slabshaft

Just go to Bentonville, ride those trails, a lot of which is paid for w/ money from Wam-Lart, and I think you suddenly like the idea of their bikes a lot more. Hopefully they turn over some % of these bikes into more trail advocacy.

@Lotusoperandi: hahhhaa, I would love to see an indoor trainer for horse racing...

I’ve been to Bentonville twice for a week each time. The town is cool, good vibe, a little sleepy perhaps, and everyone that lives there seems to have welcomed B-ville’s growing role as a mtb destination. There were cyclists everywhere! Ridden Slaughter Pen a handful of times, Coler once, feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface. Everything good you all have probably read is exactly true. If any of the margin on these bikes somehow finds its way back to building more of those sweet trails, I would happily ride a Viathon HT XC for that reason alone. That the price and spec are generally on target is all the better. Bentonville would likely make any mtb’er that has ridden there a fan of Walmart.