jn46 wrote:
Decathlon sell really good products, not just cycling. The trouble is people getting over the stigma of buying one of their bikes. I remember one of my friends saying "I know they're good and well priced, but no way I can bring myself to buy a Decathlon bike"....I might have been extremely unlucky, because everything I bought from them, no matter high or low price turned out to be quite "bad", at least here in Spain. Yes they were cheaper, but the quality of the product was noticeable, and ive tried shoes, clothes and their branded fitness gear. In the end im purchasing other, slightly more expensive brands, just because they last for much longer
For me Decathlon is good if you are not going to make "a lot of use" of their products, because they just wear out much faster, from running shoes that were almost torn apart after 100km, to gloves that after 2 weeks they were falling apart, to running shirts/pants with holes everywhere... I bought a cycling helmet that broke just from falling from my desk. I wouldnt really trust much that protect my head from an accident...
So yeah, I wonder how those bikes will hold on with usage. At least its only the frame, components are the same as everyone else.
And in terms of reselling, if for any reason you have to, its going to be much harder until the trend changes