It is true that some are clueless

In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem

I wonder if they had problems riding it..

...d

"David Martin" wrote in message
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In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem

I wonder if they had problems riding it..

Did you let them know?

elyob wrote:
"David Martin" wrote in message
ups.com...
In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem

I wonder if they had problems riding it..

Did you let them know?

I had only just spotted it.. I might drop them a line..

...d

David Martin wrote:
In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem

I wonder if they had problems riding it..

Yeah, the bmx brake rotor seems to be missing, otherwise, looks good...

David Martin wrote:
In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem


I wonder if they had problems riding it..


To advertise it like that they are clueless enough not to have been
responsible for setting it up like that in the first place. Which means
there is an even less excusable retailer out there that is responsible
for it.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

"sothach" typed



David Martin wrote:
In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem

I wonder if they had problems riding it..

Yeah, the bmx brake rotor seems to be missing, otherwise, looks good...

The front reflector looks *really* usefully placed...

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Tony Raven wrote:
David Martin wrote:
In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem



I wonder if they had problems riding it..


To advertise it like that they are clueless enough not to have been
responsible for setting it up like that in the first place. Which means
there is an even less excusable retailer out there that is responsible
for it.

It looks like a catalogue bike which would come requiring some assembly
from the new owner. The same will be true for the next owner. The only
way I'd touch it with a bargepole would be when its at the bottom of a
canal. A very murky canal.

JimP

--
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to
grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after
all. - DNA

"Jim Price" wrote in message
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Tony Raven wrote:
David Martin wrote:
In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem


I wonder if they had problems riding it..


To advertise it like that they are clueless enough not to have been
responsible for setting it up like that in the first place. Which means
there is an even less excusable retailer out there that is responsible
for it.

It looks like a catalogue bike which would come requiring some assembly
from the new owner. The same will be true for the next owner. The only way
I'd touch it with a bargepole would be when its at the bottom of a canal.
A very murky canal.

JimP

--
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to
grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after
all. - DNA

I confess that I have done something similar.

Some years ago I bought a mail order bike that arrived with the handlebars
rotated through 90 degrees and, as I later discovered, the front fork
rotated through 180 degrees. In my eagerness to take my shiny new toy for a
quick spin I rotated the handlebars until they were pointing in the correct
direction, tightened them up then leapt aboard. I was disappointed to
discover that my feet kept on hitting the front wheel. It took me an
embarrassingly long time (several seconds) to work out what was causing
this.

John 'clueless' Wilton

in message . com, David
Martin ') wrote:

In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...c mdZViewItem

I wonder if they had problems riding it..

On one of the weekends I was minding the LBS last year, someone came in
with one like that. What can one say? On the one in the picture, it's
clear that the front reflector is fouling the downtube, which you'd
think would be some kind of clue.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

'Victories are not solutions.'
;; John Hume, Northern Irish politician, on Radio Scotland 1/2/95
;; Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1998; few have deserved it so much

David Martin wrote:
In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAI...ON-15-gears_W0
QQitemZ7238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewI tem

I wonder if they had problems riding it..

Seller's reply to me:

"The forks are not actually on back to front - the bike
had been on a bike rack and I had not corrected it prior to the photo"

~PB