2018 Bikes in Department Stores; Walmart...

[Saving Tempest]

I think the Chinese are trying but they can't control anything much better than Trump can. How can you lord over the every move and detail of well over 1 billion people when you can't even keep bike shares from working (and they don't work).

 

[Saving Tempest]

I thought it was kind of interesting the kinds of bicycles that are being marketed in our "department stores" these days. I took this picture in my local Walmart...View attachment 803798

I haven't been in my town's Walmart for nearly 20 years...'nice' to see that our local hardware stores still look palatial compared to one of these dumps.

 

[the tinker]

Went to Target with the wife. While she was doing her thing I went and looked at the bikes. Big mistake.... They had a couple with the Schwinn logo on the head tube. What a hunk of junk. I wondered if the people buying these bikes actually think they are getting a Schwinn? I also thought to myself," I wonder how many people say to themselves while looking at the Target cruisers, "Gee , an old 50's bike, I'd like to get one of them." Later last week an antique shop right down the street from me called Antique & Chic had a big outdoor sale The wife knows I like antique places and suggested I to go into the new place with her. I told her ," NO. That would be the day, I went into any place named 'Antique & Chic." I'd rather spend an afternoon in Target, eating Target pizza and watching her buy burkas.

Anyway, there were crowds of people at this new antique place.It's in an old building from the 1800's. They got all kinds of old crap outside... that I would throw out. What do you think they used as part of their sign on the front sidewalk? You guessed it, a new Walmart or Target cruiser bike! An antique store can't even have an honest to goodness old bike out in front of their place. I suppose the idiots think it's old....
Antique & Chic of Winfield Illinois.......Ugh, Don't go there!

 

[bairdco]

i'm an assembler for Walmarts and I build those bikes every day. A lot of stores have me set up inside the garden centers and I've made it a policy to not give customers my opinion on the bikes.

And yes, people think Schwinn is still a reputable name and that the quality is better than the other brands walmart offers. Same goes for Huffy, which is funny, because Huffy hasn't made a quality bike since, well, since they changed the name to Huffy.

 

[Saving Tempest]

Went to Target with the wife. While she was doing her thing I went and looked at the bikes. Big mistake.... They had a couple with the Schwinn logo on the head tube. What a hunk of junk. I wondered if the people buying these bikes actually think they are getting a Schwinn? I also thought to myself," I wonder how many people say to themselves while looking at the Target cruisers, "Gee , an old 50's bike, I'd like to get one of them." Later last week an antique shop right down the street from me called Antique & Chic had a big outdoor sale The wife knows I like antique places and suggested I to go into the new place with her. I told her ," NO. That would be the day, I went into any place named 'Antique & Chic." I'd rather spend an afternoon in Target, eating Target pizza and watching her buy burkas.View attachment 805897
Anyway, there were crowds of people at this new antique place.It's in an old building from the 1800's. They got all kinds of old crap outside... that I would throw out. What do you think they used as part of their sign on the front sidewalk? You guessed it, a new Walmart or Target cruiser bike! An antique store can't even have an honest to goodness old bike out in front of their place. I suppose the idiots think it's old....
Antique & Chic of Winfield Illinois.......Ugh, Don't go there!

You don't want to waste a GOOD bike for a sign...