Jokes & Humor - What if walmart came up with this ad:

You know those 'Save Money, Live Better' Commericials? What if they rolled this one out:

'Lets say you spend $1000 at a local bike shop looking these kinds of items. If you bought these kinds of Bikes and accessories at Walmart, with great brands like Huffy, Schwinn, and Next, you could save on average about $800 a bike! What would you do with all that money? Save Money, Live Better, Walmart'

Let the raging begin.

LOL makes me wonder why they haven't tried something like that.

if they made it, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they based it off a $5000 carbon fiber bike vs a $50 NEXT.

Kind of like a walmart saying 'Why spend 5 Million on that Ferrari when you can buy this Used Yugo for $150'

Good, but you need to toss in something about "Full assembly, only ten dollars extra!".

Some years back, Bicycling Mag contributing editor Joe Lindsey wrote a most excellent piece, detailing his experience when he "went undercover", and tried to buy a bicycle at the big retailers. He "got into character", and visited such places as Walmart and Sears. It was quite hilarious.

I was at a walmart, looking for a cheapo cyclometer (My mom wanted me to come along anyway), and in the bike department, there was this guy and his girlfriend. What he said almost made me burst out laughing.

"Man foo, I remember back den when i waz a kid dem bikez were four hundred dollahz! Now dem bikez be so cheap foo. Look at dem niceazz Mongoose, onley fiddy dollahz!"

I was at a walmart, looking for a cheapo cyclometer (My mom wanted me to come along anyway), and in the bike department, there was this guy and his girlfriend. What he said almost made me burst out laughing.

"Man foo, I remember back den when i waz a kid dem bikez were four hundred dollahz! Now dem bikez be so cheap foo. Look at dem niceazz Mongoose, onley fiddy dollahz!"
LOL How could you contain yourself?


Good, but you need to toss in something about "Full assembly, only ten dollars extra!".

Some years back, Bicycling Mag contributing editor Joe Lindsey wrote a most excellent piece, detailing his experience when he "went undercover", and tried to buy a bicycle at the big retailers. He "got into character", and visited such places as Walmart and Sears. It was quite hilarious.
If you the article please post it I think all of us could use another good laugh. =)

Lol.

Was it this:

http://bicycling.com/blogs/boulderreport/2007/06/page/2/

Was it this:

http://bicycling.com/blogs/boulderreport/2007/06/page/2/

that might not be what trackhub was thinking about, but that did give me a good laugh.


As an aside, most children’s bicycles use bolts, not quick-release skewers, and a number of high-quality ones also have secondary retention devices. If there’s a problem, it’s likely more due to Wal-Mart bikes with ****** assembly jobs, not an inherent problem in the bike design. Having “tested” a big-box store bike a few years back, I can personally attest to the shoddy, borderline dangerous assembly you can find on a department-store bike.

Hey it's like he's talking about my $30 sports authority special. 5 months of commuting 15 miles a day and my rear rim is bent. XD

OK, back to the OP:

You'd have to use the $800 savings at the emergency room when the brakes failed on the W-M bike.

To the rest of you:

My bud and I knock ourselves out trying to make that garbage rideable, cuz it pays the bills. We refer to those things as BSO's -- bike-shaped objects. A day doesn't go by without one or both of us shaking our heads at the deplorable quality of the BSO. Coaster-brake hubs that don't coast, and knock when pedaling; V-brake pads that wear down to nothing in less than a mile; BMX stem plates that snap off before torquing; BMX freewheels that catastrophically fail in less than a week, giving no pawl contact whatsoever -- and cannot be replaced by removing the old and replacing with a new freewheel, you need a whole new rear wheel. Forks bent during shipping, so badly the dropouts touch; I could go on and on.

A woman goes into Walmart to buy a rod and reel. She doesn't know which one to get so she just grabs one and goes over to the register. There is a Walmart "associate" standing there with dark shades on.

She says, "Excuse me sir .....can you tell me anything about this rod and reel?"

He says , "Ma'am I'm blind but if you drop it on the counter I can tell you everything you need to know about it from the sound that it makes."

She didn't believe him, but dropped it on the counter anyway.

He said "That's a 6' graphite rod with Zebco 202 reel and 10 lb. test line......It's a good all around rod and reel and it's $20.00."

She says, "That's amazing that you can tell all that just by the sound of it dropping on the counter. I think it's what I'm looking for so I'll take it"

He walks behind the counter to the register. And in the meantime the woman farts. At first she is embarrassed but then realizes that there is no way he could tell it was her ... being blind he wouldn't know that she was the only person around.

He rings up the sale and says, "That will be $25.50."

She says, "But didn't you say it was $20.00?"

He says, "Yes ma'am, the rod and reel is $20.00, the duck call is $3.00, and the catfish stink bait is $2.50!"

I think the article I am thinking of may have ran in the Buyer's guide edition, circa 2001-2002. I'll check it out at my local library, next trip. Bicycling's website doesn't seem to have it, at least not anywhere near the surface.