Tonight I bought a Dynacraft Triax Crimson purchased for $37.48 at Target. Sure it's garbage, but for the price it can make a fun beater fixie if I don't invest too much money in it. For less than forty bucks, I got an aluminum frame with looooooong horizontal drops and a seven speed freewheel...not a cassette. A little Locktite, cog and BB lockring, and I'm in business.


Mine's like this, but with even more fugly decals.

37.48 ??

Yeah...Target prices their sh*t weird like that.

not a bad idea. some people pay that much for 1 tire...

btw, was that on sale? that can't be normal price right?

$37.48 is crazy good! Tell us more about the bike. I'd even just ride that as a super cheap, geared beater.

hot damn, even for an x-mart bike that is a damn good deal.

You can even remove the shifters without retaping the bars. This ought be be sub-$100 easy.

I've seen that bike at Target, but I remember it being sold for around 100 dollars. How did you get it marked down to under 40?!

******.

I should of looked into this when building my fixie

The Tagets near me still have a few. I'll bet by next week they're around $20.

Oh...the BB is complete sh*t. Cross-threaded cups, bound-up bearings and almost a smudge of grease in there. I ended up installing a sealed Truvativ unit from my parts bin.

Anybody need brake levers? The ones that came on it aren't actually terrible, I'm just not using them. I'll trade them out for a couple bucks...seriously...just enough to pay for postage and maybe a cup of coffee.

The bike is absolute crap...but what would you expect? Steel cranks, steel bars, steel stem...trash, but like all garbage, it is disposable.

If you stay wound a bit longer you'll find that steel bars and stem are quite popular here.

I wonder how much it weighs

i'm going to guess 35-40. it's a pig, i held one. however, when i held one it was between 100 and 150 bucks and easy to walk away from. if i see one for 40 i'll have to pry myself from the store.

I don't care how bad that bike is, the price is nuts. That thing and all its parts were likely transported over oceans and still it costs about as much as a mediocre tire.

Haha: https://www.bikeforums.net/singlespeed-fixed-gear/346654-haha-37-target-bike-loctite-d-ebay.html

They aren't all bad if they're anything like the Denali. Cigtech commuted for months on one and posted the results over in commuting.

If anyone nows where I can find one of these bikes in the Louisville, KY area, please let me know. Thanks

yeah, but look at the size of that rear derailler! you could shave two pounds on a fixie convert just by getting rid of that thing.

How'd you get it so cheap?

https://slickdeals.net/forums/showthr...highlight=bike

That link discussing the deal at Target may be of interest.

damn, for $40, i may have to buy one just for a beater! $40 is worse than free, but i still woulnd't be upset if it got stolen. **** it, i'm going to target tomorrow.

With a Shimano BMX freewheel this thing would actually be pretty decent to give to a friend. $50 total and about a half hours worth of work.

Does anyone happen to know the bar code number or any kind of number that could be used to track down one of these bikes. I have called all the targets in my area and none of them have this bike and it is still listed online for 149.95. Any help would be greatly appreicated.

Exactly. I wouldn't give it as a suicide fix to anyone I like. But a cheap freewheel would be perect.

I opted to go fixed on mine because I have great life insurance and no one but me will be riding it.

Can someone explain how to get it for $37?