It is true that some are clueless

"David Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTA...238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I wonder if they had problems riding it..

Did you let them know?

elyob wrote:
> "David Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTA...238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
> >
> > I wonder if they had problems riding it..
>
> Did you let them know?

I had only just spotted it.. I might drop them a line..

...d

David Martin wrote:
> In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTA...238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I wonder if they had problems riding it..

Yeah, the bmx brake rotor seems to be missing, otherwise, looks good...

David Martin wrote:
> In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTA...238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
>
> I wonder if they had problems riding it..
>

To advertise it like that they are clueless enough not to have been
responsible for setting it up like that in the first place. Which means
there is an even less excusable retailer out there that is responsible
for it.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

"sothach" <[email protected]>typed



> David Martin wrote:
> > In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTA...238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
> >
> > I wonder if they had problems riding it..

> Yeah, the bmx brake rotor seems to be missing, otherwise, looks good...

The front reflector looks *really* usefully placed...

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Edgware.

in message <[email protected]>, David
Martin ('[email protected]') wrote:

> In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTA...238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I wonder if they had problems riding it..

On one of the weekends I was minding the LBS last year, someone came in
with one like that. What can one say? On the one in the picture, it's
clear that the front reflector is fouling the downtube, which you'd
think would be some kind of clue.

--
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;; John Hume, Northern Irish politician, on Radio Scotland 1/2/95
;; Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1998; few have deserved it so much

David Martin wrote:
> In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTAIN-BIKE-EXCELLENT-CONDITION-15-gears_W0
QQitemZ7238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I wonder if they had problems riding it..

Seller's reply to me:

"The forks are not actually on back to front - the bike
had been on a bike rack and I had not corrected it prior to the photo"

~PB

Tony Raven wrote:
> David Martin wrote:
>
>> In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTA...238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>>
>>
>>
>> I wonder if they had problems riding it..
>>
>
> To advertise it like that they are clueless enough not to have been
> responsible for setting it up like that in the first place. Which means
> there is an even less excusable retailer out there that is responsible
> for it.
>
Eh?

I assume that it's been used, stored and set-up again for the photo.



druidh

David Martin wrote:
> In my hunt for a new bike for #2 offspring I came across this:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHILDs-MOUNTA...238433786QQcategoryZ57256QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I wonder if they had problems riding it..

The RRP's about £120, from what I can see. I could be a decent ride.

Oh, if you tilt the saddle down a bit, that is. My loins ache just looking
at it. In a bad way. Not that there would be a good way.
--
Ambrose

"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email protected]>typed


> I could be a decent ride.

> Oh, if you tilt the saddle down a bit, that is. My loins ache just looking
> at it. In a bad way. Not that there would be a good way.

TMI ;-)

--
Helen D. Vecht: [email protected]
Edgware.