well that cheap "mountain bike" I bought is already showing signs of fatigue, which pretty much was excepted but I thought I'd get a couple/few more months out of it.
so what I did today is went down to my local bike
shop ironically named "The Bike Shop" and ordered a real mountain bike, just like the one pictured below
It's a 2019 Trance 3 from Giant.
So I figure now I can take the old one put more of a street set up on it and use that for rides on the road when I can't make it to the trails, I'm not worried about riding it on the street but knocking it around on a trail has me a little nervous