8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great bike!!!!, October 28, 2010
This review is from: Pacific Chromium Girls' Dual-Suspension Mountian Bike (20-Inch Wheels) (Sports)
We bought this bike for our daughters 7th birthday because she HAD to have a bike with gears.
overall the bike was easy to assemble. The only issue I had was that the seat stem couldn't be lowered enough to fit to her height, I had to cut aprox. 3" off the stem because it would hit the frame shock. She is over 4' tall so I don't know why this was an issue,anyway she absolutely loves it, and for the price so do we!!!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Bike, June 13, 2011
This review is from: Pacific Chromium Girls' Dual-Suspension Mountian Bike (20-Inch Wheels) (Sports)
My girl grew out of a 16-inch wheeler, and she was riding 20-inch wheeler handed down from her brother. However, it did not have gears, so she wasn't able to follow us if we went around the blocks with hills. I thought this was a good bike and purchased it. (First time online.)
First packaging: The box was little damaged, and I don't think it just had enough to protect the contents. I believe the front wheel was little bent. The front and rear wheels weren't balanced.
Second: The brakes were little hard to adjust. After applying the brake, it tilted to one side, so the brake pad on one side would get a lot closer to the wheel than I've adjusted before.
Third: The crank was little small. Since she was used to her brother's bike that had bigger crank, she had to paddle harder to keep up on the flat surface.
Fourth: The rear deraileur did not work well. It was little tough for her to adjust the gears (little tight for me as well). It had 6 gears, but when she tried it, it hardly went to 1st or 6th gear. It would skip 2nd~5th gears. The chain came off while she was riding it.
Fifth: The saddle was little too long. Although I've lowered it fully, since the length was little long, it did not give enough room to lower it more.
It will be too challenging to return it, so I took it to the bike shop to make adjustment, and it would cost me at least $30 to adjust the wheels and deraileur. I will update more once I get it back from the bike shop.
#Update: Local shop made some adjustment, and it works little better. The wheels were balanced, and rear deraileur works better.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
few troubles, July 6, 2011
This review is from: Pacific Chromium Girls' Dual-Suspension Mountian Bike (20-Inch Wheels) (Sports)
Received bike in broken up box with rear gears sticking out and some scratches on bike(not a huge deal but definitely not good).My daughter rode the bike for 30 minutes getting used to it and the front brake bracket between the pads snapped( $20 to fix not worth shipping back).Took the bike on vacation 2 weeks later and half way through vacation the gears were stuck and wouldn't change. Bad thing it was stuck in a low gear so she couldn't pedal up any inclines.Come to find out the gear box was broken on the inside, and $40 more to fix.Bike was nice for the price before the two extras now not so sure, hopefully nothing else goes wrong.
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