Updated Review on my Bike

I want to say I'm still loving my bike commute (although the weather is not making me happy about the ride home I'm still doing it).

The bike is still a good investment for me.

However I have come to the conclusion that I need to specify that this bike does require a surprising amount of maintenance. 

This is okay for me because Groblek is a tinker gnome who has significant skill points in bike repair. He has been amazing in repairing various things as I go huh, my bike is acting funny. Honestly his biggest complaint about this is that I don't always mention an issue promptly. 

Many of these repairs may be related to the assembly of the bike (Amazon offered free assembly through a local bike shop, and the one closest to us did the assembly. It was in Sac, and I wasn't familiar with them).

But this week a part of the left brake lever broke. 

I will say warranty service is quickly sending us a replacement, but this is the tipping point where I say if you don't have a live in bike repair person, or the desire to learn how to do it it is probably less expensive to go for a more expensive bike.

I'm still enjoying my ride, and I don't regret it, but I don't know that I can suggest it to others as much as I originally did.

For those who missed it here is my original review:

https://kay-gmd.dreamwidth.org/204386.html