Product Description
Sporty enough for spelunking through the city, the 18-speed Pacific Exploit women’s mountain bike also offers a hard edge to take on bumpy country trails. The Exploit is equipped with a lightweight, hand-built, high-tensile steel tube frame and a Vortex front cross-country suspension fork that delivers a smooth ride over rough terrain as well as improved control. The 18-speed twist shifters, meanwhile, let you efficiently change gears wherever you ride. Other details include linear pull brakes, a three-piece crank set, an MTB riser handlebar and stem, a sport saddle, and 36-spoke silver rims with MTB hubs.
| List Price: | $129.99 |
| Price: | $109.54 |
| as of Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:50:23 GMT ***Remember, deals price on this item for sale just for limited time*** | |
Product Details
- Size: 26-Inch
- Color: Light Blue
- Brand: Pacific Cycle
- Model: 264149PA
- Released on: 2009-10-15
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 41.00" h x 23.00" w x 68.00" l, 40.70 pounds
Features
- Steel mountain frame geometry for easy control
- Suspension fork smoothes the bumps and increases control
- Torque Drive twist shifters change gears easily, 18-Speeds with Torque Drive rear derailleur for easy shifting
- Steel linear pull brakes stop precisely
- 1-Piece MTB crank offers wide gear range, Steel wheels for control and durability
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
34 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
By A. Chan
The price is good; but, and these are big BUTS!
Let me preface this by saying, I have ridden for many years with a bike club. I have also been a bike mechanic and have worked on all sorts of bikes from high end carbon fiber road bikes, to aluminum frame, chrome-moly, and good old fashion steel bikes.
I have put together many off the rack production bikes. This one by far is the worst.
DESIGN FLAW:
The geometry of the bike is such that the crank arms and pedals place are only 3 inches from the front tire. This 3 inches is WITHOUT your feet in position. For a normal 12 year old child, and I measured this, their shoe front is JUST 1/2 INCH AWAY FROM THE FRONT TIRE!!! This has disaster written all over it. I mean what child can ride in perfect foot position. The only fix for this is toe clip cage. Most 12 year old children can't ride with toe clip cages, or will not use them.
CRAFTSMANSHIP:
Each of the rims for the tires were wavy. The deviation was slight greater 1/4 from center. Steel rims are difficult to true. Even on a truing stand, you can't remove the blip. The problem is from the manufacturer. Also the decals were ripped and applied with bubbles and wiped off with a dirty greasy rag. The paint job had many dings and scratches from either manufacturing, packaging or shipping. I would think the two aforementioned.
The brakes on this bike are a joke. Linear pull brakes are cheap form of braking. Shimano has a version called the V brake. The problem lies in this: Cheap or poorly-specified linear pull brakes can suffer sudden catastrophic failure when the noodle end pulls through the metal stirrup. This will leave you with NO braking whatsoever!
Compared to side caliper brakes, these are very poor in function and design.
The components are poorly made. They are not not quality known manufacturers like Shimano, Campy, or SRAM.
CONCLUSION:
I am going to see what the company is willing to do. The problem this is a present for my child. She is in love with it. I can fix almost everything on this but the design flaw. I can only place the toe clip cages on there for her if in insists on keeping it.
Thus far, Pacific has not impressed me...nor other reviewers in this category. Looking at other models from them in this genre, 24" girl's bikes, they just don't seem to understand the market.
If I can't get satisfaction, I am probably going to look at HUFFY. For the most part, their off the rack bikes are okay.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
By Glenn Lucas
This bicycle has a major design flaw. The front wheel is too close to the pedals. Everytime my daughter (who is only 52" tall) turned the wheel, her feet hit the front tire. Very unnerving for a 9-year-old.
Amazon was great about it. They paid for return shipping and we got a better bike.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By Ms Smooches
Although the bike's initial cost was quite reasonable, it cost me almost that same amount to complete assembly. Around $80 bucks to make sure everything was assembled and calibrated properly. Once done, it's a real cool bike.
What is the weight capacity?
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