BSO

[smithy92]

Just been to Asda in Leigh, and seen 5 bikes on display (their entire range) all of which had the forks on backwards and the brakes not attached!

Just thought i'd mention it!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Does that mean the brakes would be behind and not in front of the forks?

Just been to Asda in Leigh, and seen 5 bikes on display (their entire range) all of which had the forks on backwards and the brakes not attached!

Just thought i'd mention it!

 

[apollo179]

This idea of bsos having the front forks are on back to front was refered to in the first page of this thread and i didnt understand it then. Can anyone explain.

 

[Bicycle]

This idea of bsos having the front forks are on back to front was refered to in the first page of this thread and i didnt understand it then. Can anyone explain.

I can explain that:

It means the forks were mounted back to front.

 

[Hip Priest]

This idea of bsos having the front forks are on back to front was refered to in the first page of this thread and i didnt understand it then. Can anyone explain.

http://bicycleshaped...jpg?w=300&h=199

Some actual ASDA promo material featuring a bike with the forks on backwards. Doh! Sorry, I'm not sure how to post it as an image. Which is probably the internet equivalent of not knowing which way round the forks go.

 

[apollo179]

Gotcha - so the bike is conceptually sound its just that the forks have been put on the wrong way round. I thought maybe it involved a fundeamental design fault as opposed to just an assembly issue. Anyway thanks for clarifying.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

and the v bakes would be facing towards the cyclist not away from him/her.

Gotcha - so the bike is conceptually sound its just that the forks have been put on the wrong way round. I thought maybe it involved a fundeamental design fault as opposed to just an assembly issue. Anyway thanks for clarifying.

 

[Bicycle]

Remarkably for a forum like this, I think we've achieved complete unanimity.

We have 107% of contributors to this thread in complete agreement, as follows:

1. BSO is a term dripping with snobbery, smug self-satisfaction at knowing more than other people about bicycles and a generally clique-centred mindset that is exclusive of anyone who takes these things slightly less seriously.

2. That the above prejudice will be justified with stories along the lines of: 'My mate knew someone who rode a BSO and the chain ring sheared and killed a 3-day-old kitten'.

I congratulate us all for taking such a mature view on this tricky issue and coming to a clear consensus when it would have been easier to descend into a slanging match of opinionated drivel and unsubstantiated claims of ghastly hazards presented by 'so-called BSOs'.

A difficult argument avoided there. Well done all of us!

Hurrah!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

That is not my interpretation of the threads majority possition.

Remarkably for a forum like this, I think we've achieved complete unanimity.

We have 107% of contributors to this thread in complete agreement, as follows:

1. BSO is a term dripping with snobbery, smug self-satisfaction at knowing more than other people about bicycles and a generally clique-centred mindset that is exclusive of anyone who takes these things slightly less seriously.

2. That the above prejudice will be justified with stories along the lines of: 'My mate knew someone who rode a BSO and the chain ring sheared and killed a 3-day-old kitten'.

I congratulate us all for taking such a mature view on this tricky issue and coming to a clear consensus when it would have been easier to descend into a slanging match of opinionated drivel and unsubstantiated claims of ghastly hazards presented by 'so-called BSOs'.

A difficult argument avoided there. Well done all of us!

Hurrah!

 

[smithy92]

Angelfishsolo, correct, the brakes were rider side of the forks, as well as not being connected (one half of v-brake unclipped).

I seriously hope no future cyclist buys one and uses the display model as a guide for putting them together.

 

[apollo179]

I suggest that this says more about the quality of the staff than it does about the bicycle. They would probably do the same with the latest super bicycle. So a picture of a bike with forks on back to front may indicate a lot of things ( untrained and uncaring staff , cheaper product) it does not definitively prove bso status.

 

[Jezston]

Remarkably for a forum like this, I think we've achieved complete unanimity.

We have 107% of contributors to this thread in complete agreement, as follows:

1. BSO is a term dripping with snobbery, smug self-satisfaction at knowing more than other people about bicycles and a generally clique-centred mindset that is exclusive of anyone who takes these things slightly less seriously.

2. That the above prejudice will be justified with stories along the lines of: 'My mate knew someone who rode a BSO and the chain ring sheared and killed a 3-day-old kitten'.

I congratulate us all for taking such a mature view on this tricky issue and coming to a clear consensus when it would have been easier to descend into a slanging match of opinionated drivel and unsubstantiated claims of ghastly hazards presented by 'so-called BSOs'.

A difficult argument avoided there. Well done all of us!

Hurrah!

 

[Alembicbassman]

http://bicycleshaped...jpg?w=300&h=199

Some actual ASDA promo material featuring a bike with the forks on backwards. Doh! Sorry, I'm not sure how to post it as an image. Which is probably the internet equivalent of not knowing which way round the forks go.

Asda are still doing it, took this a couple of weeks ago in a store

 

[Angelfishsolo]

That is just diabolical. The bike and the fact it has been put together incorrectly.

Asda are still doing it, took this a couple of weeks ago in a store

 

[Bicycle]

I think we need to keep this in perspective. Last week my LBS tried to sell me an onion with the skin on inside-out. It was nothing more than an OSO!

The man was clearly not a fresh-produce expert and seemed cynically to have overlooked the potential hazard of eating an inside-out vegetable.

A bicycle retailer has no place in the complex marketplace for food and domestic products. The attempt by my LBS to sell fresh foods was nothing short of diabolical!

The next question might be why on Earth anyone with half a brain would expect a bicycle retailer to know the first thing about food retail.

Similarly, why would anyone with half a brain (or more) expect a supermarket employee to know how to assemble a bicycle?

Despite my deeply held fundamentalist Christian beliefs, I find myself warming to the half-baked warblings of Mr Darwin in his heretical work on Natural Selection. Some people opt for extinction by their own enormous stupidity and complete lack of curiosity.

This BSO debate has given rise in me to a potentially devestating internal spiritual conflict.

Cripes!

Asda are still doing it, took this a couple of weeks ago in a store