Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Walmart sells all size car tires too but doesn't sell cars.
I've never seen a bike on the sales floor at Walmart or any other bigbox store that was equipped with Presta valve tubes. Bigbox store bikes may be anathema to the bicycling enthusiasts of BF, but that is the source of most bikes sold in the U.S.
Most non - boutique lbs ' s carry bikes that come stock with Schrader valves too. Walmart sells presta valve bikes online and you can click to order, pick up assembled at store so even though you haven't seen them they are available. My GF works at Walmart and they won't let them keep mongoose fatbikes on the floor there but a walmart down in Portland has them on the floor. So there's a chance some walmart might have presta valved bikes, if that's what you're really after. Maybe that's why they have presta tubes, so new denali and Thruster Fixie owners can go presta, pimp out their bikes as it were.
I guess I'm not sure what your point is. Too many BF peeps wouldn't consider a sub $1500 bike so are out of touch with reality. Is that your point?
Maybe 95 percent of road is that way but fewer than 25 percent of bike mechanics is that way. It would be really tough to suggest walmart bikes to anyone. Some of the non suspension rigs are OK. I like the La Jolla but I have La Jolla wheels on a bike and the coaster hub is almost toast after 400 miles or so...