Definitely part of the problem. Unfortunately the industry has done it to itself. There is always someone, regardless of nationality, that willing to do it cheaper. It becomes a race to see who can go broke the slowest and gets to the point where your only place to save money is on maintenance...
Is there a link to the swerving to miss a car being ruled out?
Pretty sure all the above theories are possible. Everyone is quick to blame the truck, ride in one for a few weeks and you see how intelligent the public is.
Not familiar with integrity but the ones we looked at with knotty pines were 20k. Quality difference maybe? Not saying integrity isn't quality I'm just saying we liked the knotty pines options for what we were going to do
Traveled the park and the ice field a few times in the last couple years and this is no surprise, the forest there is dying, thousands on thousands of standing firewood. The same thing happened a just east of jasper 10 years ago? That hillside was dead and got hit by lightning, just like...
It's a decent all around bike, not much for roads though but light enough you can pedal it up to ride down. They were a step up from my Coiler that I still ride. Mid to entry level components, sturdy. If it's in good shape and shifts properly it's probably not a bad buy. Sky is the limit on...
I'm not 100% sure but it's either a dynasty or getec, was used for welding pipe and casing. It's not very big, about the size of the electric wire feed deals.