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Originally Posted by Rohith Surampudi

well if you want a mountain bike, buy a NEXT bike, they are extremely resistant, and relatively cheap,but they come with shock absorbers, so if you ride your racing bike afterwords, the ride may appear very bumpy, assuming that you are just as handy with bikes as you are with robots, you could easily replace the shocks with some extrusion.

They're also toy store bikes--ie: garbage. The "shock absorbers" are going to be more like pogo sticks slapped onto the bike. He'd be much better off with a $250 or so rigid bike than a $99.99 full suspension walmart bike.