Genesis 24 In. Messina Ladies Mountain Bike Pink

Builds east, rides great, perfect size for my petite wife! Looking forward to many relaxing rides…

Great price for a double disk brake bike. My daughter loves them.

It is perfect for my teen

I received the new bicycle dissembled in a sealed box. Putting everything together shouldn't be a big deal if you know what you're doing and have some prior experience. For me, after assembling everything I noticed that the gear chain was hitting the rear wheel so I had to take it to a bike shop to adjust the gearbox, the chain and the brakes for 60$ since I am not experienced with that. The quality of the bike overall is pretty good and it absolutely worth the price. It also looks beautiful and my daughter likes it.

Bike is decent for the value but the pre-assembled front breaks and the derailer requires a lot of tweaking to get them properly aligned. Manufacturer could have done all of that prior to shipping.

Decent value. Decent quality and price. Both had room for improvement

For reference I am an avid cyclist and home mechanic. I have built several complete bikes and I perform all my own service on my family's stable of six machines. I purchased this Genesis Messina for my daughter and in my opinion it is worth the $$$ that I paid for. The Frame and parts are all well manufactured for the price. I was, however, skeptical of the transmission (shifting system) as I have never heard of Microshift 26. After a few hours of trying to tune the shifting, I could not get the correct tension to keep the shifting smooth and precise. Trying different limit positions, cabling tensioning, a new shift cable, and B-tensioning, all resulted in the chain continuing to jump gears at random. I ended up changing the shifter to a Shimano ST-EF51-8R rapid fire, and now the bike shifts great, smooth, and predictably.

bike came in with a bent frame and bent spokes

Still working on assembling- directions are not very detailed and photos don't show much. I am very excited to see how it rides, however straight out of the box I realized that one of the spokes were damaged. I don't think it will affect the usage but it was a huge disappointment for a brand new bike that I just spent almost $200 on.

Simply assembly, peddles and the handle bar ?? I couldn't do it. We had to remove the front brake cable to get handlebars on and reset. The assembly took multiple tools %26 hours. And first ride by my granddaughter we had to stop riding. The rear derailleur is terrible and probably needs to be replaced. Of course we gave it as a present !! Do not purchase unless your know how a bicycle works and know how to make all of the adjustments !!!!