The Guardian's bike blog

Peter, echoing some other comments above, I think that you will find that cheap shit bikes will wear out their welcome very quickly. This country's full of cheap bikes that didn't keep their unfortunate owners riding. There's one very simple reason for that, apart from the safety aspect...

blah blah material fatigue blah blah squeaky blah blah 'hooked' blah blah duff

Big +1. It would be interesting to know how much difference there is between a properly set up one of these 'no logo' bikes and a properly set up 'Create'. I suspect not a lot looking at the photos. I also suspect that the mystery Chinese manufacturer is the very same manufacturer that makes Creates. I know that the big shop on Chapel Market in Islington used to sell Creates and is now selling these [strike]Naomi Klein[/strike] No logo bikes so I suspect they at least come from the same distributor.

Interestingly that shop are selling them for £250, £20 less than direct.