Comments | pecosdave: Rant about bike snobbery.

pecosdave

Rant about bike snobbery.

Mar 02, 2011 17:53

This post is in response to what I see mostly on Yahoo! answers. I'm known to make really good answers to questions there and to troll a bit. I have to make lots of good answers so the trolled ones have more meaning ( Read more... )

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Indeed. iptv_tech March 3 2011, 02:00:08 UTC

Even at that, a lot of the bikes in department stores any more are the exact same bikes you get in a bike shop, the only difference being whether the guy who assembled it actually knows how a bike works or if he put the thing together in between stocking the soda shelf and assembling a tv stand.

Re: Indeed. pecosdave March 3 2011, 02:35:08 UTC

Usually not exactly the same, but the differences are usually bolt on parts. If you ride a department store bike and actually replace the parts as they go bad you'll eventually wind up with a shop bike, more or less without a single huge hit to the wallet. Of course the parts that come to mind as going bad are better these days. In the 1980's most department store pedals fell apart and kids were left pedaling on the axle of the pedal itself. I don't know of them being made like that any more. When I was a teen it was the derailleurs that screwed up. My mom's Wal-Mart Schwinn and my folding bikes both have Shimano derailleurs on them, which even multi-thousand dollar bikes tend to have, and they're not the special Wal-Mart version, they're the same ones that are on many shop bikes (but not the same as the multi-thousand ones). Indeed, mom's Wal-Mart Schwinn is a good looking bike with decent parts all over it. Are the one's at the actual Schwinn shop better? Probably, but I haven't found a single part on her bike that I ( ... )

Agreed. iptv_tech March 3 2011, 04:00:57 UTC

I've never had a problem even with derailers... All the bikes I ever had, I was able to pass along to someone else ( ... )

Re: Agreed. pecosdave March 3 2011, 06:07:32 UTC

This right here is what I was talking about!

Seriously, on sale this thing costs more than some reasonably decent department store adult bikes. Unless your last name is Duggar that "investment" will never pay off, and for them it only counts when you get grandkids involved.

You would have a hard time convincing me that was actually better than this. Sure for an adult bike it makes a difference, especially as time goes on, but how long is any one kid going to ride a 12" bike?

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