RALEIGHBikes Alysa Women's Urban Fitness Bike

Good bicycle with decent components and a light frame. It seemed to be decently lubicanted, but I'll probably repack everything after a few months of break in. The assemble itself is easy, but there are a lot of adjustment needed to get the bicycle in new condition similar to what a local bike shop may do. I had to adjust the brakes and derailers. I also adjust the reach depth for smaller hands.Another adjustment that I always make, even if from the bike shop is to tighten the spokes and true the wheels. The bike comes with okay alum rims and ss spokes, but I'm never impressed with the quality of a machine built wheel. They will not hold up to the abuse a healthy child will put a bike through without the spokes properly tightened. Btw I have pay more for wheelsets for myself than this bike.A more legitimate complaint is the inner tube failed after a month due to the cheap rubber all low cost manufacturers use where rim tape belongs. It's a shame that Raleigh puts there name on product that take short cuts like this, but unfortunately there is no longer any 1st world mass production of bicycles that exist anymore. Just a few bicycle factories in China making all the brands. Designed in Washington State. Come on, how dare you insult my intelligence! How dare you.

This was very easy to put together - took less than 30 minutes, although I don't really understand how to adjust the parts for the brakes & whatever I did seems to work okay! I watched a youtube video to walk me through the assembly, but I didn't understand about tightening & looseneing for the brakes and gears. I'm sure it's not perfect, but for a single mom I'm proud & my daughter rides this bike through the neighborhood all the time - no issues, ever - we've had for about four months now. She LOVES the color - Cyan is her favorite right now:) Super easy to adjust the seat & handle bars. Would definitely recommend.

So, this is light weight bike and I did not face any issue with shifting or such. My one observation is that the rims are a little bit bend and I had to fix that before releasing it to my kid.Assembling may take some time depending on how handy you are. For me it took around 30 minutes and another hour to make sure that is is lubricated well and making sure that it is tuned.It is lighter than steel bike frames. If you are not handy at assembling it, I recommend your local bike shop do it for you.

Great bike. I covered all the options. Buy from a local bike shop where they have Trek or Specialized, high quality stuff, and pay close to $400 or more. Go cheap and buy a 24" from Target or Walmart for say $100-$150. Go to Dick's for their line of bikes for about $200-$225. Buy used for one of the aforementioned, though given the timing of my purchase (Oct) there wasn't much available locally.So then I found these Raleigh bikes after seeing one used at a local bike shop selling for $200 with 3+ years on it. This was in between the options, a bit cheaper than the high end assuming you assemble yourself, but top notch quality on par with those. Certainly way better than all of the cheaper options, I compared specs side by side. This bike had a few things going for it that I liked:Skinnier wheels since my daughter will ride mainly on streets / sidewalks, much lighter than all the cheaper ones, preferred a 7-speed to say a cheap 21-speed from Target where more could go wrong.I pulled the trigger on it and assembled myself. It took some time but overall not too difficult. Crossbar (handle bar) needs to be lined up with your eye, brake handles set to a 45 degree angle. Things like that take extra time to make sure you have it right. The brakes were the trickiest part but I "think" I figured that out.The bike rides great, I know I have a great quality bike that will be handed down to a younger kid, then can probably sell it for $100+ in 5 years' time. No regrets, if you're in a similar position wanting to go higher end but save a bit of money you won't go wrong with this bike.

The first one I received was badly damaged. It arrived with a giant hole torn in the box and the rear detailer was badly bent at the attachment to the frame. I give most of the blame to UPS, but the packaging for this bike is not great. the parts were all bound together with zip ties but there was no padding around the bike to keep it from jostling around. It was just kind of loose in the box.We took a chance asked for a replacement.The replacement arrived OK but it has a different problem. The welds on the frame tube where the seat post goes created distortions in the metal inside the tube such that he seat post will not go in. This is a huge problem.Needless to say, I am not happy with this purchase.