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“I bought one for my son for Christmas and although he...”

Written on: 05/03/2011

I bought one for my son for Christmas and although he loves it to bits I've got to say I'm not as impressed at the paintwork so far. The orange on the front wheel has started to come off with the brake pads rubbing against it and he's only been riding it 2 months or so (with the snow being so bad here he wasn't on it much after xmas), and now it's down to the bare metal. Also, where the crank meets the body of the bike the paintwork came off near where it meets the body as it seems to have been pressing against it..this is the white bit, and it was like that after only the second day of him having it! Like someone else mentioned, the rear brake wire was too long and rubbed against his pedal stem ruining the white on it on the first day, he's only 12 and didn't realise straight away and by the time he noticed it it had came off down to the metal.

You'd think being priced at nearly £300 they'd have noticed that kind of thing in quaility control..if they have any!

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Written on: 27/06/2011

Dude calm down... It's an amazing bike.. Gt has always been amazing. The problem is that they spray their pant on and put it in an oven... They don't powder-coat cause of cost.. I've had mine since 2005 and I repainted it cause the fade was so bad after 6 years.. It was like less of neon yellow and took 6 years to fade all the way. It's a great bike and I like it but snow gets to every bikes paint.. But me.. I live in the desert where we get 6 feet of snow in 20 years... The weather kills paint and im not sure about the pedal stem... If you need to just shorten the cable that rubs and tell him to keep his feet to the outside of the pedals more cause he will wear the paint off the cranks.. It's a good bike. Just a little TLC.. put it in his room or in the garage to keep out of the weather.

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