Well, as long as the prices are happy.

Now that's funny... :roflmao:

:lol:

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/836/exuberant/

I know this thread is out of date, but I wanna include my 2 cents.
I've owned several of walmart bikes, as a child and adult. Every bike I've ever gotten from walmart has fell apart. from handlebars on BMX style bikes fliiping me down and sending me over the handlebars, to brakes failing, the front forks on a beach cruiser bending, making it unridable. I had a Dual suspension mountain bike that no matter what i did couldn't hold a tube. Actually when i was a kid I had a wheel straight up FALL OFF mid jump.

A few months ago I got my first "Real' bike after going to walmart, looking at 2 bikes, inflating the tires in the store to 45 PSI and they both blew a tire before I got out of the store. I went to the thrift store and picked up a blue Cignal, and it's done me GREAT so far. :) Never gonna get another wal mart bike as long as I live.

Not only do U.S. consumers tolerate mediocrity, they often prefer it. The average WalMart customer is of the same demographic as those who wait in the drive through in their steel boxes for unhealthy garbage from McDonalds.

Well you gave all the right reasons for buying a Wal-Mart bike. You said it is only a starter bike and you fully expect to upgrade later. There is no such thing as a wrong bike. There is only the wrong bike for the given requirements.

I got my Wal-Mart bike from the neighbor's trash. It was unrideable. I spent $25 on parts and fixed it myself, and now it is my "beater bike", and it rides great.

I scrolled past this a number of times before I actually got it. LOL

Good luck winning the Tour De France with that POS.

You missed the point, pharasz said it was his beater bike. No intention of riding the Tour in it.

What's wrong with a walmart bike? You bought it from walmart to start.

I hereby dub thee the thread that just will not die. :) How is this not a sticky by now!?!!?!! :D

Why make it a sticky when people keep bumping it?

Oh, wait... :(

bought a mongoose xr-100 mountain bike from walmart 6 years ago to pull my son around in a pull behind carrier and now ride with him through the city. the first batteries on the computer died out at 4700 miles and this set is already over 3500 so I guess my point is this every now and then walmart CAN have a decent bike in the store (remember that walmart does not make bikes) if you buy gatorade from walmart its still gatorade

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You win the thread.

What? Is that common sense at Bikeforms? Was it going somewhere else and got lost and came here by mistake?

Muzpuf is new. In time, we'll see his/her posts degenerate into the name-calling and snobbish put-downs the rest of us fling at posters, rides, products, and just about everything else.

Shut up

I beg to differ. My boss, who never rides but does own a Walmart bike, has signed up to do the Ride to Conquer Cancer. Two consecutive metric centuries. On a $60 Walmart MTB.

I would argue that this is indeed the wrong bike in just about every way imaginable.

I wonder if anyone has ever participated in an Ironman or other olympic tri on a Wal-Mart bike. That would be awesome.

If you include the next sentence in your quote it all makes sense.
It all depends on the given requirements. I'd say you're both right.

That would be pretty sweet. Every bike must be a new sub-$100 bike exactly as it came off the shelf at the big-box mart of your choice. Make it a 200k and see who makes it. :)

huffy was selling an "ironman pro" which was actually a mountain bike-ish thing. I can only assume that these were prevalent at said event.:rolleyes:

They were selling a carbon bike with decent Shimano components on it for $800 on their internet site sometime in the last year. I've never seen anything about those bikes, but it's always possible something good will come through the doors of Walmart.

They also had the Corsa - Aluminum bike with quite a few 105 bits on it for $500 last year.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...1#post10387147