How to give Bikes for Chrstmas - Need Help

[GTCOMA]

My neighbor sent me this message asking for ideas on how to give their kids their new bikes for Christmas. They have 6 kids, so all the bike's won't fit under the tree. They are looking for a fun way to give them the bikes on chrstmas morning. Any ideas?

Here is the message she sent me.

"Santa is bringing our kids each a bike....Wondering if anyone has a bright idea/way for us do that. Cause they won't all 6 fit in our living room. We have done the search for your present with clues for them on their birthdays...so not sure if Santa should do that too. Make sense? So any input or good idea help would be AWESOME!!!!!"

Thanks!

 

[necessaryevil]

Do you still have that bike hanger in your garage? You could let them borrow that, I bet they could find a big enough box or enough cardboard to make a box. Rap it up in x-mas paper and the kids would never guess there were 6 bikes in that box.

 

[benz]

Hows about hiding a bike in each different room of the house, or maybe in their bedroom's so when each child wakes up, there is a shiny new bike as soon as they open their eyes!

hohohoho

 

[tikiharl]

Perhaps if it is a single story house, they could be placed on the roof,like over the garage where they could be seen easily.(safely of course). Santa couldnt get them all down the chimney and left them up there. :wink:

 

[sensor]

lots of little boxes containing bike parts so they can help assemble them :wink:
just make sure theyre labeled for the right bikes though(if theres more than one)!

 

[Anonymous]

hang them from the front yard tree like x-mas ornaments hanging from the tree

 

[roadmaster]

i like the leaving them in their rooms, all built up and ready to ride. if weather was nice or they had a vacant car port, lining them all up side by side and getting all the kids out there to "discover" them.

 

[sensor]

i like the make them work for it idea.........i gave my son a pixie that i spent a month working on(trying to metal finish the fenders w/o breaking the paint was the worst part) and the first thing he did was stuff the fender under a steel pole :x :x :x
if they help work on it its bonding time plus a greater sense of 'its mine...i built it' pride(just my useless $.01)

 

[Uncle Stretch]

The bad thing is If you left 6 new bikes visable in the front of your house ,driveway,or carport some dummie will steal them . If they will steal your Christmas tree they will steal anything. good luck though.

 

[GTCOMA]

Well, I helped them pick them up from Storage on Christmas eve and they just ended up lining them up in the kitchen and brought one kid down at a time.

two days later, i ended up spending about an hour fixing adjusting and completing assembly of the Wal-mart/Target bikes they got. they didn't realize they were just slapped together to get them on the sales floor. chaingaurds were rubbing, tires were flat, seats were loose. I think that is why these bikes don't last very long. They aren't assembled correctly and they break as a result.

 

[cody-james]

as a former and recovering wal-mart assembler i can confirm this. there was a time when i was the head assembler for 3 different stores, unforchanetly the idiots working for me at no experience or training besides watching a 30 min instructional video. i swear I'm the only guy dumb enough to go from working in a bike shop to assembling for walmart. i remember last year before chicopee's grand opening they called me at 2 in the afternoon to tell me their assembler had done things wrong i worked from 3pm till 7am rebuilding something like 60 bikes all of which had loose bars flat tires ect. My girlfriend is now a manager at a walmart every time i go visit her i head over to the bike rack to check them out every time 1/2 or more have loose bars, some times upside down bars on the MTBs. blah I'm done with my rant walmart bikes are rubbish i regularly warn people i see buying them to please go over everything before letting a child ride it the last thing i want to see is a child fall and get hurt because some one is lazy and decided not to tighten a stem bolt or adjust brakes.......
i actually know one of my former stores is getting sued because a little girl fell off a bike and got hurt because training wheels weren't attached properly.... now i'm done i'm going riding