The Shortness of my Biking life
Remember how excited I was about the bikes? YAY BIKES? Basically they kind of suck ass. They are cheap and basically worth what I paid for them. First, a spoke on Ben's tire was bent. He traded it in. Then, the brake wouldn't tighten on my bike. Then, he tried to work with his brake to see if he could fix it some other way that he didn't see. Now his brake won't tighten either. He took it into Hutch's, and they said that the brake wire is stripped. BRAND FUCKING NEW, and the brake wire is STRIPPED. $10 later, they informed him he could buy a new brake, it would cost $10 and then $15 to install the brake. And then they said that it basically wasn't worth it, cause we are only going to have more problems (which seems likely, at this point) with them and Walmart bikes aren't really meant to be ridden. Granted, as Karina pointed out, they will be biased. Of course they'd love it if you bought a bike from them, right now. But still, I don't want the bike ...