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Old 01-01-2005, 07:32 PM   #18
Force Flow
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Originally Posted by mc2phat
My wife worked at Wal-mart. The Mongoose bikes were troublesome...a lot of returns for the front shocks. You can score a Mongoose for cheap and upgrade parts on it as you have the $$ though. Better brakes, Rock Shox, & titanium parts make them decent to own.
I've had 3 $80-$100 bikes from walmart, and none of them lasted more than a year. They usually wore out and fell apart just before hitting the one year mark. It doesn't even have enough time to start rusting.

I use my bike just about every day for pleasure or just to get from place to place. Nothing too fancy. Course, I do ride it in any sort of weather, be it snow, rain or hail. Maybe that has something to do with it...
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