Any one fancy this Star Wars bike from Argos?

[Black Sheep]

OI!

My Thorn Nomad has brakes behind the fork!

are they meant to be?

 

[tyred]

In answer to the original question, I don't fancy that bike at all. Never mind the build, it's a little to small for me and not really my style

 

[Renard]

Very responsive steering though!

 

[mickle]

I never did understand how retailers got away with selling bikes in boxes for home assembly. If it takes an experienced mechanic using quality tools 45 mins to an hour to assemble a half decent bike for the road what hope does random Dad have of correctly assembling such a monster?

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I never did understand how retailers got away with selling bikes in boxes for home assembly. If it takes an experienced mechanic using quality tools 45 mins to an hour to assemble a half decent bike for the road what hope does random Dad have of correctly assembling such a monster?

none. as in my previous post, friend's daughter's bike (claud butler) had been "finished" by hubby who clearly lacked the spanners, bondhus allen keys, cable clamp and track pump needed to get the thing vaguely rideable.

worse still, i've had a kid's bike from halfords which was set up with the brake cables wrapped around the head tube, causing the back brake to come on when turning the handlebars right.

 

[numbnuts]

Apart from the front brake being behind the fork!!!

my MTB has the front brake behind the fork, Pace Forks

 

[papercorn2000]

I had that on my RC35's.

Mince.

 

[tdr1nka]

I did a bike check at my Daughter's school yesterday and two out of eight bikes had been assembled this way. Front brakes do 'work' this wrong way round but not in a way you'd want to call safe or effective.

 

[Arch]

I saw a demonstration once, on telly, where they tuned the front forks and wheel on a normal bike right round (they disconnected the cables to do it) and gave it a push, and it just rolled on and on until it ran out of momentum. Something to do with the trail of the forks making it ultra stable.

Of course, then it's a bugger to turn....

 

[beanzontoast]

I saw a demonstration once, on telly, where they tuned the front forks and wheel on a normal bike right round (they disconnected the cables to do it) and gave it a push, and it just rolled on and on until it ran out of momentum. Something to do with the trail of the forks making it ultra stable.

Of course, then it's a bugger to turn....

I just wonder - in the case of an adult bike bought wrongly assembled, if there was an accident and the bike was found to be deficient because of this, who would be to blame - the retailer or the cyclist?

 

[mickle]

Sale of Goods Act, fit for purpose, British Standard and all that. A hard thing to prove though for most folk.

 

[vernon]

I just wonder - in the case of an adult bike bought wrongly assembled, if there was an accident and the bike was found to be deficient because of this, who would be to blame - the retailer or the cyclist?

The assembler?

 

[dellzeqq]

it takes my brother about an hour to check over a Ridgeback when it comes out of the box. That includes flexing the rims and re-truing the wheels, testing the spokes with a tensionometer, resetting and relubing the hubs (they're usually a bit on the tight side), and so on and so forth....and he's being doing it for twenty years, so he's no slouch. He tells me that Ridgeback are the best product out of the box.

There are other shops that take it out of the box, put the wheels in and away you go.

I don't know what the answer is to this one.