Do consumer grade Walmart bikes need disc brakes?
05-10-21, 12:14 PM
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Why do we need to over think everything?
1) Why do you ride?
2) Do you like what your doing?
Then....just go ride a bike! If you don't enjoy it, then do something else!
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1) Why do you ride?
2) Do you like what your doing?
Then....just go ride a bike! If you don't enjoy it, then do something else!
nufsaid!
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Haven’t been in a HelMart in the last 50 years? They have always sold bicycle shaped objects for both kids and adults.
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05-10-21, 03:37 PM
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Because that’s what Bike Forums is. It’s a place to gather and talk about bikes when the weather is bad.
I ride for all the reasons that people list for riding. And, yes, I do enjoy it. I’d like others to enjoy it on equipment that is actually going to serve them. HelMart bikes...especially HelMart bikes made in the last 5 years or so...is equipment that really isn’t meant to be used. You might as well just hang the BSO on a wall for all the use you’ll get out of it. In fact, that’s what happens to the vast majority of bicycles sold by HelMart.
Further, from what I’ve seen at my local co-op, HelMart bikes have gone from mostly useless to actually dangerous. See the picture in post 42 above. That’s not the only example of that kind of fracture I’ve found in HelMart bikes. It’s also the only place I’ve ever found that kind of fracture.
I agree. I just want people to be able to enjoy the same sport I enjoy without having to worry about their equipment literally falling apart on them.
Nope. Not nearly ‘nuf.
1) Why do you ride?
2) Do you like what your doing?
2) Do you like what your doing?
Further, from what I’ve seen at my local co-op, HelMart bikes have gone from mostly useless to actually dangerous. See the picture in post 42 above. That’s not the only example of that kind of fracture I’ve found in HelMart bikes. It’s also the only place I’ve ever found that kind of fracture.
Then....just go ride a bike! If you don't enjoy it, then do something else
nufsaid!
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Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
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Maybe there needs to be seperate forum for Walmart Bikes.
I shop at Walmart all the time. Just not for bikes.
I shop at Walmart all the time. Just not for bikes.
05-11-21, 08:26 AM
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Ooh! Ooh! Or can be call it “Going Nowhere”?
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Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
