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Waiting in the barbers to get my hair cut this morning when I spy a
Sterling House special offer. Two bikes for £79.99. One of the special
features highlighted in bold text was steel rims!!!

Ye gads why do they do it?

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Tony Raven writes:

Waiting in the barbers to get my hair cut this morning when I spy a
Sterling House special offer. Two bikes for £79.99. One of the
special features highlighted in bold text was steel rims!!!

Ye gads why do they do it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%2...n_every_minute

Chris
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In article , Tony Raven
says...
Waiting in the barbers to get my hair cut this morning when I spy a
Sterling House special offer. Two bikes for £79.99. One of the special
features highlighted in bold text was steel rims!!!

Ye gads why do they do it?


Because people can't resist a bargin (sic).

"Tony Raven" wrote in message
...
Waiting in the barbers to get my hair cut this morning when I spy a
Sterling House special offer. Two bikes for £79.99. One of the special
features highlighted in bold text was steel rims!!!

Ye gads why do they do it?

Do what?

Sell them cheaply, or fit steel rims?

Alan

Tony Raven wrote:
Waiting in the barbers to get my hair cut this morning when I spy a
Sterling House special offer. Two bikes for £79.99. One of the special
features highlighted in bold text was steel rims!!!

Ye gads why do they do it?

Because people buy them. Actually, I'm surprised BS6102 didn't exclude
steel rims on safety grounds. They are marginally better with leather
brake blocks, but still not safe.

On 27 Jan, 21:30, Zog The Undeniable wrote:
Tony Raven wrote:
Waiting in the barbers to get my hair cut this morning when I spy a
Sterling House special offer. Two bikes for £79.99. One of the special
features highlighted in bold text was steel rims!!!

Ye gads why do they do it?Because people buy them. Actually, I'm surprised BS6102 didn't exclude
steel rims on safety grounds. They are marginally better with leather
brake blocks, but still not safe.
Oh dear, I've been unsafe for the last 30 years then! (My Carlton
Corsa is currently running its second steel rim. With the right pads
the brakes work OK in the wet.)

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:30:10 +0000, Zog The Undeniable wrote:

Actually, I'm surprised BS6102 didn't exclude steel rims on safety
grounds.

Because, thank goodness, BS6102 specifies actual performance, not the
means of achieving it. It's the latter that has led to LEDs being
illegal for so long as bike lights.


Mike

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:20:02 +0000, Tony Raven wrote:

Waiting in the barbers to get my hair cut this morning when I spy a
Sterling House special offer. Two bikes for £79.99. One of the special
features highlighted in bold text was steel rims!!!

Be thankful that the copy-writers are too ignorant to know that steel is
an alloy (of iron). Just imagine if they said "alloy wheels" and provided
steel. It's metalurgically perfectly accurate.


Mike

Mike Causer wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:20:02 +0000, Tony Raven wrote:

Waiting in the barbers to get my hair cut this morning when I spy a
Sterling House special offer. Two bikes for £79.99. One of the special
features highlighted in bold text was steel rims!!!

Be thankful that the copy-writers are too ignorant to know that steel is
an alloy (of iron). Just imagine if they said "alloy wheels" and provided
steel. It's metalurgically perfectly accurate.

I don't think it matters much, like copywriters most customers for these
bikes will be hard put to discern steel from aluminium! I've seen an add
for a bike with an aluminium chain!
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On 28/01/2007 10:22, squeaker said,

With the right pads
the brakes work OK in the wet.

Oh dear - only "OK in the wet". Make sure you're not behind someone
with ally rims who's brakes will be much better than "OK in the wet".

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Paul Boyd
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