09-10-2010, 08:24 AM
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OK, the site was back up. I can't find any actual names of derailer styles or anything, the brakes I have never heard of, they don't mention the shocks or anything. I suggest if you want a mongoose you get this one.
Actually, I say spend twice that on a Trek or a Giant, buy it from a shop, get a couple of free tune-ups, get one that is actually the correct size for your body so you can adjust the seat and stuff so you are comfortable. Get one that is not built out of complete junk.
If the shop doesn't take careful consideration about sizing the bike correctly to you find another shop.
Probably a Trek or Giant or other similar brands will have the mounts for racks and stuff on them so it is possible to mount saddle bags or a basket or something, possibly fenders. My cheapo mountain bike has all that stuff.
That green mountain bike of mine you see in all the pictures, I paid about $300 for that new in 05. I have put a bottom bracket in it and just put new brakes, chain, and a freewheel on it. All together I have put maybe $60 into it doing the work myself. It rides like a new bike as it sits right now. I would guess and say there is 2,500 miles on it.
Bottom line, don't cheap out. You don't have to spend thousands but don't go to sears or k mart or walmart. If you have a problem with it (and you will) who are you gonna go to, the 15 year old kid that put the bike together in the back room for minimum wage so he can buy more beer and dope? You will end up at a bike shop and they will be glad to fix it up for you for a couple hundred dollars.
Bike shops and a little more expensive bike is not failsafe, but you have a hell of a lot better chance of getting something that will work correctly and not just discourage you from riding.
Disk brakes are not needed for the kind of riding you or myself do, well, maybe I'll need them if I ever go down that ski slope. But so far they are nothing but an added expense for no real reason. I've always been able to stop so far, till I get to that ski slope.
Rear suspension is not really needed in my opinion either, not for my kind of riding. I like trails, rail beds and stuff. I like the front shocks to smooth things out some but don't need the added weight or expense of the rear suspension.
Aluminum, frame, front suspension, thumb and trigger shifters, is about all there is to worry about. The standard bikes are geared pretty well for the average person, the brakes are good, if they are not afraid to mention the model name on the derailers they are probably OK.
When they say SRAM or Shimano, that means that it is the cheapest no-name crap that SRAM or Shimano makes fort walmart bikes.
Also...that mongoose, I think when they are talking about the levers they mean the brake levers.
Actually, I say spend twice that on a Trek or a Giant, buy it from a shop, get a couple of free tune-ups, get one that is actually the correct size for your body so you can adjust the seat and stuff so you are comfortable. Get one that is not built out of complete junk.
If the shop doesn't take careful consideration about sizing the bike correctly to you find another shop.
Probably a Trek or Giant or other similar brands will have the mounts for racks and stuff on them so it is possible to mount saddle bags or a basket or something, possibly fenders. My cheapo mountain bike has all that stuff.
That green mountain bike of mine you see in all the pictures, I paid about $300 for that new in 05. I have put a bottom bracket in it and just put new brakes, chain, and a freewheel on it. All together I have put maybe $60 into it doing the work myself. It rides like a new bike as it sits right now. I would guess and say there is 2,500 miles on it.
Bottom line, don't cheap out. You don't have to spend thousands but don't go to sears or k mart or walmart. If you have a problem with it (and you will) who are you gonna go to, the 15 year old kid that put the bike together in the back room for minimum wage so he can buy more beer and dope? You will end up at a bike shop and they will be glad to fix it up for you for a couple hundred dollars.
Bike shops and a little more expensive bike is not failsafe, but you have a hell of a lot better chance of getting something that will work correctly and not just discourage you from riding.
Disk brakes are not needed for the kind of riding you or myself do, well, maybe I'll need them if I ever go down that ski slope. But so far they are nothing but an added expense for no real reason. I've always been able to stop so far, till I get to that ski slope.
Rear suspension is not really needed in my opinion either, not for my kind of riding. I like trails, rail beds and stuff. I like the front shocks to smooth things out some but don't need the added weight or expense of the rear suspension.
Aluminum, frame, front suspension, thumb and trigger shifters, is about all there is to worry about. The standard bikes are geared pretty well for the average person, the brakes are good, if they are not afraid to mention the model name on the derailers they are probably OK.
When they say SRAM or Shimano, that means that it is the cheapest no-name crap that SRAM or Shimano makes fort walmart bikes.
Also...that mongoose, I think when they are talking about the levers they mean the brake levers.