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Wal-Mart, bicycle builder named in $900,000 lawsuit
Kingsport Times-News ^
| January 16, 2006
| JEFF BOBO
Posted on 01/16/2006 3:27:57 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom
As a bicyclist, I won't shed a tear if Pacific cycles goes belly up. The stuff they sell is crap. They even bought Schwinn, a formerlly great American bike and started badging ever more crap with the Schwinn name. It's not criminal, but it should be.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:04:23 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: son of caesar
Pacific is the manufacturer. The factory itself might happen to be in China, but it's owned by Pacific.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:05:10 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: Havoc
When you buy a bike from Walmart, like it or not, you get what you paid for. Exactly. The pedals and shoes for any of my bicyles costs more than a Wal-Mart special, and the difference is that I can count on my bikes to not fail me in an intersection.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:06:38 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: prisoner6
Brakes on a bike? wimps. In the days when I rode, my bikes rarely had brakes...if the did I rarely used them and that's in the hills of Pittsburgh. The hot back then was to wear gloves with pads on the palms, reach over the handle bar and slow the bike by rubbing the pad on the tire. You have got to be kidding. I can't imagine that providing much stopping power. My full-suspension mountain bike has hydrolic disc-brakes with 6" rotors. Even GOOD v-brakes that cost more than any Wal-Mart bicycle by themselves aren't sufficient for some applications.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:08:50 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: Reform4Bush
Wal-Mart is not a good place to buy a bike. They are junk, and they generally don't have an experienced bike builder assembling them. When it is time for you or your child to get a bike, go to a professional bicycle shop. There is a huge difference in the quality of the bikes, parts and the service you receive That was worth repeating in bold. Truer words were never spoken.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:10:04 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: Pikachu_Dad
End result: WalMart stops selling bikes. It would be doing the country a favor if Wal-Mart quit selling the crap they sell as bicycles.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:10:46 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: Nathan Zachary
Most parents don't have a clue as to how to inspect a bicycle. Most cyclists aren't particularly good at it either. That's how bicycle shops get away with charging $100 for tune ups.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:14:46 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: deport
I plan on riding the Hotter 'N Hell 100 this year. While I'm first and foremost a mountain biker, I've made it a goal to ride a century this year.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:16:52 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: goldstategop
You know, I've often wondered why bike shops don't attack the "one size fits all" department/toy store philosophy. Most people don't even know that real bicycles come in different sizes.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:19:32 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: Melinda in TN
If you love your grandaughter at all, you won't let her actually mountain bike on a cheapie bike. They're suitable (barely) for slow neighborhood crawls, but off-road they're accidents waiting to happen, and mountain bike accidents can be painful and crippling.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:21:42 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: john drake
You're correct. Schwinn is now just a badge to slap on complete junk.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:23:45 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: goldstategop
Exactly. I have a 49cm Lemond Reno, a 13" Gary Fisher Hoo Koo E Koo and a 13" Gary Fisher Cake. Each bike fits me like an absolute glove.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:25:23 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: Havoc
A parent didn't take the time to ensure that the bicycle was in proper operational condition so it's someone else's fault the kid got hurt... That was my thought, too. I don't know the particulars, but if I'm buying a bicycle for my kid, I'm going to check it thoroughly before I let my kid ride it. Especially if it was assembled by someone at a discount store.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:28:24 PM PST
by
Rocky
(Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
To: AmericaUnited
Oh please! I was walking by the bikes in Walmart the other day and noticed some decent looking mountain bikes for $75 There was nothing decent about those bikes for $75. $300 minimum for the most rudimentary, entry level, hard tail mountain bike. That's the absolute minimum for any off-road use. Anything less and your risk of bodily injury goes through the roof. My tires alone cost more than those bikes.
I don't want to pay $400 for the same bicycle from some little bike shop
And you won't. Even the cheapest bikes in the bike shop have vastly superior components and frames than the department/toy store bikes.
What really torques me off are the mountain (looking) bikes sold in department/toy stores with tiny print stickers that read, "Not for off-road use". You have no idea how many idiots we see every month that have hurt themselves seriously on these bicycles attempting to navigate off-road trails.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:32:11 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: luvbach1
It's nothing to do with Wal-Mart bashing. You simply cannot get a good bicycle for $75 unless you're buying a used bike for a song. You get what you pay for. When the ground is four or five feet beneath me, I'm going 25 miles an hour, and I'm coming quick, the last thing I want to be worried about is if my bike is going to let me down.
If you're going to crawl around the block at 6mph, then maybe a department store bike will be ok, but that's about the absolutely limit of usage.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:35:57 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: Reform4Bush
If I could figure out how to true rims with straight pull spokes, I'd save myself enough cash every year to take a cruise. That or I need to ditch the XC wheels and just buy a set of Rhyno-Lites and be done with it.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:40:21 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: rebel_yell2
If they're that sensitive, I'm willing to bet that you have mechanical disc brakes. I just upgraded to Hayes Hyrdolics and man, the difference is amazing. You can really modulate the hydrolics without any fear of over braking...unless you really want to over brake, then the power is definately there.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:41:53 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: LadyDoc
That's the beauty of quality. The better the bike, more likely it will survive a crash. Get a kid something like a Specialized P3 or a Fisher Mullet and you have a bike that will survive the wrecks your kids don't.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:49:45 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: RouxStir
Well said. The best part about my new bike is the sticker that says "HAND BUILT IN THE USA".
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:53:12 PM PST
by
Melas
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To: Lancey Howard
The coaster brake is the worst invention ever. V-Brakes and disc brakes (both hand brakes as you call them) are superior in every way imaginable.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:57:20 PM PST
by
Melas
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