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Ed: Your saying the same thing as me. But we are drawing different conclusions"

• Me: "Its a con, and people that don't know about bikes are falling for it, and getting disappointed when the rivets fall out of their brake levers whilst they are riding."
  -You: "Oh well. They don't know as much as us, so it doesn't matter."
  
  
  

I didn't says that the bike are unreliable i.e. part are falling off, I said it doesn't matter since the bike will still be fine for their riding style.

The downside is that certain shop are not very good at assembling bicycle, Halfords is a prime example.

I got my Kona Smoke bike from Evans in Waterloo, everything perfect, gear shift smoothly, no ratter, wheel's perfectly trued etc. and has been for a year.

it got stolen, insurance got me a Kona Smoke again but from Halford in Putney, now that Kona Smoke despite being exactly the same bike, turn out to be shit, BB rattle, gears need a lots of adjusting, brakes is too spongy etc.

sometime the reliablitiy of the bicycle are simply down to the bike shop, like the Unipack, they were shit bike, but if put together properly (i.e. greased like you said), replace BB and such, it's fine, plenty for the average joes.