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Bikes in B&Q?
My how times have changed!
Nice bit of toe overlap on that there beauty though... Should be very handy when you need to buzz your foot on the tyre to help you stop cos the brakes are so crap!
yeah that chain isn't doing much wrapped round the crank arm. 🙂
I pray these don't come to visit us for 'tightening up' as it's described.
It makes me feel like a bad man when i tell people we need to charge them half what they have paid to make the bike look more like a bike and that things will just not quite work right cause they are made of tin or plastic. argh.
Good job there aren't any logos on the tyres....
Tell me the forks not the wrong way round like the guy in the Dyfi 🙂
Same thing in Tesco today. Brilliant.
check the cable routing as well
The fork thing is great though. We went camping once and saw a girl riding round on a bike set up like that. She fell off every ten yards or so whenever she tried to turn. My son had been playing with her so I called her over and whipped the forks around, job done.
Angry dad comes over later to complain, says they were fine, brilliantly framed by his daughter riding past without falling off, happier on the bike than she'd been since she got it.
£80 or so weren't they?
Can't see they'd shift many, its a DIY shop FFS!
deathtraps.
Does it come with 10 wheels?
Can't see they'd shift many, its a DIY shop FFS!
Au contraire. They will shift literally tons of them.
thebikechain - MemberCan't see they'd shift many, its a DIY shop FFS!
Au contraire. They will shift literally tons of them.
So at least 3 of them then.
I see what you did there. heh.
This must be a deliberate thing? All the bikes I see in Tesco have the forks on the wrong way - could it be an attempt to make them less stable so if pinched more likely to crash...
DickBarton - Member
This must be a deliberate thing?
You'd hope so, but sadly I don't think it is.
I rode the Suffolk Sunrise 100 the other week, we were sorting our gear out and getting ready in the car park when a woman on a decent spec Trek complete with Rockshox fitted the wrong way round! My mate stops her and points out the problem, she just smiles and says 'they've always been like this and it's just been in for a service this week before my big ride' must have been serviced in Asda!
surely they ship like that deliberatley as they'll fit in a smaller box!?!
Did a bike ride with my local explorer scout unit on Friday. Five lads turned up, two of them on bikes less than a month old bought from Halfords. Both had the forks round the wrong way. I mean how hard is it FFS! I will be going in there tomorrow to have a "chat" with the manager...
Looks like a Jones.
steel frame, rigid 26er with riser bars... I thought you lot loved all that shizzle... make your minds up!!!!
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the forks are fine, the frame is the wrong way round though
I think ChrisWilk has got it.
They ship 'em like that to save space. Spotty saturday oik takes them out the box and affixes cables and wheels without even looking at the forks and sticks them on display.
Id be more concerned with the warning sign on the box saying 19KG!
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Was that photo taken at Blackburn B & Q, if not there's more than one store with one put together wrong. Was going to go over and have a quiet word but decided not to when I saw the people manning customer services, would have been a waste of breath.
So you would have wasted your breath and the staff were a waste of good oxygen?
Stoner - Member
Id be more concerned with the warning sign on the box saying 19KG!
Id, eh?
....the dark, inaccessible part of our personality...
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Maybe all the B&Q (and Argos) bosses ride Pace bikes. 😉
I saw a motorcycle on ebay with the forks back to front, sent a polite message to the seller only to be told thats how they are, as his mate is a mechanic so must be right..........scary!
stumpyjon - It was indeed in the store in Blackburn 🙂
[i]Id be more concerned with the warning sign on the box saying 19KG![/i]
Every now and then I've had to move a bike shaped object on a train, or leaning up on a gate or somesuch; I'm always amazed at the sheer weight of the damn things! I thought my big burly coil-sprung bike was heavy, it doesn't come close...