We took a risk, and lost. The bike takes 4-5 hours to assemble. Only at that point could we test whether the gear ratios would make riding the bike home feasible. Unfortunately with only two (automatic) gears, unless you live somewhere that is really, really flat this bike will be very challenging (for us impossible) to use. And once you have taken it out of the box, and then spent 4-5 hours assembling it, you only get a store credit in return. Lise, the Customer Service Manager on duty in Geneva Ikea when I made my return likened the bike to a bedroom closet. "When you take it home, assemble it, and find that you don't like the way the closet doors swing back and forth, we are not going to give you your money back, we are going to give you a store credit." This is an interesting analogy, but it does suggest that Ikea maybe shouldn't be in the bicycle shop business! When you are buying a bike cycle shops can show you a model for testing where you can determine if the gear ratio is going to work for you without having to spend a weekend building it first! At Ikea in Geneva, you get to "test" the bike set up on a stand near the cafeteria and this did not help us understand the gear ratio!
-This is a heavy bike -no provisions for water bottle or toeclips -one option for saddle [ womens], one colour [drab] -handlebars are too wide and too high -rear wheel has no adjustment for fore\aft setting, not sure how I'm gonna be able to fix a rear tire puncture on the road and re-install the wheel with belt under high tensile load.
