Found: Mongoose BMaX – the Mutant WalMart Offspring of BMX and Fat Bikes?

KILL IT!! KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS!!!

amazing bike. I already ordered one. just because you do not like it doesn’t mean some else might,
To each his own,

I think kids would love it

@Luiggi
LOL!

@Remi,
That’s a shipping number, not bike weight. It’ll probably only weigh 2/3 that, maybe a bit less.

Dockboy… there is not way in hell that there’s 20lbs of packaging for a 20 pound BMX bike. Maybe 10lbs but not 20lbs. That still makes for a 50lb bike for a kid that may be 50lbs. I weigh about 185. I couldn’t imagine riding a 185lb bike. Hell…I’ve rode a friend’s fully loaded touring bike at 60lbs and it was crazy heavy.

@dockboy – oh! thanks! I blew by the “shipping” part at the sight of 60lbs. I guess 45 lbs is pretty standard for your run-of-the-mill dept store bike.

I wonder if Mongoose ever has plans to offer aftermarket parts for these bikes (or any of their bikes). More often than not a kid breaks something or it gets backed over by an SUV in a driveway, and the replacement parts and labor cost 2 or 3 times the price of the bike.

So now they have a wider bb, wider tires, some strange V-brake, and a fork that probably doesn’t exist anywhere else in this galaxy and they’re setting it loose to America’s finest to destroy. Subsequently, it’s up to bike shop employees to explain the whole process to Sam Walton’s bargain hunters. How much are those tires to replace? and where do I get ’em? Why not use a coaster brake?

Dear Mongoose, what are you doing?

Who comes up with this stuff? Honestly. What a POS.

Mongoose does offer replacement parts- you just throw away the bike once it gets a flat and buy a new one. No need to fix it.

Also I am a bit of a grouch about fat bikes but slowly coming around, but there isnt a snowball’s chance that BMaX is going to catch on. 2.4’s feel great but we are talking concrete, wood, groomed dirt-not exactly areas where you need gigantic tires for traction. I second @luiggi haha kill it quickly!! And burn the body!

Mongoose has the ability to make these just as a market test, even if they break even on them its getting it talked about… its called marketing. it could of very well cost $100 to make a limited run of these.

@Timquila
You must be new around here.

As a bike shop owner and a guy who has to work on these “bikes”, I say c’mon down. Your money is green too, I’ll work on it. I’ll gladly wrestle the tire off and put in another big ‘ol floppy tube for ya.
However, the reality of these bikes is a mechanic dies just a little inside each time they have to dead-lift one into their stand. Also, there is a limited amount of mental storage space in a mechanics head for crap like this.
After rebooting my head for 2005 the file with the WallyWorld Orange County Chopper Swinn (not SCHwinn, but Swinn) is right there. I remember a lot about those… The main thing I remember about those bikes is they are like herpes. Right when you think they’re gone….

I just bought this bike today and it’s awesome! I’m 130# and not a little kid and just went off-road in the snow and dirt and it handled really well. As far as weight, it is a bit more heavy than your average BMX but as far as pedaling, it’s very easy to get going good speed. I rate this bike a 9/10. I absolutely love it and definitely worth the money.