[Closed] Klunking - a giant step backwards!

Looks fun to me!

Really? This place desperately needs an 'irony' emoticon!

Yep, really.

A bike. No tech, nothing fancy pants about it. Just go and ride. 🙂

Have you been away Captain?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/klunking-with-transition-bikes

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/clunkers-anyone

A very small step backwards - only 4 days or so 🙂

its just a Humu

Have you been away Captain?

Oops. 😳

I have been away, if that's any excuse. A week in California and Nevada.

A bike. No tech, nothing fancy pants about it.

No brakes!
I have an old Marin in the garage, complete with centre pull brakes if you want retro!

I have been away, if that's any excuse.

we'll let you off then. 😉

A week in California and Nevada.

On second thoughts, no, cos thats just gloating! 😉

Coaster brake on the rear. That's roughly equivalent to no brakes.

Looks like a just get out and ride no fettling type of bike.
Any idea of price as yet from Transition

smartay - Member
Looks like a just get out and ride no fettling type of bike.
Any idea of price as yet from Transition

This is what a £99 supermarket bike should look like. Not really convinced it's worth nearly £500 to somebody who already has a bike...

Just how gullible are MTB riders!!
Simply buy/beg an old bike, convert to singlespeed, job jobbed.
£500 notes would make a nice bike and I would want more than a coaster brake though.

Or for £50 quid less you can get this cannondale -
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Hmmm...
I have this bike already:
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Never dared to ride it off road. Strictly to the pub & back.

Hipster bike.

I can see them becoming the new 'cool' fixie, CX, etc. over the next year. Hipsters have gotta ride something different now the general public have caught up with their latest fashions accessory

oliverd1981 - Member
This is what a £99 supermarket bike should look like. Not really convinced it's worth nearly £500 to somebody who already has a bike...

All true, but lets say you ride these things with your mates down some pretty gnarly stuff and inevitably as boys do, the jumps get jumpier and the crazy stuff gets crazier and the clunkers start falling apart, so as you happen to own your own Bike company you think hey we can build something for this that won't fall apart as often, do you.

a)Try to make it as cheap as possible and risk it folding and possibly damaging the credibility of your bike brand.

or

b)Build it so it is as strong as it can be without being stupid expensive?

Given you are also a very small company so wont be making many of them anyway and it is done just because you can rather than any Global corporate profitability drive..

Looks like an old 1980's Raleigh bomber. I had one and it was great fun so yeah, I'd go for one of these.

druidh - Member

Coaster brake on the rear. That's roughly equivalent to no brakes.

Takes a while (a painful while) to get the hang of a coaster, but they are perfect for this sort of bike. Agree that it's a lot of money for a very simple bike, but then Transitions are expensive. £300 On One version?

£300 On One version?

sort of, nearly..

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Im all for less maintenance and simplicity but its just typical magazine advertised lifestyle bollocks. I agree with Deviant, Hipster shite for those with more money than sense!

Oh and no disrepect to the original Klunkers who paved the way.

I like the idea... Don't so much like the idea of coming round a blind corner and finding a dogwalker/family in the middle of the trail, meanwhile I have no brakes.

Nowhere near as bad as those Choppers from a couple of years ago that are no doubt languishing in garages (beside Audis 😉 )

Just think how cool you'd look when you stamp you back foot down and skid side-a-ways, half crossed-up to a halt spraying the family waste high in roost 😀

This is what a £99 supermarket bike should look like. Not really convinced it's worth nearly £500 to somebody who already has a bike...

More of a criticism of all the rubbish they try and hang on £99 bikes...

If they could bang out a decent number of them they'd be able to get the prices down I should think. Chicken/Egg

Thing is, if you don't like 'em, then simply don't buy one. it ain't manditory !

I can see the attraction of a 'zero tech' bike, but then again i'm perfectly happy (and pretty grin induced) riding my £5k All Carbon All Mountain Missile (thats a new genre i just invented btw, an "ACAMM") 😉

Oh and no disrepect to the original Klunkers who paved the way.

Really? The guys around Bellingham have been doing this for ages (building up old Schwinns and the like and racing them)and I don't think Transition are going to change the world by having a laugh and trying to sell a couple of hundred of them off the back of it.

What is funny is the price of them in the UK! They are going to be around $500 over here which is reasonable for the spec of the bike, but 500ukp in the UK? Ha ha ha.....

Is it wrong of me to want one?

another bike thats make no sense, just like riding brakeless bmx, sense no, but fun yes 🙂

walleater - Member
Oh and no disrepect to the original Klunkers who paved the way.
Really? The guys around Bellingham have been doing this for ages (building up old Schwinns and the like and racing them)and I don't think Transition are going to change the world by having a laugh and trying to sell a couple of hundred of them off the back of it.

What is funny is the price of them in the UK! They are going to be around $500 over here which is reasonable for the spec of the bike, but 500ukp in the UK? Ha ha ha.....

We're not laughing, we pay the same import price, but we have higher duty, and Government sales tax of 20% just so we can be part of Europe pretty much the same for everything, you yanks don't realise how cheap you live and fill your gas tanks..

Not sure of the singlespeed odd brakey thing ..
But all for the rigid fork.

Like it but £500 is pie in the sky I'm afraid. If I were the importer, I wouldn't bother buying any.

igrf, I hope you guys do bring them into the UK .. personally don't see issue with price or selling them ... I worked in a bike shop when SE re released the floval flyer and that was snapped up by dad's in the shop buying their kids bikes at the time .. I see this being the same kind of market.

I doubt many will see serious Klunking but they will sell for sure.

I totally want one!

I bought an old Schwinn last winter to use for a klunker build. I stripped the frame, bought a 1" steerer Marzocchi fork, and pretty much nothing else! 😳

wrecker - Member
Like it but £500 is pie in the sky I'm afraid. If I were the importer, I wouldn't bother buying any.

Actually, I love the Transition range. A friend has a Covert which I love riding. Bandits are highly reqarded and well priced. The TR bikes are very desirable. Big tags though. Bottlerockets are getting more attention care of a certain instructor. I have a real soft spot for the trans am. Lovely. Always get the colours so right too.
Have to see the covert carbon frame price before I commented on that.
I'm not a hater. I just cannot see how anyone could justify £500 on a bike like the klunker.

wrecker - Member
Actually, I love the Transition range. A friend has a Covert which I love riding. Bandits are highly reqarded and well priced. The TR bikes are very desirable. Big tags though. Bottlerockets are getting more attention care of a certain instructor. I have a real soft spot for the trans am. Lovely. Always get the colours so right too.
Have to see the covert carbon frame price before I commented on that.
I'm not a hater. I just cannot see how anyone could justify £500 on a bike like the klunker.

Yes I get what your saying, but then I don't get why some folk pay four, five and even six figures for a roadie which would fold over the first jump but not do your heterophobia any harm. Well its a risk we're going to take, we'll carry a few, what we're more worried about is what usually happens to us, we get ripped by Nukeproof once we've created a bit of noise and they take the volume sales..

Well good luck with them. I admire your boldness and secretly hope you have a large one left over reduced next year!

igrf, I reckon £499.99 is fair RRP if it's a cr-mo F+F with a decent
crank and wheelset. Plenty of BMXs sell around that price so if the part quality is equivalent I don't see the issue. I work in the trade and agree with paul78 there.

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Been there, done that. Now I ride a FS 29er.

Sometimes people ask me whether I kept any of my original klunkers. Nope. Broke them all and never looked back.

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My "Clunker".

Gets ridden everywhere.

I also have a FS 29er too.