I went shopping in Calais yesterday and came across this in the Carrefour supermarket at Cite Europ. (See Here)
I'm no expert and I'm sure everybody will rubbish it but as you can see many of the parts are Shimano. The thing looks solidly put together - but most of all I thought the price remarkable.
Incidentally, when I lived in France a while back, I bought an 18 (Shimano) gear mountain bike in LeClerc supermarket in Bayeux. It was to be used as a hack to save my 'proper' bike.
Five years later, I was still using the supermarket special, nothing breaking and the only maintenance was gear adjustment, new brake blocks, the usual. To be honest, I couldn't tell it from any other bike at 3 times the price. And I flogged it on eBay for £45 after I got back to the UK.........
I'm no expert and I'm sure everybody will rubbish it but as you can see many of the parts are Shimano. The thing looks solidly put together - but most of all I thought the price remarkable.
Incidentally, when I lived in France a while back, I bought an 18 (Shimano) gear mountain bike in LeClerc supermarket in Bayeux. It was to be used as a hack to save my 'proper' bike.
Five years later, I was still using the supermarket special, nothing breaking and the only maintenance was gear adjustment, new brake blocks, the usual. To be honest, I couldn't tell it from any other bike at 3 times the price. And I flogged it on eBay for £45 after I got back to the UK.........