BSO'S in Tesco for £50!

Steel M/Bike no suss 18 speed.

Cheap as chips but might be good for emergency winter transport.

false economy dear boy, run along now.

£1 please.

not for me - I've already got 37 bikes on the go!!! Just seen guys wanting cheap bikes on here before.

disposable polo bikes?

false economy dear boy, run along now.

Like cheap toilet paper!

disposable polo bikes?

Edmundro has a point.

Ghetto disc wheel it and you are ready to play, all for the same price as a second hand rear wheel.

Environmentally disasterous idea though. You all need to read this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/04/standard-of-living-spending-consumerism

it encourages the disposable nature of manufacturing today
instead of making something well and make it to last like the good old days ...the chinese are making crap goods that will need replacing a year down the line

que a drain on the worlds resources and inevitable death for the mankind

therefore if you simplify the equiation above .... buying those cheap bikes kills mankind DON'T DO IT

..the chinese are making crap goods that will need replacing a year down the line...

We just need them to import the Flying Pigeon here and it'll be all good;

it encourages the disposable nature of manufacturing today
instead of making something well and make it to last like the good old days...

cheap children bike are a perfect example, you be surprise how many of them I saw at the rubbish dump in Merton, and some of them doesn't look over a year old.

http://road.cc/content/feature/12692-scrapheap-challenge

ha!

Is there a kitemark type standard for bike safety?

yes > http://www.bikebiz.com/news/29509/CEN-standards-to-supercede-BS6102-by-January-09

Well, perhaps they should be more stringent.