Backwards Forks, Grrr!!!

[laguna454]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

Support your local small stores. The guys at the bike shop near me are great and they know me for 35 years. They will drop what they are doing and tune a derailleur for me or help me with a purchase of the smallest item to a new bike.

The unknowing consumer who buys a bike from the box store and rides it or gives it to a kid to ride is only looking at a potential for danger. These people buy them, ride them and determine that they are not having a good experience and thus relegate themselves to not riding a bicycle.

I looked in a box store last week at some bikes and none of them were solid enough to ride out the door. Loose stems, pedals and brake cables. Derailleurs must be out of adjustment as well.
The bikes are garbage to begin with and the box stores selling them don't care about what they sell and how they are assembled.

This country is finished and most people don't care that all this money is going to other countries and increasing their wealth while draining our economy.

John

 

[chagovatoloco]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

Support your local small stores. The guys at the bike shop near me are great and they know me for 35 years. They will drop what they are doing and tune a derailleur for me or help me with a purchase of the smallest item to a new bike.

The unknowing consumer who buys a bike from the box store and rides it or gives it to a kid to ride is only looking at a potential for danger. These people buy them, ride them and determine that they are not having a good experience and thus relegate themselves to not riding a bicycle.

I looked in a box store last week at some bikes and none of them were solid enough to ride out the door. Loose stems, pedals and brake cables. Derailleurs must be out of adjustment as well.
The bikes are garbage to begin with and the box stores selling them don't care about what they sell and how they are assembled.

This country is finished and most people don't care that all this money is going to other countries and increasing their wealth while draining our economy.

John

Amen brother!

 

[KJV]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

when you get a bicycle @ our local WalMart
they are all assembled with the finest workmanship.
the man in charge of that dept.is very good @ his job.
guess it depends on the employee.our w.m. is the 3rd largest in the world. so, if ya don't like the way its done @ your local. apply for the job.

 

[jwm]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

when you get a bicycle @ our local WalMart
they are all assembled with the finest workmanship.
the man in charge of that dept.is very good @ his job.
guess it depends on the employee.our w.m. is the 3rd largest in the world. so, if ya don't like the way its done @ your local. apply for the job.

Hey, great point, KJV. Sounds like a good way to find yourself a decent part time gig and earn a few extra bucks. Hit the local box stores, find poorly assembled bikes, call the manager, and offer your know how.

JWM

 

[laguna454]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

Hit the local box stores, find poorly assembled bikes, call the manager, and offer your know how.

Are you kidding? These managers, district managers, regional managers and on up the line only care about profits and selling at volume.
They will probably offer you $7 an hour and no benefits for your part time expertise.

I live in NY City and WalMart is banned from even opening a store here because of their treatment of workers and the threat to the small businesses. I never shop at the big so called hardware stores either and I'm an electrician. I go to the local supply houses and hardware stores where they know my name and appreciate my business and carry quality products with the knowledge to go with it.

Call me old school at 42yrs old.

John

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

Hit the local box stores, find poorly assembled bikes, call the manager, and offer your know how.

They will probably offer you $7 an hour and no benefits for your part time expertise.

Call me old school at 42yrs old

At this point in the economy we're in I'd probably take it too. :roll: mainly just because I know I'd be saving some kid from getting hurt and possibly getting turned off of bicycles. Every kid should have and ride a bike. Even the 42 year old kids :lol:

 

[schwinnmesa]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

This is a great discussion... You all have very respectful ethics!

 

[KJV]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

jwm,it would be a good social environment
as well.a great idea for the retired person.

 

[Highridah]

Re: Backward Forks, Grrr!!!

i got em mounted backwards on the burrito it sits 1/4" from the ground the other way around

 

[jwm]

I live in NY City and WalMart is banned from even opening a store here because of their treatment of workers and the threat to the small businesses.

Funny how New York doesn't seem to have such an issue with building a mosque at ground zero.
Tell me. How many New Yorkers did Walmart murder on 9/11/01?

JWM

 

[outskirtscustoms]

I live in NY City and WalMart is banned from even opening a store here because of their treatment of workers and the threat to the small businesses.

Funny how New York doesn't seem to have such an issue with building a mosque at ground zero.
Tell me. How many New Yorkers did Walmart murder on 9/11/01?

JWM

Well I don't know how you guys feel but I think that is a slap in the face to the American people. I for one am against it and I don't care if I'm "Politically correct" or not.

 

[jwm]

I didn't really want to post that, because it's one step away from bringing out the double barreled atomic powered flamethrower that I keep below the keyboard. Nonetheless, I get very passionate about some things, and that's one of them. I'm new here; I really like this place, and I don't want to spoil the vibe by getting into politics and religion. I come here to get away from it. Mods, feel free to delete the post with my apologies.

JWM

 

[outskirtscustoms]

I didn't really want to post that, because it's one step away from bringing out the double barreled atomic powered flamethrower that I keep below the keyboard. Nonetheless, I get very passionate about some things, and that's one of them. I'm new here; I really like this place, and I don't want to spoil the vibe by getting into politics and religion. I come here to get away from it. Mods, feel free to delete the post with my apologies.

JWM

I hear you there, I don't mean to get anything railed up and I hope it doesn't. I just feel strongly about it and to me it's just the fact that, yes we should respect their rights, but they should respect our feelings on it too and to me that would be like a big victory flag for the terrorists. Let them find a location that doesn't have the emotional baggage with it. I won't get into my feelings of how we should have turned Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran into another Hiroshima. I fear for where this country is headed and I sleep better at night knowing I have guns within reach.

 

[Petrohead]

C'mon guys. I think you are missing the point. Get with the times. It's kinda like those new-fangled pants that don't fit right and your underwear are sticking out and you have to walk funny just to keep them on. It's the new fad. It doesn't make sense but you are definitely cool if you do it. sheeeeze guys.

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

C'mon guys. I think you are missing the point. Get with the times. It's kinda like those new-fangled pants that don't fit right and your underwear are sticking out and you have to walk funny just to keep them on. It's the new fad. It doesn't make sense but you are definitely cool if you do it. sheeeeze guys.

 

[chagovatoloco]

WOW...... Did I get that right? Did you just bring 9-11 into this?..............really?

 

[GreatWhite00]

Back to backwards forks...

I have never seen this before and hope I don't.

Those forks wouldn't look right to a blind man.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Back to backwards forks...

I have never seen this before and hope I don't.

Those forks wouldn't look right to a blind man.

Good idea, back to forks.

 

[KJV]

is it really backward forks...
could it be backward handlebars.

 

[NLCTVWguy]

is it really backward forks...
could it be backward handlebars.

I definitely think it's 50/50. The sad part of it is whoever assembled the bike not knowing the difference.

When you see it on a more complicated bike, one with levers and cables, you know that they simply didn't flip the fork around before the bars were dropped in.

If the bike is actually assembled in a stand, usually the wheel will flip 180° if it's not held at a down angle. The average person would assemble the bike with the top tube level, and this doesn't work- unless you're a bike-shop guy with a fork bracket that keeps things straight during assembly (a cool little piece like a bent coat hanger- only heavy duty.)

I do blame most of these on the management of the store- they're the ones letting clueless amateurs assemble the product that goes out the door. In today's world, with a hungry lawyer on every corner, I cannot believe stores take those chances.

However, we're talking about Wal*Mart and Target type stores- they don't care as long as they make their $3 per bicycle. (How much more could it be when they're only $50 to $100 out the door?)

The only bike I've ever bought from these places is my BFK Schwinn- and I did buy it on Black Friday- and I bought it in the box. Buyer beware, and parents beware if you're letting any of your kids ride on these things.

As noted above it's bad enough we receive cheaply made products with questionable paint, chrome plating, and components- but we compound the problem HERE, in the USA, by not even assembling them correctly.

Ok I guess that's more like my 4 cents for the day...
--Rob