All-terrain versatility
With a mountain bike style flat handlebar and suspension fork, you can ride road or dirt with confidence.
Lightweight and durable
Frameset constructed with high-quality ALUXX aluminium.
Comfort and stability
Frame geometry puts the rider in a position that balances efficiency with stability on rough roads, paths or trails.
Mountain bike but not a road racing bike in Brisbane will ride ur ass bleeding withing 5km.
no thanks
Why? Interested to know.
Not sure even what you mean! This is advertising a mountain bike not a road bike so why compare?
Also a mountain bike would not have your ass bleeding in 5km….unless you took the seat off
Look, how I make my rides more pleasurable is my business and mine alone.
… It's a fine line between pleasure and pain
This is just normal price for a bottom of the range bike.
Shimano Tourney 3x7 for $549? .. come on! I think it even has single-wall rims. Might as well go to Kmart.
Shimano Tourney 3x7
single-wall rims
could you explain what this means please?
Not much of a MTB'er, but I've been considering getting into it. The Shimano Tourney 3x7 is the gear set for the bike. This particular set is at the bottom of the quality scale. The Single Wall rims are used instead of Double Wall rims to save money at the cost of durability. Double Wall rims are what you'd want if you were looking at doing rougher trails and downhill single track stuff.
Freewheel with entry-level components makes this less appealing
what does 'freewheel' mean?
easier to just google freewheel bicycle than explain
It refers to the rear cog on the bike, which is the main component of your gearing system and a common point of failure.
The listed "cassette" on this bike (Shimano MF-TZ500, 14x28) is actually a freewheel, not a more modern and preferable cassette.
The main difference is the load point on the axle, which tends to get bent out of shape on freewheel bikes, especially with heavy and/or rough riding.
great thanks for the explanation.
for a kid or someone that just goes cycling around the park, I'm guessing a freewheel setup is fine?
Does a cassette setup ride differently, or is it simply more durable and modern?
@andresampras: For an average kids bike that gets ridden to the shops and sits is a shed for months on end and hardly used a freewheel is fine
If you really plan to ride regularly, especially treated rough, jumping gutters etc, avoid a freewheel.
@andresampras: cassette also offers a greater gear range, and at over $500, we are starting to expect one.
@bargaino: I know a guy that bought an MTB with 27 gears - uses it around the local park's cycle track, and didn't know how to change gears until i showed him.
@andresampras: I had a friend who didn't even know how bicycle gearing worked… people are completely out of touch these days - I wonder how he thought cars go up hills…
@andresampras: A Freewheel is a full assembly, all the sprockets are permanently attached to the assembly, which screws down on to the axle/hub.
A cassette has the freewheel as part of the hub itself, and the sprockets slide on to the splines of the freewheel assembly, then usually held on by a lockring.
Main benefits of a cassette over a freewheel is the ease of replacing sprockets, and price and weight reduction. The sprockets are a consumable part that requires replacing, but the hub freewheel assembly is not considered a consumable part, or at least not to the same extent as a set of gears. A Freewheel requires you replace the whole thing at the same time, which makes it more expensive (relatively speaking) and complicated to replace (again, relatively speaking)
@TheRealCJ: In reality, freewheels are actually cheaper than cassettes.
https://www.99bikes.com.au/nsearch?q=cassette#?keywords=cass…
The real problems are:
- prone to bending or breaking the axle,
- a large minimum cog size. 14 teeth in this case, compared to a typical 11 on a cassette.
@bargaino: The main problem from my experience is the failure of the freewheel due to the bent axle. I’ve had two bikes with similar shimano freewheel as every day ride to work machines. Both ended up having bent axles and the freewheel failing due to worn bearings. I even replaced the axle and bearings on the first one and it failed again a couple of months later.
TLDR; Don’t buy a freewheel! Demand a cassette!
Don’t buy a freewheel! Demand a cassette!
At this price, agreed. But I see bike prices are still high, and you'll be lucky to find a bike with cassette under $500.
Look for 8-speed, then you get a cassette.
Fits in a mid tower case
No. Full ATX is needed
If you shop around you can get this from dealers for cheaper now that Giant has put them on sale
$519
$399.95