BEHOLD! The wal-mart fixie....
03-27-10 | 07:10 PM
#76
Fred
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From: Boston, PRM
Bikes: 1983 Schwinn Super Sp0rt, Trek hybrid, eBike, Xootr
I 'm psyched. I hope fat old guys and ugly girls buy them and hang out all over Boston!
03-27-10 | 08:46 PM
#77
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Just ordered mine, I'll let you all know how it goes. I figure worst case scenario I give it my POOR AS F*CK neighbor who would love to have a bike, or I'll make an awesome video of the poor Mongoose dying.
And for reference, it's online-only, it's a single speed, and shipping weight doesn't have a thing to do with real weight.
EDIT: Also, shipping and handling only cost me five bucks..
And for reference, it's online-only, it's a single speed, and shipping weight doesn't have a thing to do with real weight.
EDIT: Also, shipping and handling only cost me five bucks..
i remember as a kid riding a crappy bike and i was so happy just to be cruising down the street. definitely interested in your review, please post pics and im sure other people on here are dying to know the actual weight as well.
i'll stay tuned for your review, excited to see what this thing is made of.
03-27-10 | 08:56 PM
#78
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Personally I'm kinda like this about this bike:
It's too bad people are lamenting this because they think it somehow makes them or their bike less cool.
I'm wondering if it has a flipflop hub.
I can see the average walmart joe having a fun time with chain tensioning. Not that it's difficult but I doubt most of them will be going online to find the finesse of it.
Hell my seatpack+contents was more than $150
Anyone who gets one please post a detailed review w/ close pics
It's too bad people are lamenting this because they think it somehow makes them or their bike less cool.
I'm wondering if it has a flipflop hub.
I can see the average walmart joe having a fun time with chain tensioning. Not that it's difficult but I doubt most of them will be going online to find the finesse of it.
Hell my seatpack+contents was more than $150
Anyone who gets one please post a detailed review w/ close pics
03-27-10 | 09:24 PM
#79
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From: Columbus, Oh!
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I agree... some dept store bikes are nothing short of being utter POS.
In the case of this Mongoose Cachet, I can't wait for the chance to inspect one. IMHO although it appears to not share any components with the Mongoose Maurice, I suspect it'll still be a perfectly servicable and reliable year round city bike for me. All for a price below what I was going to pay for an aluminum frame alone.
Taken from the UK Mongoose site:
https://www.mongoose.com/gbr/eng/mtn/...-Maurice-CroMo
https://www.mongoose.com/gbr/eng/mtn/...Maurice-(CroMo)
https://www.mongoose.com/gbr/eng/mtn/...Maurice-Hi-Ten
In the case of this Mongoose Cachet, I can't wait for the chance to inspect one. IMHO although it appears to not share any components with the Mongoose Maurice, I suspect it'll still be a perfectly servicable and reliable year round city bike for me. All for a price below what I was going to pay for an aluminum frame alone.
Taken from the UK Mongoose site:
https://www.mongoose.com/gbr/eng/mtn/...-Maurice-CroMo
https://www.mongoose.com/gbr/eng/mtn/...Maurice-(CroMo)
https://www.mongoose.com/gbr/eng/mtn/...Maurice-Hi-Ten
03-27-10 | 10:10 PM
#80
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I'd be more worried about cog/lockring. Look at how many people hop on BD bikes without even tightening the cog/lockring and end up toasting hubs.
03-27-10 | 10:23 PM
#82
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Well it's a freewheel I assume, so that won't be a problem but I agree that is a problem in general especially amongst the BD guys
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03-28-10 | 01:41 AM
#83
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yes, before people start ripping on this bike without actually having much hard evidence, i'd like to see what you say about it. it could be a good deal for $150 and someone looking to get into biking.
i remember as a kid riding a crappy bike and i was so happy just to be cruising down the street. definitely interested in your review, please post pics and im sure other people on here are dying to know the actual weight as well.
i'll stay tuned for your review, excited to see what this thing is made of.
i remember as a kid riding a crappy bike and i was so happy just to be cruising down the street. definitely interested in your review, please post pics and im sure other people on here are dying to know the actual weight as well.
i'll stay tuned for your review, excited to see what this thing is made of.
03-28-10 | 08:23 AM
#84
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From: Mass
Bikes: Pake,Shogun,Nishiki,Motobecane
Even if the bike turns out to be super crappy,it'll be a better deal and probably better ride for a beginner than some steel rim,electroforged schwinn tank conversion from CL.
03-28-10 | 09:04 AM
#85
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03-28-10 | 09:04 AM
#86
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03-28-10 | 09:14 AM
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Wow! Four pages on this.
I don't understand what the big deal is. If you think that you'd like to own one - buy it. If you don't - don't buy one. What do you care about what somebody else buys or doesn't buy?
I don't understand what the big deal is. If you think that you'd like to own one - buy it. If you don't - don't buy one. What do you care about what somebody else buys or doesn't buy?
03-28-10 | 05:03 PM
#90
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Stopped by Stuffmart today to see f they had any in but it looks like they have not received their spring stock yet... did see a Raleigh Record with an Al frame with rather decent welds, Quando hubs, and a Shimano drive train selling for 299.00 and it even had a "Made in Canada" sticker.
Brakes were no name and the rims were pretty cheap and seems like a better specked bike than the Denali... shifters were still on the bars but were clamp on levers and not the grip shift with the split bar.
Brakes were no name and the rims were pretty cheap and seems like a better specked bike than the Denali... shifters were still on the bars but were clamp on levers and not the grip shift with the split bar.
03-30-10 | 03:59 PM
#93
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03-30-10 | 04:25 PM
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At least one reviewer likes it
Good deal on a fine single speed bike, for $149 & $2.97 S&H to your home. If your an experience biker you will love this simply bike design, weights in at 22 lbs. and has 700 rims with good tires that can take 100 lbs of pressure, good brakes and pedals with the aluminum frame, she should last a long time. For the price she can't be beat, everyone else is selling a single speed bike for twice the price with an old metal type frame and when you try to convert an old road bike to single speed all you do is waste your time and money, I know because I tried last summer! Thanks Walmart for making one of these bikes available at a good price, would buy again in a minute. Not hard to put together out of the box with a little biking experience, after all it's a single speed like your first bike, right?
03-30-10 | 05:16 PM
#96
@ilikebikes:
Standard consumers who know nothing about bikes don't replace things. They go, oh hay, I has a bike. Ride ride ride break death. Someone on the product review site in the original post stated that to change the chainring, you have to drill through rivets. Rivets. Come on. What did they do? Weld the wheels into the dropouts, too? It seems to me, Wal**** knows that the standard consumers aren't going to replace things on the bike, due to the fact that they just don't know how or what to replace. And plus, Wal**** doesn't sell chainrings, do they? "MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SWITCH OUT CHAINRINGS ON OUR BIKES" says Wal**** CEO.
Standard consumers who know nothing about bikes don't replace things. They go, oh hay, I has a bike. Ride ride ride break death. Someone on the product review site in the original post stated that to change the chainring, you have to drill through rivets. Rivets. Come on. What did they do? Weld the wheels into the dropouts, too? It seems to me, Wal**** knows that the standard consumers aren't going to replace things on the bike, due to the fact that they just don't know how or what to replace. And plus, Wal**** doesn't sell chainrings, do they? "MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SWITCH OUT CHAINRINGS ON OUR BIKES" says Wal**** CEO.
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03-30-10 | 06:15 PM
#97
Pizza
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I wonder what the gearing is, especially considering the fact that the chainring could be riveted on, as stated earlier.
If it indeed is fixed rather than SS, I wonder if it is the standard cog/lockring setup, or some cheapo rigging.
If it indeed is fixed rather than SS, I wonder if it is the standard cog/lockring setup, or some cheapo rigging.
03-30-10 | 08:29 PM
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First of all, at Walmart, you pay $150, and $150 is the retail! muahahaha!
At BD, you pay $297, but the retail is much higher than what you pay. The value of an Hour/Kilo TT far surpasses the value of a $150 dollar bike hence the higher cost.....I think.
HUGE differnece.
03-30-10 | 11:09 PM
#100
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There is one big difference between BD and WALMART. i mean this is WALMART we are talking about omg.
First of all, at Walmart, you pay $150, and $150 is the retail! muahahaha!
At BD, you pay $297, but the retail is much higher than what you pay. The value of an Hour/Kilo TT far surpasses the value of a $150 dollar bike hence the higher cost.....I think.
HUGE differnece.
First of all, at Walmart, you pay $150, and $150 is the retail! muahahaha!
At BD, you pay $297, but the retail is much higher than what you pay. The value of an Hour/Kilo TT far surpasses the value of a $150 dollar bike hence the higher cost.....I think.
HUGE differnece.
That is the HUGE difference.