Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

via here - http://www.cannondale.com/usa/usaeng/Products/Bikes/Recreation-Urban/BAD-BOY/onBike/Details/2310-OCD-onBIKE

Blue pony & cannondale are reposts.

I was thinking more of the manhours it would take to weld them and put them together.

From raw tubes and a box of finished components, the total labour cost for a Chinese factory assembled bicycle would be of the order of $10

Friends girlfriends bike I'll probably get in trouble for this but the bike needs an intervention.

^That deserves to be in anti porn.
Yellow chain, grips and deep V (i'm fine with yellow pedals, many pro's have yellow shoes)
Risers with aerospoke is just a general fail.
stickers, massive toptube protector and spoke card round out the fail.

That's why it IS in "Bike *Anti-Porn*: *When Things Go Wrong"

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That's why it IS in "Bike *Anti-Porn*: *When Things Go Wrong"

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I know this. I was reinforcing the anti-porn qualities of the bike.

New Seat, Silver Risers, Silver Chain and remove top tube protector could go along way to saving it.

Horrific

*be glad that isn't hippy's wedding he'd ditch the lady and marry the cake *

the woman who the cake-effigy is of doesn't look too impressed tbh.

I know this. I was reinforcing the anti-porn qualities of the bike.

stan-did :]

she's wonderin where to shove the knife in

got to go for some boob to start with.

Balls. She'll start by trimming the bum and waistline. I bets ya.

...close but no cigar.

Close to what? Puking?

wtf is up with the brake? I thought it was a pisstake but if they put a machined rear obviously not.
looks like the gearing would require a brake as well.

we've already been through this, go back a few pages.

From raw tubes and a box of finished components, the total labour cost for a Chinese factory assembled bicycle would be of the order of $10

The £100 bikes that were sold in shop I used to work in were built in Taiwan and assembled in the UK though.

The £100 bikes that were sold in shop I used to work in were built in Taiwan and assembled in the UK though.

OK, $8 to build and £15 to assemble.

retarded brake is a repost.

*be glad that isn't hippy's wedding he ditch the lady and marry the cake *

Id ditch the woman and fuck the cake..................You can tell she's gonna be
hard work in the years to come....that poor bloke already looks fucked........

Well for the vast majority of children, their bikes are toys and only get used for going up and down the street. You hardly need a £300 Isla aluminium racing bike for that. Also with younger kids most parents can't afford to buy them an Isla that they'll grow out of in two years.

Isla have got it right in terms of a top-end kids bike - but they're for the children whose parents like cycling, not the children whose parents might do 5 miles every other sunday between June and August. I think cheap steel-framed singlespeeds using half-decent parts could be sold for around £100 and would be mure more suitable for an everyday child's bike.

You've also gotta think that most kids, or specifically most boys, will want a proper mountain bike with suspension and a million gears.

gets pen and paper and starts scribbling down designs for cheap, sensible but cool-looking-to-a-nine-year-old bikes

My point exactly - hardly promotes lifelong active travel to the next generation does it? A toy that isn't much fun (too heavy, doesn't work properly) won't be played with for long.

I thought your point was that bikes were not toys...

I see what you're saying but the vast majority of children will ignore the decently-built 5sp and go for the shoddily built 21sp dualie because more gears=better and suspension=better and stupid stickers=better. Now if the parents do know something about bikes they'll probably buy the kid an Isla, but if the parents aren't cyclists (ie the vast majority of people), then they'll just buy what the kid wants, because they don't know any better. The reason nobody makes good cheap bikes for kids is that nobody wants them.

Now if a major retailer like Halfords got involved and started educating people about simple bikes and had their own range of £150 kids bikes, then we might be getting somewhere, but it's the more cycle-conscious people that'd be going to Halfords and they're less likely to buy a BSO in the first place. And £150 or even £100 is still a lot of money for some people.