BEHOLD! The wal-mart fixie....
04-07-10 | 07:38 PM
#176
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haha this will be the new fad. the hipsters have **** beer, **** music, **** clothes, and now **** bikes. all in the name of irony. i don't care how sturdy it seems, i am not taking the hills of halifax on a walmart bike.
04-07-10 | 10:59 PM
#178
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From: Brooklyn, NY
its just like skateboarding, you spend 130 bucks on a board and you're at the park and see some guy on a cheap0 one, i don't get mad..i just think he may be less fortunate than me. Everyone has their own level of "expensive" so maybe that's all he could get, so i understand and respect that.
04-07-10 | 11:17 PM
#179
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From: Brooklyn, NY
Bikes: SRAM Force Gruppo on an unmarked CF frame
Was really interested in this until I saw that the frame was way too tall for me. Damn. I've been using my $2,800 road bike I built up three years ago more and more to commute and it's taking a beating. Been looking at the Kilo TT for two years now and I might finally give in and grab the chrome. Still, $150 for this bad boy made it really intriguing though.
04-08-10 | 12:22 AM
#182
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From: Davis/Lafayette, CA
Bikes: too many
god i hate the curbside. this mongoose is probably lower quality but i'd rather be seen on this than a curbside.
04-08-10 | 06:20 AM
#183
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
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From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
Once I saw that WalMart sells vacuum cleaners, I feel much less cool when I clean my house. I mean...what about my neighbors? Do my neighbors think I bought my vacuum at ****ing WalMart? Even though I didn't, using my superbly high-end vacuum has now lost all sense of 'cred'.
*sigh*
*sigh*
04-08-10 | 09:15 AM
#184
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From: Brooklyn, NY
Once I saw that WalMart sells vacuum cleaners, I feel much less cool when I clean my house. I mean...what about my neighbors? Do my neighbors think I bought my vacuum at ****ing WalMart? Even though I didn't, using my superbly high-end vacuum has now lost all sense of 'cred'.
*sigh*
*sigh*
05-13-10 | 10:06 PM
#189
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Joined: Aug 2009
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From: Fountain Valley, CA
Bikes: Dawes SST-AL
I broke down and bought one - got it debadged and put together so heres a few pictures for you. Got it to ride in the neighborhood with the kiddos
Made a few changes - different saddle, new pedals, new brake levers (orginals got bent in shipping), and new white oury grips.
Made a few changes - different saddle, new pedals, new brake levers (orginals got bent in shipping), and new white oury grips.
05-13-10 | 10:17 PM
#190
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Bikes: KHS gran sport single speed
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Genesis-70...cycle/14089740
this is the fixie they're selling at my wal*mart in augusta, ga. saw it in person the other day. sort of heavy, not put together well(of course). but worth 150 bucks i guess... (needs new wheels and bb, obviously... no radial front wheel like the mongoose either)
quote from review "I didn't count them, but I am guessing the gear is around a 48/20"
really?
this is the fixie they're selling at my wal*mart in augusta, ga. saw it in person the other day. sort of heavy, not put together well(of course). but worth 150 bucks i guess... (needs new wheels and bb, obviously... no radial front wheel like the mongoose either)
quote from review "I didn't count them, but I am guessing the gear is around a 48/20"
really?
Last edited by ghoul vs robot; 05-13-10 at 10:24 PM.
05-14-10 | 12:01 AM
#193
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Pretty soon... all the cool kids will be rocking chain guards.
Would love to get one of these for scientific testing and would have to hand it over to the local polo crew to demo... one of those guys is building up some 48 spoke wheels specifically for polo and the custom hubs will cost many times what this Mongoose does.
05-16-10 | 04:57 PM
#195
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From: Mid-Missouri
Review from Walmart.com:
Wow!, 03/26/2010
I've never hit so many pedestrians and cars in my life! I removed the front and rear brakes so I could be as cool as the older kids and it made a phenomenal difference. I could no longer control or stop the bike but the girls were like woah, who's that guy they're prying off the grill of that bus, he's like totally hot. oh my god.
I've never hit so many pedestrians and cars in my life! I removed the front and rear brakes so I could be as cool as the older kids and it made a phenomenal difference. I could no longer control or stop the bike but the girls were like woah, who's that guy they're prying off the grill of that bus, he's like totally hot. oh my god.
05-16-10 | 06:29 PM
#196
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From: Tampa, FL
Bikes: Norco CCX1, GF HiFi Plus, Dawes SST AL
If they weren't so damn tiny I'd say it's a perfect polo bike. Tension the wheels (I bet half those spokes are slack), swap the pedals, chop an inch off each side of the bars, and swap the chainring for something smaller and I bet it would be a great polo bike. If you kill it, no big deal.
05-16-10 | 08:08 PM
#197
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From: fort worth, TX
Bikes: kilo TT, dawes touring lightning, unknown BCM lugged conversion
Its a 55cm, not really tiny. I stripped mine down today..metal shavings in the bb! Cleaned it and put crank, wheels, and chain on a conversion project I was working on. Turned out pretty nice. I just put the frame in storage as it was to big
05-17-10 | 07:18 AM
#199
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https://www.walmart.com/ip/Genesis-70...cycle/14089740
this is the fixie they're selling at my wal*mart in augusta, ga. saw it in person the other day. sort of heavy, not put together well(of course). but worth 150 bucks i guess... (needs new wheels and bb, obviously... no radial front wheel like the mongoose either)
quote from review "I didn't count them, but I am guessing the gear is around a 48/20"
really?
this is the fixie they're selling at my wal*mart in augusta, ga. saw it in person the other day. sort of heavy, not put together well(of course). but worth 150 bucks i guess... (needs new wheels and bb, obviously... no radial front wheel like the mongoose either)
quote from review "I didn't count them, but I am guessing the gear is around a 48/20"
really?
05-17-10 | 07:27 AM
#200
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 190
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From: fort worth, TX
Bikes: kilo TT, dawes touring lightning, unknown BCM lugged conversion
i should have weighed mine before i took it apart, it wasnt to bad i'd say 20lbs or so..it's definately entry level, but IMO waaay better than an SE draft