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Old December 10th 19, 05:40 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On 12/10/2019 2:00 AM, Ned Mantei wrote:

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The REI bike looks quite reasonable, but there's no REI in Switzerland.

Ned


My neighbor's hesitancy with the L.L. Bean Ridge Runner was the tires. I
told him that those can easily be changed but he figured that a bicycle
shop would charge $150 including labor. I told him that I'd swap the
tires for him for free and that it's cost about $50 for two high-quality
24" x 1.75" touring tires plus smaller tubes.

Personally, if I were him, I'd buy a used kid's road bike on CraigsList
or Nextdoor.
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Old December 11th 19, 12:23 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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sms wrote:

Personally, if I were him, I'd buy a used kid's road bike [...]


I think you're not remembering what being a kid is like, and also not observing the way kids are.

Road bikes (as in drop bar bikes) don't suit the vast majority of adults, let alone children.
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Old December 11th 19, 02:23 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On 12/10/2019 3:23 PM, Chalo wrote:
sms wrote:

Personally, if I were him, I'd buy a used kid's road bike [...]


I think you're not remembering what being a kid is like, and also not observing the way kids are.

Road bikes (as in drop bar bikes) don't suit the vast majority of adults, let alone children.


No, I didn't mean to imply drop bars. I meant to imply no suspension
fork, road tires, and proper handlebars, sometimes called cafe bars or
granny bars.

The 24" wheeled Mixte that my neighbor's daughter has is more like what
I was thinking about
https://jetimages.jetcdn.net/md5/05244bdc473519ec3f17373b464f86a8. I
don't know what possessed Schwinn to offer such an expensive to produce
bicycle for Walmart.
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Old December 11th 19, 07:13 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:59:16 -0800 (PST), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

I wonder what his successor rides?
- Frank Krygowski


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Old December 11th 19, 10:29 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On 12/11/2019 1:13 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:59:16 -0800 (PST), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

I wonder what his successor rides?
- Frank Krygowski


Cycling Politicians
https://dcbikeblogger.wordpress.com/miscellaneous/cycling-politicians/


Wow, I'd forgotten about the Tour de Trump.

Do you suppose he's ever been on a bicycle?


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- Frank Krygowski
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Old December 11th 19, 10:56 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:23:52 PM UTC-8, sms wrote:
On 12/10/2019 3:23 PM, Chalo wrote:
sms wrote:

Personally, if I were him, I'd buy a used kid's road bike [...]


I think you're not remembering what being a kid is like, and also not observing the way kids are.

Road bikes (as in drop bar bikes) don't suit the vast majority of adults, let alone children.


No, I didn't mean to imply drop bars. I meant to imply no suspension
fork, road tires, and proper handlebars, sometimes called cafe bars or
granny bars.

The 24" wheeled Mixte that my neighbor's daughter has is more like what
I was thinking about
https://jetimages.jetcdn.net/md5/05244bdc473519ec3f17373b464f86a8. I
don't know what possessed Schwinn to offer such an expensive to produce
bicycle for Walmart.


I started all three daughters on normal road bikes. Two of them ended up racing and one got second or third (can't remember which) at the Jr. Nationals. They also put their rear wheels in the water in Portland and their front wheels in the water in the Atlantic after crossing the entire continent - three daughters and their mother.

Never sell people short and think that they can't grasp the use of the most complex bicycle.
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Old December 12th 19, 12:00 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 16:30:06 UTC-5, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 12/11/2019 1:13 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:59:16 -0800 (PST), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

I wonder what his successor rides?
- Frank Krygowski


Cycling Politicians
https://dcbikeblogger.wordpress.com/miscellaneous/cycling-politicians/


Wow, I'd forgotten about the Tour de Trump.

Do you suppose he's ever been on a bicycle?


--
- Frank Krygowski


Doesn't matter if he rode a bicycle or not. the Tour de Trump was a nice bicycle race.

1989 Part One:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcuB2BoRVQo
1989 Part two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c__WIFWsFvQ

There's also the 1990 one on You Tube.

Cheers
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Old December 12th 19, 12:15 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 1:56:22 PM UTC-8, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:23:52 PM UTC-8, sms wrote:
On 12/10/2019 3:23 PM, Chalo wrote:
sms wrote:

Personally, if I were him, I'd buy a used kid's road bike [...]

I think you're not remembering what being a kid is like, and also not observing the way kids are.

Road bikes (as in drop bar bikes) don't suit the vast majority of adults, let alone children.


No, I didn't mean to imply drop bars. I meant to imply no suspension
fork, road tires, and proper handlebars, sometimes called cafe bars or
granny bars.

The 24" wheeled Mixte that my neighbor's daughter has is more like what
I was thinking about
https://jetimages.jetcdn.net/md5/05244bdc473519ec3f17373b464f86a8. I
don't know what possessed Schwinn to offer such an expensive to produce
bicycle for Walmart.


I started all three daughters on normal road bikes. Two of them ended up racing and one got second or third (can't remember which) at the Jr. Nationals. They also put their rear wheels in the water in Portland and their front wheels in the water in the Atlantic after crossing the entire continent - three daughters and their mother.

Never sell people short and think that they can't grasp the use of the most complex bicycle.


Bad news, Tom. Portland is not on the coast. The girls were about 80 miles short of crossing the entire continent. They'll have to start over.

I bought a lot of bikes for my son when he was a kid, and he hardly rode any of them. He didn't start riding seriously until he went off to college, and they he went nuts. https://attheu.utah.edu/home-page/be...alt-lake-city/ He's the lug in the middle, back when he was a young, skinny roadie. Years later, he's a gym rat first and cyclist second, and at 6'6" he's starting to look more like Ivan Drago than Ivan Basso. Anyway, kids have to want to ride. Foisting nice bikes upon them is a waste of money.

-- Jay Beattie.
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Old December 12th 19, 01:14 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On 12/11/2019 6:15 PM, jbeattie wrote:

I bought a lot of bikes for my son when he was a kid, and he hardly rode any of them. He didn't start riding seriously until he went off to college, and they he went nuts. https://attheu.utah.edu/home-page/be...alt-lake-city/ He's the lug in the middle, back when he was a young, skinny roadie. Years later, he's a gym rat first and cyclist second, and at 6'6" he's starting to look more like Ivan Drago than Ivan Basso. Anyway, kids have to want to ride. Foisting nice bikes upon them is a waste of money.


Well, that's the tricky part. Of course you'll get your kid a bike. But
should you get a nice bike and hope that he'll ride enough to justify
it? He may not, and you'll feel you've wasted your money. Bitterness and
misery will result.

Or will you get your kid a *-mart special and hope he naturally takes an
interest? He may hate riding the crummy bike and never imagine a better
bike would help. He'll never ride with you, and you'll grow old and lonely.

Kids outgrow bikes pretty fast, so ISTM that there should be a supply of
pretty good quality used kid's bikes out there. But IME they've been
hard to find.

Maybe I need to move to Portland, at least when I'm bike shopping.

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- Frank Krygowski
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Old December 12th 19, 04:12 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 3:15:05 PM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 1:56:22 PM UTC-8, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:23:52 PM UTC-8, sms wrote:
On 12/10/2019 3:23 PM, Chalo wrote:
sms wrote:

Personally, if I were him, I'd buy a used kid's road bike [...]

I think you're not remembering what being a kid is like, and also not observing the way kids are.

Road bikes (as in drop bar bikes) don't suit the vast majority of adults, let alone children.

No, I didn't mean to imply drop bars. I meant to imply no suspension
fork, road tires, and proper handlebars, sometimes called cafe bars or
granny bars.

The 24" wheeled Mixte that my neighbor's daughter has is more like what
I was thinking about
https://jetimages.jetcdn.net/md5/05244bdc473519ec3f17373b464f86a8. I
don't know what possessed Schwinn to offer such an expensive to produce
bicycle for Walmart.


I started all three daughters on normal road bikes. Two of them ended up racing and one got second or third (can't remember which) at the Jr. Nationals. They also put their rear wheels in the water in Portland and their front wheels in the water in the Atlantic after crossing the entire continent - three daughters and their mother.

Never sell people short and think that they can't grasp the use of the most complex bicycle.


Bad news, Tom. Portland is not on the coast. The girls were about 80 miles short of crossing the entire continent. They'll have to start over.

I bought a lot of bikes for my son when he was a kid, and he hardly rode any of them. He didn't start riding seriously until he went off to college, and they he went nuts. https://attheu.utah.edu/home-page/be...alt-lake-city/ He's the lug in the middle, back when he was a young, skinny roadie. Years later, he's a gym rat first and cyclist second, and at 6'6" he's starting to look more like Ivan Drago than Ivan Basso. Anyway, kids have to want to ride. Foisting nice bikes upon them is a waste of money.

-- Jay Beattie.


Bad mews Jay, a 13 year old road coast to coast and you didn't. So argue that my using the town of Portland instead of Astoria which most people have never heard of makes you want to argue. But then from your normal postings what doesn't?
 




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