proof...
maybe a fellow forum member could send you one...if they're not sold out already.If it's any consolation, this discussion has been repeated many times over the last century.
I've got a bike magazine collection that goes back to the 1870s.
Every so often dire warnings appear in the correspondence of those magazines about the dangers of buying mail order bikes from the big retailers, to be followed by spirited defences of them by others.
The reality is that there's no such a thing as a "good" bike which can be sold for a fraction of its competition, but that's no problem so long as you're aware that you get what you pay for.
The Walgoose is so cheap, that I reckon you could have your $200 worth of fun out of it and then walk away from its crumbling corpse without any regrets. It also is promising as a basis for many a future fat special. I keep saying this - I'd buy one if they were available here (not worth importing because taxes and freight would triple the price). This bike is a bargain for all the bike butchers here.
I think the naysayers are too worried about the mythical deluded fool who will buy one and head out into the wilderness in the dead of winter inadequately prepared.
You're supposed to pay extra for thatI'm a single speeder, so any fat bike I get would be stripped down to one gear anyway. This one saves a step!