BSO

[Cubist]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7NHCy13ZLk

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Big supermarkets such as tesco and asda have largely become the default market for joe public to buy a wide range of there stuff from groceries to bicycles. They may stack em high and sell em cheap but personally I woudnt expect tescos or asda to sell shoddy bikes. Other shops maybe but i would expect better of asda and tesco.

Expectation is the key I feel. If I buy a product I expect it to be fit for purpose. If the bike comes with an information sheet telling me it is only for short rides and will last only a few hundred miles then it is fit for purpose. If it is sold as something it is not then it is not fit for purpose and is a BSO.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=I7NHCy13ZLk

Love that film. I fell in love with Andy MacDowell when I saw it.

 

[Cubist]

Love that film. I fell in love with Andy MacDowell when I saw it.

There is something about her, I must admit.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

There is something about her, I must admit.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Alembicbassman]

She turned out OK, her father Roddy is an ape.

 

[Alembicbassman]

Another two in Asda today

Forks reversed on the ladies bike and handlebars squiffy on the gents one

 

[apollo179]

Failings in assembly do not nessecarily mean bso. Are these bikes assembled on site (asda) or at factory.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Failings in assembly do not nessecarily mean bso. Are these bikes assembled on site (asda) or at factory.

Well in the current state it certainly isn't a bike.

 

[Cubist]

You'd be buying British though.....

 

[Angelfishsolo]

You'd be buying British though.....

That used to be a good thing

 

[davefb]

Another two in Asda today

Forks reversed on the ladies bike and handlebars squiffy on the gents one

and did you mention it ?

 

[Bicycle]

I recall a time maybe 20 years ago when so-called 'Upside Down Forks' started to creep into motorcycle sport (lower unsprung weight among other advantages). Looked weird at the time, but quickly caught on at the top level.

Could these back-to-front forks on BSOs be something in a similar vein?

Will we all soon be riding top-spec bikes with back-to-front forks?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Big supermarkets such as tesco and asda have largely become the default market for joe public to buy a wide range of there stuff from groceries to bicycles. They may stack em high and sell em cheap but personally I woudnt expect tescos or asda to sell shoddy bikes. Other shops maybe but i would expect better of asda and tesco.

Comes back to crap BSI 9or whoever) standards then surely?

I would not expect Tesco to sell shoddy TV's, microwaves, mp3 players, mobile phones, produce, pasta, meat, etc., etc., so why are they getting away with selling shoddy bikes.

What they sell needs be fit for purpose. That's the law and the consumers/customer right. They can sell a cheese framed, cucumber braked BSO with tictacs for bearings and wheels made from bacofoil and hide behind the standards on the basis that it complies.

The bikes you can buy in many European supermarkets are fine and great vfm. French, German and Austrian supermarkets have had me dribbling over thier bikes and I even bought a Portuguese supermarket 'mountain' bike from Pingu when on holiday there and it survived all the mountains I (slowly) threw at it and clocked up a fair few 100km on road without anything other than normal adjustments.

 

[apollo179]

Comes back to crap BSI 9or whoever) standards then surely?

I would not expect Tesco to sell shoddy TV's, microwaves, mp3 players, mobile phones, produce, pasta, meat, etc., etc., so why are they getting away with selling shoddy bikes.

What they sell needs be fit for purpose. That's the law and the consumers/customer right. They can sell a cheese framed, cucumber braked BSO with tictacs for bearings and wheels made from bacofoil and hide behind the standards on the basis that it complies.

The bikes you can buy in many European supermarkets are fine and great vfm. French, German and Austrian supermarkets have had me dribbling over thier bikes and I even bought a Portuguese supermarket 'mountain' bike from Pingu when on holiday there and it survived all the mountains I (slowly) threw at it and clocked up a fair few 100km on road without anything other than normal adjustments.

It has not been established that tescos are selling shoddy bikes. Bike with forks on round the wrong way is a shoddily assembled bike , not nessecarily a shoddy bike.