabetes. my first rode trip i was trying to take it easy and end up riding 14 miles. it felt really good i couldn’t wait for my next ride.

Great Entry Level Road Bike. About 7 months ago I was getting into road biking and thought this bike would be a great start. I am 5 10 and this bike fit me pretty well. The frame is a bit longer than other road bikes, but you will not notice the difference if this is your first bike. I have put about 500 miles on this bike and have had very minimal problems. The biggest downfall to this bike would be the lack of a quick release skewer on the rear wheel. This bike is a bit heavier than a more expensive entry level road bike, but again, is a great bike to start out on. I have stepped up to a Bianchi Nirone C2C, and this is now my campus cruiser. Highly recommended for a first road bike. If you are into biking though, I would step it up to the $700+ range.

Shipping was fairly fast, taking a couple weeks to get to my semi-minor town.

Firstly I notice the tires were twisted funny on the wheels. Very cheap. I had to adjust the tires to get everything roughly symmetrical while gradually putting air in. This took half an hour.

From here I followed the instructions and put on the front tire, seat and handlebars. No problems here. Took another half hour because I’d never done it before. Well, just be sure to tighten the handlebars REALLY well. I fell the first rut I hit because I lost my steering.

The next unofficial thing needed is truing the wheels while gradually tightening the brakes. The included instructions make no mention of how to do this, and you’ll have to find out via google. I found it’s important to adjust the brakes while truing, or else you’ll go nuts trying to figure out why the brakes don’t work right. I lost probably 3 hours on this.

Next goes on to derailleur adjustment… this is where my nightmare truly began. The instructions tell you what to do, but leave out a critical step: NOTICE THE ORIENTATION OF THE ADJUSTMENT WIRES AND FLIP THEM AROUND AS NECESSARY TO MAKE SHIFTING EASIER!! I found I couldn’t operate the front shifter at all with all the strength I had. Then I just unbolted the adjustment wire and spun it around the other way on the bolt. Suddenly shifting took less than half the oomph of before! Too bad the derailleur actually BENT in this experience. I torqued the shifter so hard it ripped and bent a metal part. I emailled the company and they got me a new one in a couple weeks.

Then I realized I couldn’t install the new derailleur without using a chain tool to temporarily break the chain — a tool I did not have. So I ordered a $20 tool to do the job. That was another week of delay. I think I spent upwards of 8 hours just on the derailleurs.

So over approximately 5 weeks and 12 hours of active effort, I now have a finished bicycle I don’t really trust so much. If I hit a bump or shift gears fast, the chain pops right off. But hey, at least it was cheap and looks nice. I do like the shock system too — it is a fairly cushioned ride.

Great price but falls apart.. If you want a cheap bike to just get you around every once and awhile this is a good bike. When it comes you must assemble the front wheel, handle bars, pedals and seat, and pump up the bike tires. The assembly was fairly easy but the brakes on the bike and wheel alignment are very off. The tires are fairly crooked and the brakes are very difficult to adjust, even the bike shop couldn’t do it. The handle bar comes loose in two areas and I’m afraid one time I’ll pull the handle bar out when driving in the street. It’s not a bad bike to get you somewhere for cheap.

It is what it is….. A cheap bike. Let me just say I have taken this bike out on 15 rides the first was a fairly light bike trail and it did ok. The 10+ rides after the first, consisted of street riding and bike trail riding. It handled fair for that. Took it out to the local nature preserve and by the time I was through I wanted to through it into the gulley. This bike is not made to handle offroad. It’s definiteley not designed with street in mind either. So that brings me to the conclussion that this is a complete waste of time and money.

I did not buy this bike, I earned it through a program for selling insurance and bought it with my earned miles. I am no pro but I do know how to work on a bike. There is no reason to buy this bike. The suspension bottoms out on 70%-90% of the terrain you will find, even on fire roads. The brakes are no good. I adjusted them as I would any other bike and they worked for about 5 minutes before going back to exactly how they were before I adjusted. It was at the worst time too. Going down a steep hill hit the brakes full and took about 10-20 seconds before I slowed down to a speed where I could put my foot down. Next is the pedal, I have logged over 5,000 miles on previous bikes owned and the pedal broke off within 20 miles on this bike.

Being that this bike is equipped with a dual suspension you would think you can take it into some tough terrain. That is not the case. The only place I would ride this is on the street but then again that is not recommended because the brakes are very sketchy. It looks good but clearly this bike blows. I’m going to sell mine on craigslist for $20! Poor guy that buys it is going to save $80 just to pay hundreds in health insurance cost.

TO THE GUY THAT SAYS A FEW MINOR ADJUSTMENTS AND ITS GOOD: NO NO NO! You either work for Grays Peak or you have yet to take this on a hill. It falls apart, it breaks, it looks good, and the brakes do not work.

Nice dual suspension for its price. First and foremost, this bike cost $179 so you can’t expect high grade quality components on this dual suspension mountain bike. I received the bike pretty quick (less than a week) and it is packaged in one box. The packaging was great but there was a part of the frame that has a small rough patch of scratch to it. It didn’t really matter to me since it is a cheap bike after all. Putting the bike together was very simple, I didn’t even need the manual that came with it, even if you do need the manual it doesn’t really go over your Kent Shogun bike. It’s more like generally. I think setting up the brakes might take a while since my brakes are never tight enough like someone mentioned by one of the reviewers but I don’t really ride this fast on this bike anyway. The bike is made of aluminum material that is supposedly lighter. I test ride it and was extremely comfortable thanks to its dual suspension although I did switch the seats to a more comfy on. It comes with a kickstand. The shifters aren’t really that great. Max of 40 psi tires. Quick release only on the seat. The only thing I didn’t like was I don’t have any good place to put my U lock on the bike frame. Overall I expected what I paid for. I will purchase a trek hybrid once this one breaks down.

Allright bike for a cheep price. over all the bike is all right, there isn’t much to say about it although the front brakes arn’t that good.