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Submitted by
Joseph J.
a Cross Country Rider
from Bath, SC, United states
Date Reviewed: May 8, 2009 | | Favorite Trail: | Anywhere that can be rode | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | From owner | | Strengths: | Alright sometimes | | Weaknesses: | Too many mechanical flaws seems lke it's trying to kill the rider. | | Similar Products Used: | XR200 is much better | | Bottom Line: | Started out good for the first week of ownership then when I blew a tire and changed the tube for some reason the wheel was very hard to align and would gradually miss align with more miles no matter how good I put the wheel on. Causing it to rub the break pads and Ill-handling.
Then other problems such as the grip shifters are total crap because just one month into ownership the shifters were useless. The thing would practically start shifting it's self into higher gears on the back. Then the Front did the same and the Grip shifters actually resisted my hand and eventually wouldn't move for hell and high water.
It was so bad I dubbed mine the Blue-Devil because it seemed like it was trying to kill me.
I scrapped that piece of sh*t and revived my old XR200 | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dan
a Weekend Warrior
from Park City, Utah, USA
Date Reviewed: September 16, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | None unless a trip to the emergency room | | Weaknesses: | EVERY THING
It is as Heavy as a suburban | | Similar Products Used: | None this bad | | Bike Setup: | Jamis Dakar XLT, Fox Float fork, Fox Float rear shox, SRAM x7, Hayes disk brakes | | Bottom Line: | This bike was OK for the first week, That is true because i didnt use it the first week. But i was riding it up hill and the gears like to slip and i hit my knee so hard i had a big bruise for what seemed like three weeks. Also whwn going downhill i had to make sure i was standing up or else i had a swollen member for a couple of days.
So basicaly when going down i hit a small bump and the pedals fell off, i crushed my balls, the front tire tacoed in like butter, the shock bent when it hit the ground, and my face hit the asphalt like a hammer, I hadd to have many stiches and some dental work, I am very upset with the product and cant belive that there arnt any regulations agains it
this bike has put me in a great amount of hurt and i love my new bike. If i could i would give this bike a Zero chili
Do not buy this bike | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom Winkley
a Weekend Warrior
from Waldoboro, Maine, USA
Date Reviewed: February 26, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$120.00 | | Purchased At: | Wal-Mart | | Strengths: | The brakes are good. Handle bars ain't too bad. Frame is pretty light. | | Weaknesses: | Tires, suspention could be better. Shifting really needs to be better | | Similar Products Used: | FX Blur(stunt bike) | | Bike Setup: | Stock | | Bottom Line: | Ok I have no idea what the hell you people are doing with this bike. I've had this bike for three years or so and haven't had any problems with the frame or brakes. Hell I do brake slides sometime. I've ridden this thing off five foot jumps without any probelms. Well the sit didn't feel too good and I don't think I'll be having kids for a while. I mean alot of people that some how break the frame must have cut the thing before hand or something. My bike has lasted trips off a dock into salt water, slaming into rocks, and other stupid things I have done with it. The only real problems I've had is the tires ain't that great and shifting gears is a pain, I only use two or three gears anyway. I'm starting to look for companies that have better parts for it. Mainly tires, seat, and that cool front fork that looks like a dirtbike fork. I'm one of those people who doesn't believe in buying a bike that costs the same as a car. Mongoose knew what it was doing with this bike. After spend alittle more money on this bike and I think I will have a very sweet ride. I think this bike is one of those good bang for you buck things. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Anthony
a Weekend Warrior
from Cookeville, TN
Date Reviewed: April 13, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Walmart | | Weaknesses: | Its has a very heavy frame, brakes could be better, and front suspention could be a little stiffer. | | Bottom Line: | I had a Giant Attraction(an old racing MTB) bike until it was stolen. I bought the MGX bike when i went to school and have had no trouble with it mostly. the only thing that i have messed up on it is the inner rim assembly of the rear tire, and that was only because i was stupidly riding down a large flight of stairs. The basic componets (although mine came with some parts that were a little better quality than normal) are good with a few upgrades such as new tires and rims, i haven't had any of the trouble some of the other people have talked about (to tell you the truth, i hardly believe half of the people that posted on here have really tried the bike out). Most of you people that post on this bike are just trying to look cool bashing a bike because you all have some extra expensive bike. This bike wasn't ment to be compared to something that is obviously out of its class. However, this is not the best bike money can buy obviously, it does what is asked of it, and i have put it through a few extra treats other than street riding (i.e lots of high curbs, lots of jumps), although the rims and tires are not the stock ones.
Obviously if your an experienced MTBer you would buy something else, but this bike has done everything i asked of it and a bit more with fairly no trouble. If i still had my Giant i am pretty sure it would run circles around this bike, but overall this bike has lived up to my expectations. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Larje Penaz
a Racer
from TX
Date Reviewed: April 4, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | Academy (for sports and outdoors?) | | Strengths: | Are you joking? | | Weaknesses: | The fact that this is actually sold as a rideable bike. | | Similar Products Used: | none similar...maybe my plastic roller skates when I was a kid | | Bottom Line: | Went to academy for some fun one day. After honking all the tweety bird and other various looney tunes horns, I saw this bike. I pulled it off the rack and the tires probably had about 10psi in em. I started laughing so hard i couldnt see straight becasue this bike was such a pos. After riding about 10 feet down the isle I tried to bunny hop (which was easy since the suspension was already bottomed from my weight on the bike) upon landing the front tire ripped off the rim causing the rim to scrape across the tile floor. I ended up sliding into the baseball bats and scattered them about the store pissing off all the sales people and making a huge amount of noise in the process. I ran out of there and have never been back since. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BIKE SHOP AND DO NOT EVER BY A DEPARTMENT STORE BIKE. THEY ARE NEON PAINTED PIECES OF SH*&. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John
a Cross Country Rider
from Whitesboro, NY
Date Reviewed: April 1, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | All of Upstate NY | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | 120.00 | | Strengths: | Good if you want to kill yourself | | Weaknesses: | Too many to list | | Similar Products Used: | Other pieces of trash and my beloved Treks and Fishers | | Bike Setup: | stock | | Bottom Line: | This is the perfect bike if you want to kill yourself. The frame craked, the crankset kept loosing up, of all things, and of course shifting, what shifting. The suspension wore out in no time, and of coruse the wheels were unture most of the time I was riding the thing. I bought a USed trek 820 hardtail that has survived over 3000 miles of trouble free off road, and urban assualt trips for only $150. The key point, your life is too important to destroy by using a deathtrap like this. Trust no new hardtail under $200, muchless a suspension bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dennisd
a Cross Country Rider
from Cornwall, Ontario
Date Reviewed: November 18, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Brockville backcountry | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | saw it at walmart-go figure | | Strengths: | It's entertaining to watch it self destruct | | Weaknesses: | Suckers decent hardworking people who want to try a cool sport into buying totally useless junk | | Similar Products Used: | Sears supercycle, God forgive me, for I have sinned against you. | | Bottom Line: | I saw this bike being ridden by a guy at work. We were talking about it at breaktime and I asked him if he liked it. His basic line was that he bought it to commute with because he couldn't afford a car right now and this "bike" looked cool at Wal-mart. I commute to work on my GT hardtail so I thought I'd ride with him on the way home. I was behind him pedalling easily while he was huffing up a storm when he hit a medium sized pothole at an intersection. Well, what happened next, you had to see to believe. The front rim just caved in! Then the handlebar bent down about thirty degrees on each side, then while he was desparately trying to control the bike, he tried to pedal forward when his right pedal just broke right off! Good thing we were going home on the evening shift, if there had've been a lot traffic he could have been killed, no problem.
Needless to say he took the Mongoose back the next morning and had his money refunded. We went together to a decent bike shop and I picked out a nice Specialized aluminum Hardrock for him. He ponied up with his credit card on the spot. On the way to work he couldn't stop grinning, this was the best ride of his life!
He didn't know a lot about bikes, but in this case, ignorance is NOT bliss. I see so many people around this small city riding what amounts to a hazard. Every time I go to my local shop 95% of the bikes in for service are similar to the Mongoose disaster: bikes bought at Walmart or Canadian Tire or some "box store".
This has stopped being funny to me a long time ago. I once rode the exact same junk, and I never rode unless my car was in the shop and then I hated it. Until I went to a decent Bike shop to look around, it was a revelation let me tell you. Please, please do not go to a box store to buy a bike, ever. These things are actually dangerous, and I'm sure a few people have already been killed, and the retailers sued. But it's all been hushed up by the box store industry which doesn't want to be held accountable. Don't be a victim. Go to a decent Bike Shop and pony up.
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Submitted by
bike freak
a Weekend Warrior
from Alaska
Date Reviewed: November 9, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | messing around in our "big backyard" | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$250.00 | | Purchased At: | Sam's club | | Strengths: | the frame and the looks | | Weaknesses: | r. derailler brakes suspension tires place of water bottle rack crank heavy | | Similar Products Used: | if i used another product like this i might have killed myself | | Bottom Line: | i got this for my bday and i thought it was the coolest bike ever(i had never done any MB before). I rode it, and rode it and rode it. i had at least 10 flats in the first summer i rode it and that was just going to my friends house and back. Im pretty sure this thing has caused any hopes of having children gone away. My friend who also started like me has a new kona stuff and i just got a Schwinn Moab disc SL and now we are just loving the ability to actually go 10 feet from our houses without getting hurt/breaking something.
If you r looking for something to learn with, this is a good starter but make sure u have some money to buy at least a half-way descent bike after a couple of trips to the emergency room and at least hundred dollars of repairs.
DONT WASTE THE MONEY!!!
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Submitted by
Hobar Frozbog
a Downhiller
from Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Date Reviewed: August 15, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$89.00 | | Purchased At: | Wallgreens | | Strengths: | Paint color | | Weaknesses: | Pedals , frame and the thing that makes your chain move to the next wheel thing. | | Similar Products Used: | Huffy, Murry Sport, Full Force | | Bike Setup: | Stock - Assembled at the store - by trained professionals | | Bottom Line: | The pedals are the main weakness. My first time out I went off a jump that was probably outside of my experience level. When I landed the pedals and my shoes came off and I came straight down on the bar. I stayed in the fetal position for what seemed to be about two hours. I bent the frame with the excruciating nut smash. I wish they made a Lizard Skin ball protector. Maybe put it on the bike, maybe put it on you - whatever they come up with, cause I need some nut protection with this pile of crap between my knees. I had to walk this down the hill and I got hit in the back by another cyclist. Him and his buddies started making fun of me and squirting me with their backpacks. Finally the guy who hit me told he was doing me a favor and threw my bike down the hill. Then he beat me with his pump and told me to get off his mountain. So I bought another one and went back cause the trails are for everyone. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dilford Singer
a Downhiller
from boring, OR, USA
Date Reviewed: July 31, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Crack in ass | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Purchased At: | k-mart | | Strengths: | HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHHAAhooohooohahhahaooooheheeeehaha....whee..that's funny | | Weaknesses: | Here's the story, as a DH rider, I thought it might be fun to ride a bike that is an extreme opposite to the bikes Iride. I was riding through town, on the test ride. I rode up a curb and all went to hell. My handlebars cracked, the plastic cranks shattered, the frame broke in half, the rims crumpled under all that immense stress. Not to mention the front fork busted off and I went flying into the pavement. While crashing, I managed to land on a piece of the broken, splintered frame and it stuck into my left shoulder. The last thing I remember was a white flash, then black...Due to this freak accident, I am longer able ride any bike at all thanks to this bike!! | | Similar Products Used: | Kona Stab Deelux, Intense M-1, Hanebrink 14" travel, Hope disc 8" rotors, all the best stuff | | Bike Setup: | POS components | | Bottom Line: | The biggest mess of bike I've ever set my eyes on. I cant even see my mongoose would waste anything on this pos. If it were an option, I would give it zero flammin chilis!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
BAM
a Downhiller
from Boalsburg, Pa
Date Reviewed: July 11, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | The Edge, off of Midstate | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | The Wal Mart in Clearfield | | Strengths: | Hehehe, You're kidding right? Well the one I rode was shiny and red. | | Similar Products Used: | I once went sleding on a cafeteria a tray, and that was a better ride. | | Bike Setup: | I'm no pro bike mechanic, but doesn't the left brake lever usually apply pressure to the front wheel? | | Bottom Line: | Around 2 am one morning last summer, some frinds of mine and I found ourselves in a Wal Mart to purchase some chairs for the vacation we were taking the next day. However we promptly found the Mongoose rack sitting next to some hockey sticks and an empty area where a display was to be changed. To make a long story short we pulled the bikes off the rack and had a great time playing bike polo. Until the employees figured out what we were doing. While dashing through the aisles on my tank I forgot that the brakes had been assembled wrong and jammed the front brake by accident launching me head long into a display of Wranglers. In the wreck, front brakes got ripped off their mountings and the rear deraileur got broke off. Realizing my rig was toast I promptly jumped up and bolted from the store to find my friends waiting outside with the engine running. The moral of the story....Sitting on the beach with out chairs causes sand in the ass. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
steve cannon
a Cross Country Rider
from south canyon
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | canyon river | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$120.00 | | Purchased At: | wal mart | | Strengths: | what the hell are you talking about! the only thing this pos is good for is ghost riding down the canyon brakes are okay, frame hasn't broken yet | | Weaknesses: | you name it anything on this POS the shocks stick and leak, sitting on the seat feels like sticking a rock up your ass, the shifters have minds of their own, the tires bearly go up a curb, heaavy as hell | | Similar Products Used: | nothin' this bad | | Bike Setup: | manufacture | | Bottom Line: | don't let the decals and sparkles fool you this thing is not worth the trouble of picking up off the street if it were free you'll end up spending more fixing this piece than buying it why would you buy a bike a teenager did a helf ass job assembling while he was picking his ass an entry level hardtail is better this this fancy junker | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jared
a Weekend Warrior
from chester, nj
Date Reviewed: June 29, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Purchased At: | Costco | | Strengths: | None, maybe the impressed looks when riding with total idiots. | | Weaknesses: | Crank, Front Wheel, Pedal fell off with no misuse. Heavy as Titanic. Components are fake (the seat tube is literally a tube) including back shock (which has shortened considerably) and the rock-heavy bar ends | | Bike Setup: | 2001 Trek 4300 w/ addons | | Bottom Line: | It stinks | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dan Tetreault
a Cross Country Rider
from Bristol, CT. USA
Date Reviewed: May 5, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$250.00 | | Purchased At: | Sports Authority | | Strengths: | Obviously the price, strength of frame | | Weaknesses: | shifting, total weight of bike | | Similar Products Used: | first full suspension bike | | Bike Setup: | No extras!! However the bike came from the store is how I ride!! | | Bottom Line: | This bike is heavy as hell. There is just no way around it. I've read a lot of reviews though saying that department store bikes will fall apart and all this crap. But I haven't had any problems other than gears slipping under uphill pressure. A friend that I ride with bought a Specialized Enduro and upgraded almost everything on the bike and he has had more problems than I have had including gears slipping uphills. You don't need the most expensive bike on the block to ride just the best lungs!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sideshow Jim
a Cross Country Rider
from Sacramento, Ca 95825
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Salmon Falls | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | Costco | | Strengths: | shiny paint, fool suspenion. | | Weaknesses: | garbage through out | | Similar Products Used: | all the other Costco crap | | Bike Setup: | stock | | Bottom Line: | I use to work at Costco. I built those pieces of crap. What is even scarrier is who also built them. atleast I tried to tighten down the screws properly. I saw a dozen bikes go out onto the floor with the front skewer tightened by screwing it tight with it in the open position. I also saw a pedal get threaded backwards into the crank because one side had the standard reverse threads. This bike also went out onto the floor. These bikes sold by the ton. However half of them came back. sometimes for stupid things like a flat tire or mis shifting due to cable strech. Other times the bicycles would come back looking like a prezel with mud representing the crispy crust( or was that blood)? People would ask me if the bikes were any good and I would come straight out and say that they were childrens toys. % minutes later I saw them wheeling them up to the front end. I risked my job telling the truth and still people bought them. I told people to go to LBS's and they responded with "I don't want to waste my money". i was reading the reveiw from the poor fool in Auburn, CA. I probaly told him not to buy it. What burnt me the worst was when some old roady was asking question and I told him to go over to City Bicycle Works or Persision (bicycleproducts.com) and buy a Trek or Fisher. His responces was " Last time I checked, Treks were a junky bike". Tell Lance Armstrong that! Got to go, the computer lab is closing and I graduate in less than 3 weeks.
P.S. ESP 9.0 kicks ass! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Beau Johnston
a Weekend Warrior
from Moscow, Id
Date Reviewed: April 25, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | boise's #4 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$300.00 | | Purchased At: | costco | | Strengths: | uses, for the most part some good components, like shifting, and suspension.
cost
ready for disc brakes
| | Weaknesses: | bottom bracket goes out with in a little while.
the suspension flex is weak, and bottoms out easily
too heavy
and the rear arms are very bulky and could be less bulky.
front fork too soft
utilization of space is bad
hard to tune, rear arms get in the way, and make it hard to get a driver in to the front derailleur
| | Bike Setup: | full suspension | | Bottom Line: | it is a good bike to get if you are scraped on money, and have a deal for Costco. design should be rethought, and do away with heavy components | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
bob epley
a Downhiller
from peo
Date Reviewed: February 15, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | oregon | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | tradin post | | Strengths: | bucket seats, massage beads, american racing rims, roll bars. once you get goin on this 1-ton rig, you can plow pedestrians like stepping on ants. | | Weaknesses: | small gas tank | | Similar Products Used: | yugo, station wagon, geo metro | | Bike Setup: | its perty. | | Bottom Line: | this bike is at its best dropping off cliffs........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................750 feet high ones with a hard flat surface at the bottom. Thats what i do and film it with a dummy riding it. its cute. email me if you want to see the footage. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Aaron Wilkinson
a Downhiller
from Olympia Wa
Date Reviewed: January 31, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | trail 6 in capitol forest | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$300.00 | | Purchased At: | coscco | | Strengths: | the frame is really strong and its a good get-around-town bike | | Weaknesses: | no bearings in the rear pivots none of the bearings are sealed. The front RST fork leaks from the bottom and locks up the rear suspension has barely any travel and the bike is practicaly a hardtail and it has cheap shimano components | | Similar Products Used: | roadmaster | | Bike Setup: | shimano drive train. Clipless pedals that i bought separatley cosco | | Bottom Line: | if youir gonna buy a bike that you want to race, dont buy an mgx. if you want it for easy trail riding its ok. try riding a santa cruz super 8 dh bike with 7" of front and 81/2" of rear travel and hayes hydrolic disc brakes and then ride an mgx. you'll never want to ride an MGX again. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ben Wright
a Weekend Warrior
from Uhrichsville, OH, USA
Date Reviewed: January 15, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | any where with this bike | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | WAL-MART | | Strengths: | EVERYTHING | | Weaknesses: | NONE | | Similar Products Used: | NONE | | Bike Setup: | WAL-MARTS SETUP | | Bottom Line: | I LOVE THIS BIKE.EVERY ONE IS WRONG. THIS BIKE RULES. THE ONLY THING THAT BENT WAS THE SEAT BECAUSE I RECKED. BUT THAT WAS EASILY BENT BACK IN PLACE. I WOULD ECOMEND THIS BIKE TO ANY ONE. MOST PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD $300.00 BIKES. SO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PUT THIS BIKE DOWN ARE WRONG | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Adam got a new bike
a Cross Country Rider
from sacramento cal
Date Reviewed: December 29, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Granite Bay | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Purchased At: | costco | | Strengths: | well lets see it can be used as scrap metal, fish hooks and i bet you can make two huffys with it because it is so big.O ya by the way my new gary fisher sugar eats it for breakfast every morning. | | Weaknesses: | EVERYTHING
1.i snaped the deraler within the first week i got it.
2.the shocks where out during shiping
3.the back shocks are made from pipe cleaner
4.the handle bars are antiqe gun barrels
5.the frame wheighs as much as me | | Similar Products Used: | huffys
giants
roice union
target
x-games
k mart
wal mart
| | Bike Setup: | now my bike looks like this
@!#@#%*(#$$^$&#*^^^$$^$)&)^$$@#@
in other words trash
| | Bottom Line: | here is my story.
one day i was with my parents shopping at costco.We saw those bikes and were suckered into buying two because it was pretty.About 2 weeks after we bought it i started mountain biking.i was good but my bike sucked.i could not climb hills at all. i do not know how i managed to make it alive.thats when all the bad started rolling in.my derailer broke, my shocks wore out and my petals fell off.i spent as much money replacing this crap as my bike. then everything else broke so i decided to buy a new bike.i spent a little bit more money and bought a gary fisher sugar.now my new bike eats my mongoat for breakfast. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Doug
a
from CA
Date Reviewed: November 22, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Bottom Line: | Well, everyone has already covered the best advise - Don't buy this crap.
Do yourselves a favor and spend a few minutes to look over everything on this bike very carefully. The frame. The drivetrain. The wheels. Then spend a few cents in gas and drive over to your local bike shop. Now look over a basic hardtail very carefully. See??? The differences in quality are so incredibly obvious that I know you will see it. Now you are at the bike shop. So go ahead and buy that hardtail, take it out to your local trail, and enjoy this sport like God intended.
As the bike sticker says - If Huffy (or whoever really makes this crap) made an airplane, would you fly in it?
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Submitted by
Kenji
a Cross Country Rider
from Berkeley
Date Reviewed: November 21, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | NOTHING! There is nothing on this bike that is really in any way redeeming. Not the price, whatever you pay its still a rip off considering the cost of the new parts and labor required just to make it ridable, let alone decent. | | Weaknesses: | Frame, shock, components, cost, service, reputation, build quality, EVERYTHING. | | Similar Products Used: | I would never try anything even remotely comparable. | | Bike Setup: | Generally they set it up at Costco with any number of errors (in MB Action, they show brake levers on backwards!). Costco offered the shop I worked at something ridiculous like 10 bucks to build these bikes for them. So that tells you how much they pay their "builders." They ought to give you an instruction manual and leve it in the box, you certainly couldn't do worse. | | Bottom Line: | I am putting this up for the benefit of the prospective MGX buyer. DO NOT, EVER, EVER BUY THIS BIKE. If you see it lying on the street, with a sign saying "take me", RUN LIKE HELL. Not only is it a piece of junk it is a death trap and a money pit. I've seen countless people bring it into my bike shop for "repair." I always want to tell them to throw it away, but instead I have to figure out what broke this time, or was put on wrong. Don't delude yourself about the frame either. THE FRAME ALSO SUCKS. SO DOES THE SHOCK. Just because it is shiny or hasn't bent doesn't mean it is good. This "thing" weighs over 40 pounds, almost twice what a bike should. This bike is heavy, crappy, handles poorly, its shocks rob you of power and bounce, it will need new parts every 10 miles... The good people at Brunswick sell more of these than all the other Mongooses, and make a profit. It is not cheap or a good buy, it is not really repairable either. You will just wind up buying new parts again and again... Buy the cheapest specialized hardtail or real mountain bike if you must pay little, or better yet buy a used bike. This bike is not even planned obselcence... it will never function like a real bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
al
a Cross Country Rider
from issaquah wa
Date Reviewed: November 11, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Beaver lake park | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Looks neat | | Weaknesses: | EVERYTHING else | | Similar Products Used: | Why would i go do a dumb thing like that | | Bike Setup: | costco | | Bottom Line: | I cannot believe this bike. I wiegh 120 and nearly killed the frame. Not to mention the bad pedals that fell of twice. Ok price but go buy a hard tail and live to see another day. If someone tells you you have a nice bike and you are riding this piece of poop THEY ARE MAKING FUN OF YOU. This bike is not pricey, but your hospital bill will be | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SJ
a Weekend Warrior
from Upstate NY
Date Reviewed: September 29, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Yeah,right!!! | | Weaknesses: | EVERYTHING about this bike is:
1)Heavy
2)Cheap
3)Useless
4)Weak
I assure you,the first one you buy and break SHOULD BE THE LAST ONE!!!! | | Similar Products Used: | Nothing this lousy!! | | Bike Setup: | A Specialized Rockhopper(You think I would waste my hard-earned money on this piece of department store crap?) | | Bottom Line: | DO NOT EVER BUY THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE,OR ANY OTHER DEPATMENT STORE BIKE!!!It wouldn't even make a decent lawn ornament!!!
I'm sure the once-reputable Mongoose company is shaking its head in remorse over how badly they were screwed!Lord only knows how their name made it onto a bike which is very obviously a Huffy/Magna/Pacific/Next,etc.I urge you,go to a real Mongoose dealer and you will find the bikes deserving of the Mongoose name,quality bikes with absolutely no relation to this crappy bike intended for brainless kids or extreme posers!
Need more proof?Walk into any Wal-Mart.Pay no mind to the cries of bewildered and enraged adults,the screaming brats,and the bonehead staff,and go straight to the Returns section.There,along with various broken squirtguns,screwed-up electronics,and other assorted worthless detritus you will find...
LO AND BEHOLD,these destroyed-after-1-week Mongoose wannabes!!!
In all seriousness,if you want a real bike,STAY MILES AWAY FROM THE DEPARTMENT STORES.After you're sold out by these fools,they don't care what happens to you or the lemon they just sold you,buddy!!THEY ARE IN IT ONLY FOR YOUR MONEY,totally unaware that they are destroying our sport.If you want a bike,get out there,scrape up the money you've earned,and spend it on a decent product assembled with loving hands at a bike shop that is dedicated to the sport, just like you are.YOU WON'T REGRET THE EXTRA COST--because you will get a solid product,NOT just some excremental garbage that some 20-year old idiot assembled while under the influence of a massive crack dosage!!
1 chili is WAY too much for this!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chris
a Cross Country Rider
from Salem, MA
Date Reviewed: September 26, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | HA, HA, HA, HA, HA ,HA!!!!!! | | Weaknesses: | Pick a part on the bike, and there you have it! | | Bike Setup: | Barely | | Bottom Line: | DO NOT EVER, EVER, EVER BUY THIS BIKE!!! When I first heard that Wal-Mart was carrying Mongoose I couldn't belive it, so I called them to find out the scoop. I asked for the bike department and got some kid who knew as much about bikes as I know about nuclear science(not a lot). When I asked him what kind of derailleurs it had, he didn't know what I was talking about. I explained what I was looking for and he said "Oh, she-she-she-something". I said shimano? he said, yeah. Well which shimano. I dunno, he replied.
And you want to buy a bike that this kid built?
Oh, and by the way, DO NOT BRING THIS BIKE TO A REAL SHOP TO HAVE IT TUNED!!! Believe me, they do not want to see these things. Especially if they carry the respectible mongoose products (if their reputation isn't already tarnished by this fiasco of a bike). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Cross Country Rider
from Yorba Linda, CA
Date Reviewed: September 16, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | Costco | | Strengths: | The price, and the oh-so-pretty paint job. I hear the brakes work. | | Weaknesses: | Where do I start? The frame. It sucks. Some of you people think the frame is one of the better parts of this bike but that frame will bend. The wheels, suck, as you know it. The drive-train, sucks too. The soft, springy rear shock? Or how about that POS undampened springy front shock? The tires? No, they suck too. The pedals? Can they stay on the bike? The heavy handle bars? Or the aheadset? Oops... Weight. Shimano's worst ever components. The fact that some 16 year old did a half-ass job slapping that thing together. The fact that people snicker at you when you ride this thing. | | Similar Products Used: | Haro Accent, Trek 820 Antelope, GT Outpost, Mongoose Crossway 350L, Gary Fisher Sugar 3 | | Bottom Line: | Don't buy this bike. Really, it is a POS. The mechanics at bike shops always whine about these things. Listen to everyone. Don't put high end Deore derailers and nice shocks on this thing. BTW, someone here thought this thing came with an LX derailer that sucked - not true (doesnt come on the MGX, and LX doesnt suck). Don't put money into this thing. Don't buy it. If you can, spend 300$ on a entry-level hardtail. It will last 100x longer, outperform, and give you your $'s worth. Or, if you HAVE to spend only 100$ on a bike, get a Huffy or some other department store hardtail. At least it will work. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
andrew bryan
a
from bettsville oh us
Date Reviewed: August 30, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | demon drop | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$140.00 | | Purchased At: | WAL MART | | Strengths: | Good looks,and fast | | Weaknesses: | deralur is messed up it was like that when I bought it, front shock is not springy,THE LEFT PEDAL COMES OFF NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU PUT IT ON !!:) | | Similar Products Used: | roadmaster | | Bike Setup: | Normal | | Bottom Line: | dont get one they suck | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Timbo
a Downhiller
from Houston, Tx
Date Reviewed: August 29, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Cypresswood | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$260.00 | | Purchased At: | Wal-Mart | | Strengths: | cheap! Strong frame, adjustable rear spring, shimino rapid fire shifters, Shimino V-brakes. | | Weaknesses: | Heavy, rims are just crap, derailers suck, not enough travel in front, rear spring still to soft, front springs to soft, Stock Tires(Simi-slicks suck),Shimino LX derailers, Price after modifications. | | Similar Products Used: | A Huffy (I put to much money into one) | | Bike Setup: | SOVOS rims and hubs, shimino XT derailers, Kena Hammer and Anvil tires | | Bottom Line: | You get what you pay for. Stock rims are not safe, go buy a set of aluminum rims (Sh*t creap steel rims are better than what they use) befor riding on anything more than your driveway.My rims failed (tacoed and broke) after going over a small jump on the trail. Good bike to learn about duleys on. You can make it into a good bike, but it would be cheeper to go buy a GT. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bart B.
a Racer
from Amsterdam
Date Reviewed: August 23, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | This bike will keep you entertained and laughing! | | Weaknesses: | Disposable bikes aren't good for the environment.
Very heavy but soft frame. | | Similar Products Used: | Nothing even close! | | Bike Setup: | Stock, but rebuilt for safety. | | Bottom Line: | This bike is really fun to ride to see how long it takes for you to bust it up. Someone gave me and a teammate one as a joke and we raced to see who could destroy it first.
Before riding...the shock was already dead.
5 minutes...wheels were coming out of true.
10 minutes...my frame was noticably bent.
20 minutes...I taco'd the front wheel and was victorious!
Just make sure you wear a helmet. Body armor is advised too.
Fair value for your entertainment dollar, but not as a real mountain bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
al
a Weekend Warrior
from us
Date Reviewed: August 21, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$89.00 | | Strengths: | The Frame stong will cont brake if you are on the heavy side... Decent shocks for price.. Price... | | Weaknesses: | Everything else... Derailuers stink really bad!!!!! it is also a bit on the heavy side... | | Bike Setup: | I am one of those people that do not have the money to spend on a $350 bike.. Had it re put together by a bike shop... | | Bottom Line: | Okay this bike has busted up on me a couple of times already. I only paid $89 for it and have already spent 75 on repairs... I'm trying yes people trying to fix it up... Changing all the shifters cranks and even handle bars... It is easy to make the bike what you want if you find good auction products... going to put diffrent fork on it to make it better... i have taken it down a couple of decent trails and have killed my self because of lack of experience... but you have to put a little muscle on the bike to ride it rough... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sam
a Weekend Warrior
from Gulfport, MS
Date Reviewed: August 18, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Gulf Islands National Park | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$99.00 | | Purchased At: | Wal-Mart | | Strengths: | Price | | Weaknesses: | Weight, strength, component quality | | Similar Products Used: | Cannondale, Trek, Next | | Bike Setup: | As Purchased | | Bottom Line: | Honestly, this could be a worthwhile bike. The derailers and shifters are unacceptable. I couldn't adjust the stops to deliver half the 21 speeds it was supposed to deliver.
With my 230 lb heft, I wasn't too concerned with it's weight, just strength. I was going to replace the derailers with Shimano Deore series. But the rest of the bike like the cranks, the front "shocks", etc. were SO bad, I returned it.
I purchased Wal-Mart's brand, Next, and the difference is astounding. I have a really smooth, strong, dual suspension bike for under $150. Don't beleive it? Try one out. Too bad there is no review for it here. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chris
a Cross Country Rider
from California
Date Reviewed: August 10, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Good scrap metal? | | Weaknesses: | Everything! From the 50 pound weight to the plastic cranks, this bike is pure crap. | | Similar Products Used: | Motiv
Huffy
Autobike | | Bike Setup: | crap | | Bottom Line: | Do not buy this bike. I don't care if you don't have any money or common sense, just don't! The shocks will turn into concrete after a week and everything else never works to begin with. And don't take the bike to a shop to get it repaired after you buy it because I work in a shop and believe me, we don't want to see it. Scrape the money out of your couch cusions and go buy a good entry level hard tail. This bike doesn't even deserve half a chili! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Travis Brown
a Racer
from California
Date Reviewed: August 2, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | None | | Weaknesses: | Everything about this poorly made junker. The list includes: tires, front and rear derailers, seat, frame, drivetrain, bar ends, pedals, and suspension to name a few. | | Similar Products Used: | Trek and GT | | Bike Setup: | Costco stock special | | Bottom Line: | DO NOT BUY THIS BIKE!!! I know you may be short on cash and really want to get into mountainbiking, but buying this heap is not the way to go. I actually don't own this piece, as it was a gift to my brother from his girlfriend (she may have been telling him how she really feels about him). Just save up a little more for an entry level hard tail that you can get at an actual bike shop for about $300 or $400 instead of wasting you hard earned cash at Costco. This bike is poorly built, poorly designed, and rides like a pig. After a couple rides, the thing is already falling apart because who ever built did a half assed job of it. I really hope everyone wakes up and realizes that just because you can stock boxes or work the cash register at a mega supermarket, doesn't mean that you can slap a bike together. Its dangerous and wrong!
This bike actually doesn't deserve any flamers! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jason
a Downhiller
from TENNESSEE
Date Reviewed: July 13, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | none | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | its cheap | | Weaknesses: | its cheaply made | | Similar Products Used: | MGX DXR | | Bottom Line: | i had this bike for three days and as i was riding my petal flew off causing me servere pain.But it might have been the person who put it together.I gave it a two for that reason to give it a chance.But it did break so i overalled it as one. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeff
a Cross Country Rider
from Buffalo, NY USA
Date Reviewed: July 7, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | The product has a really strong frame and the shocks arent too bad. I'm 6'4' 220 and I havent cracked the frame or bottomed out the shocks yet, so its holding up well. | | Weaknesses: | The derailluers!! Everything about them is crap! I'm thinking of buying shimano gearsets because the gears always change and really don't stay in place. I work on it alot and keep it in excellent condition so It generally runs very well. If you hit the derailuer too hard, you'll bend it all to hell. Just remember that, i found out the hard way. Always maintain your bike and make sure all cables are in place and intact. The rims are also kinda cheap, but have held up well so far. I still have yet to see how this bike holds up to a buffalo winter. | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | stock | | Bottom Line: | Buy this bike If you are short on cash and know what you are doing when it comes to fixing derailluer and braking systems. Never let a place like wal-mart or costco set up your bike, they will screw it up all to hell. Either set it up yourself, or take it to someone who knows what they are doing. It is a very good value and I would recommend it to anyone who wants head turning performance at a very low price. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
johnny
a Weekend Warrior
from escondido,ca
Date Reviewed: May 11, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | the bike looks good, feels good, and very cheap | | Weaknesses: | heavy, of cource for the price, derailers suck | | Bottom Line: | if you want a cheap bike, descent quality, and lots of fun i would recommend mgx to anyone, you get what you pay for. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
john
a Weekend Warrior
from denver,co,usa
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | makes a great conversation piece | | Weaknesses: | just about everything on the bike | | Bottom Line: | this is a great present for your ex-wife, mother-in-law, or an arch enemy. For everyone else, please for the love of god, look else where. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
JOE MAMA
a Downhiller
from NOWHERE
Date Reviewed: March 9, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | ANYWHERE WITHOUT THIS BIKE! | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | NONE!!! THIS BIKE SUX!!! | | Weaknesses: | EVERYTHING, NOTHING IS WORTH EVEN CRAPPING ON!!! | | Similar Products Used: | NONE, I DONT BUY BIKES THAT COST UNDER 2500 BUX! | | Bike Setup: | CRAP! | | Bottom Line: | DONT GET THIS BIKE, IT WILL KILLLLL YOU! IT WILL FALL APART AND KILL YOU! EVEN IF IT DIDNT (WHICH TRULY IT WOULD) I WOULDNT WANNA BE SEEN RIDING IT! MAKE FUN OF THOSE PPL WHO HAVE THESE LAME A*S BIKES!!!!! I WOULD GIVE THIS BIKE NEGATIVE 1 MILLION CHILI'S, BUT I CANT! SO I GIVE IT ONE!!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
motoX
a Cross Country Rider
from new york
Date Reviewed: February 17, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | the frame is the only good part with the beefy ass welds and good falling top tube rate.this bike atually hauls ass modified with a judy xc equipped! | | Weaknesses: | heavy side but not too bad | | Similar Products Used: | mgx m60 | | Bottom Line: | the bike transfers pedal power to the ground...but the stock parts are useless....and extremely dangerous so BEWARE.had same derallier problem and MANY others! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chris
a Weekend Warrior
from Santa Clarita
Date Reviewed: December 21, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
NONE | | Weaknesses: |
EVERYTHING!!!!!!! | | Bike Setup: |
STOCK | | Bottom Line: | Ha Ha Ha!!! this bike is a piece of crap. DON'T BUY THIS BIKE!!! Not even for you kids, it has a tendency to FALL APART. I was riding it is mammoth(what I was thinking I do not know) and the rear deralier fell apart and got caught in the wheel. i could have died. I crashed it last week and broke a lot of parts on it. PLEASE DON'T BUY THIS BIKE, its not worth the danger, even for $260. Save your money and your life. I only give it 1 peper because there is no zero rating or even negative ratings which is what it deserves. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Derryl Stevens
a Weekend Warrior
from Boise,Idaho
Date Reviewed: September 25, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Naches Pass,WA | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Good Looks, that's about it. | | Weaknesses: |
The bike is a piece of crap. Everything about basically is crap. I'm a really experienced rider and I know bikes. I would rather ride a magna than this. | | Similar Products Used: |
Motiv RockridgeMagna SuperConcorde | | Bike Setup: |
I had whatever COstco was selling. | | Bottom Line: | I would never wish this bike upon anyone. I was riding it easy and the frame still bent. The magna that I got from target for$175 had better manners than this. When I bought this bike from costco the checkout guy told me to get the bike reassembled at a real bike shop before riding it. Idid that and it made no difference. BOTTOM LINE: This is the worst bike I have EVER ridden, What a piece of Crap | | Overall Rating: |
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