Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

From BR, when will car manufacturers learn...

From BR, when will car manufacturers learn...

http://www.lfgss.com/post1366269-372.html

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.

My point (a short scroll upwards) was "Most parents don't see the value though, they see bikes as Toys" (that view is then transferred to the kids)

If the kid got to test ride the "Atomic Streetslayer*" against the Isla you can bet they'd choose the Isla. When did you eveer see a kid test riding a Tesco bike?

It's not in the retailers interest to educate people, as they're doing well enough out of selling BSO's.

• I'd sort of love to have the job of naming future BSO's. I'd be shit at it though.
  

theres some ace bike names,what do you mean?
https://www.lfgss.com/thread22474.html

Pinched from bikeradar. Apparently they're riding BMX's to 'break down barriers with the yoof'. Nice concept, don't think it'll work.

awesome. thats the best pic ive seen in about 15 years.
makes me smile no end.
where can political correctness possibly go from here?
police in doo rags?
how about police on stolen bikes!
the youth would be down with that fo sho!

im loving that surly with those damn fine areospokes

Ian Condon on pegs.

how about police on stolen bikes!

In Portugal, every single vehicle apprehended from drug traffic, pretty much if crime related, it's donated by the State to hospitals, special police, etc... So yes, police driving
'stolen' goods is part of the present.

im loving that surly with those damn fine areospokes

Nice 1st post.

theres some ace bike names,what do you mean?
http://www.lfgss.com/thread22474.html

Damn, I wish I'd been keeping photo's of names - I only keep them where stuff is on backwards or the quill stem is wedged firmly into place with a bit of carrier bag etc...

so close, but yet so far.

@RHB ouch! saw one the other day that was something like, vixen temptress, on a kids bike....
that Colnagos excellent, with mint flavouring

http://www.lfgss.com/post1366269-372.html

Or the first post....
http://www.lfgss.com/post1362257-363.html

;)

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.

Perfectly sensible lever placement if you happen to have a prehensile tail, or other similarly mobile nearby organs.

sorry for the poor pic it was taken on a friends blackberry

multiple repost.

sorry cant remember seeing it, but I think its worth it

You'd better watch out of the GO BOMB FIXIE TEAM!

^ that is terrible.

This is full of win. Want.

What is it with this stupid internet terminology? "Full of with", what???

so close, but yet so far.

The stem is stupidly low, I know it's design to give a lower position, but not that much!

sorry for the poor pic it was taken on a friends blackberry

That's Freddy's.

What is it with this stupid internet terminology? "Full of with", what???

full of win.

The stem is stupidly low, I know it's design to give a lower position, but not that much!

if it was any higher it would just be a long normal stem.

I'm smirking my ass off at the GO BOMB! fixie team.