SkyeC

I gave mine to a friend at work that's sending them to his brothers in Africa.

It's a fine bike for people that are just going to tool around on it once in awhile or take it to the corner store. You think IKEA is going to buy 12,400 Serottas?

monsterpile

Thats kind of you.

Andy_K 

I don't have a problem with the presumably low-end component selection. Even the one-piece crank is OK.

What I can't understand is the frame. Why would anyone make a frame like that? Is there any way that such a design could be cheaper to produce than a simple double-triangle?

MMACH 5

Groovy. That's a great idea.

Standalone 

I really like their furniture, and I think they are -- as corporations go -- pretty non-evil.

But that is the ugliest bike I've ever seen. What kills me is the little post that comes up for the FD to clamp to. Wow.

I'll still ride my cargo bike to the Ikea down the way in New Haven to do some xmas shopping.


[typed from my POANG armchair.]

kayakplayer

Cudos to you, Commuter76 IKEA has long promoted it's efforts to use sustainable growth wood products in place of the traditional lumber materials. They started long before most American companies acknowledged global warming. I live about a 3 1/2 hour drive from an IKEA store in Chicago where we purchased a complete set of European style kitchen cabinets and low voltage lighting when I remodeled our Kitchen. Everything was very economical and looked great when installed. Customer service was superb.

The thing that I purchased that I love most is our IKEA bed base. My wife and I enjoy it with strips of latex foam glued to the slats, a 5" compressed wool queen mattress with a 3" wool mattress topper from Shepherd's Dream. I modified our original bed with two sets of bed trusses to support the twin IKEA bed bases, and it is rock solid and very firm! We spent a lot of money on the entire set-up, but I think we are set for life, and it may well be an heirloom item. My wife often tilts up the bed base to read, and I no longer have the back problems I used to experience sleeping on our old pillow top mattress. My daughter has that issue now. Even fancy well made inner spring mattresses wear out. The cool thing about the bed base is how simple it is, and how the firmness of each side may be adjusted individually. If I have a fitful night of sleep, my wife isn't kept awake. That is very important since she is a certfied professional midwife gone to births at all hours. When she comes home, I'm often unaware of her getting into the bed, so it works both ways. Having access to products with great designs is something I appreciate from IKEA. Thanks for working to bring that to Americans who appreciate it

z90

Bike snob has been on this for three days. Check out the picture he found.

Grim

One already on Craigs for $150 new in box LOL
https://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/bik/2107369714.html

LesterOfPuppets

My theory is that someone had a huge overrun on front triangles for a full suspension BSO model. Then someone got those for next to nothing and finished up the frame as cheaply as possible, by welding on a hardtail rear triangle.

monsterpile

Classic

Andy_K 

Isn't it obvious that this bike is equipped with a two-position selectable-trail fork?

Chris_in_Miami

One popped up here for the same price, but this ad doesn't make the "extremely rare" claim. It does however mention that it was "manufactured by Ikea."

If Ikea actually manufactured a bike, I'd expect it to look pretty cool.

atariwhizkid

I don't understand... are the employees assembling these themselves? I have seen about five on the local craigslist already and each says that the bike is "New in Box."

AdamDZ

Yeah, not to mention that this thing won't last a year under regular commute.

z90

See the pic in post 57 for the answer to that

AdamDZ

That sounds about right to me. Reminds me: we get gifts every year for Employee Appreciation Day. Every years it's an incredible POS, so bad you wouldn't even find something like that on Canal Street for a quarter. I don't know where they find this crap, but it's garbage quality. One year we got tiny calculators with dead batteries, they must have been laying around somewhere for at least 3 years for those coin batteries to run out. People stopped picking up their gifts eventually, they become subject of jokes. Every year each department trashes several boxes of those gifts. They also treat us to free lunch however, so that kind of makes up for it.

So yeah, this bike is a horrible POS. For people new to bicycles it will give them all the wrong ideas about bikes. I think sometimes it's better not to give anything than give a POS.

z90

I agree

wunderkind

Sincerely, IKEA

Commuter76

Well, the auction went well. I told the auction sponsor that the bidding shouldn't start any higher than $40. Someone eventually paid $100 for it. I would feel bad about that if the money weren't going to charity. I can't take credit for the idea to auction it off. One of my coworkers at my day job had the idea and I really liked the idea, so that's what I ended up doing.

Kayakplayer,
Thanks for the encouraging words.

Curitibano

The IKEA gift went to the news even here in Brazil. I don't know about that bike, but when you buy a bike in the supermarket in Brazil, sooner or later you will hate cycling ...

LesterOfPuppets

In another Ikea bike thread someone mentioned it was a Kent frame. From that tidbit I tracked down the frame. Seems they actually offer it up as a hardtail through retail channels. Amazing. It's a good thing Ikea swapped the awful squishy fork for the rigid one. Shame they skimped on the cranks, though.

Behold the Shogun Shockwave:

fuji86

That's what I thought about the bike, a pseudo full suspension frame design. Looks more exotic and expensive than it really is. The Kent at least is attractively finished in the red, the IKEA gray and the lame stripes are ugly. They might as well have welded cheap table legs and added bike components and wheels:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20056915