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Old 06-11-22 | 06:18 AM
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Bikes: Current favorites: 1988 Peugeot Birraritz, 1984 Gitane Super Corsa, 1980s DeRosa, 1981 Bianchi Campione Del Mondo, 1992 Paramount OS, 1988 Colnago Technos, 1985 RalieghUSA SBDU Team Pro

Cheap Kid's Bike

VERY cheap kid's bike probably from the late 70's to early 80's. These kind of bikes were sold by department stores and other non bike shop outlets. I'd inspect it VERY carefully before letting a young person ride it.

One of the reason's that I'm so critical about these kinds of bikes is they're electrowelded by pressing the thin tubes together and applying current to get them to fuse at the joints - sort of like spot welding. There's no fillet build up around the joints to give any kind of reinforcement. They're VERY prone to failure at the head tube from riding off of curbs and so on...



It was bikes like these that the USCPSC - U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission was originally supposed to protect children from getting injured on while riding them....

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