Cycling

Looks like shit. Buy it immediately, so you can get your "I can have my cake and eat it too, right?" bike-buying phase out of your system as quickly as possible.

Undiluted crap

It's probably fine.

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>2016
>stem shifters

>>1028831
read the Amazon reviews, its possible to use these cheap bikes if you know which parts to replace

Personally i like nice things but i think new budget roadies are ok. They require either a degree of mechanical competence or help, as much if not more than with a used bike though.

The vast majority of people who buy these extremely cheap bikes barely ride, they languish in a garage, the wheels never get tensioned, they rust a bit, they go out of adjustment, the cables fray, the bearings all dry up and you've basically just purchased trash. If you buy a cheap new bike, you're to ride it into the ground within a few years, not lend it to mother time to trash for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHOJ2814J9Q

>>1028831
I was interested in their single speed road and folding bikes (esp. the folding one with a coaster brake). Geared road bikes, probably not.

>>1029533
There is no time in history where stem shifters were cool.

>>1028831
I have assembled that exact bike at work and let me tell you how awful it was. Not and ounce of grease came in the bike. Both wheels untrue, the brake pads are shitty, the shifters barely work (they're the kind you're supposed too move with your palm), and it was stupid heavy for a road bike. Do not buy you will immediately regret