Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA

Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA by tehwalrus on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:29PM (#13405090)

I used to work in Halfords in the UK and they sold adult bikes in the apollo range for £75. They do still have one for £80 on their website.

The apollo outrider (as it was then called) was always pretty shoddy, but mostly just for the look and feel of the components, a bit heavy etc. We didn't get that many of them back in for repair.

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Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA by Symbiote on Sunday January 15, 2017 @05:01PM (#13406650)

> We didn't get that many of them back in for repair.

But you don't know if they're actually used.

My mum and sister have cheap bikes from Halfords. They see less than 50km of use per year.

I used something similar (maybe Asda or Tesco's version?) and it was ruined with 1000km or so of use -- every bearing worn out, the wheel rims worn ... it was miserable to ride it.

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Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA by tehwalrus on Sunday January 15, 2017 @05:53PM (#13406877)

Sure, I thought that point had been made elsewhere in the thread.

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