First off, the bike came earlier than expected but the packaging wasn't proper to completely protect the bike itself. Mine had a couple scratches on the frame, crank, and inner rim.

The setup was easy enough since the rear wheel came attached (in which it was set up for the free wheel, I had to flip the wheel for the fixed gear)

As for the bike, it rides great and has a good gear ratio for riding in the winter and will be a great workout for my road bike.
I feels like it is worth more and I am willing to put more money into it.

Bike packaged pretty much the same as all the "Brand" name companies. I find that you get your moneys worth for this bike. The frame's welds are very clean as well as the paint job. After I assembled it, I took a quick test ride:
- Ride quality is very nice.
- Accelerates as expected with this gearing
- Brakes are solid (levers and calipers)
- Nice crankset
- Very good job on the handlebar tape (comes installed on the handlebars, not all companies do that).
- Wheelset is pretty true.
- Wheels have rim tape installed.
- Wellgo plastic pedals with cro-moly spindle.
- Decent seatpost with single bolt adjustable mount, not a cheap bolt through clamp steel post.

Just minor things to mention:
- Chain looking like it's spray painted
- Chain does not come lubed
- Tires are pretty cheap, but decent quality inner tube with presta valve
- Brake pads were 2 different style, front was allen bolt and the rear was nut... Read more

I build bikes piece by piece a lot, but a friend of mine wanted a particular color scheme for a low dollar amount. This was my obvious choice. It's a low end bike, but not as low as one would think. Vilano bikes can take a beating. The only thing I can foresee replacing are the bearing cartridge in the cranks because most low enders don't exactly use the most high quality guts. As far as the frame goes... it's not heavy at all. All in all I hope that people buy Vilano, although I feel a smaller logo on the bike would make it a bit more mysterious.