>>76320I'm not the guy you were talking to before. This is my trip and I've used it for a while. What I said is nothing to do with the KMart origin, it has to do with the 200-dollar bike thing. Your claim the the two are equivalent is ridiculous. Your only proof is your personal bike and that is not proof. I won't both explaining the Indusrial Engineering concepts that underly that, but suffice to say that the 200 dollar bike simply does not have the amount of cash necessary to pay for the quality materials and skill necessary to fabricate those. Sometimes, however, a particular bike gets made better than the rest by simple chance and you happened to buy one and are now claiming that as the basis of your argument. That does not stand up to scrutiny.
That said, a decent bike can be had for a lot less than 1000. The claim that a 1200-dollar Trek and a 200-dollar store-brand bike are equivalent is ridiculous. You can quit being mad, I'm not insulting your bike. I'm just refuting your argument.
