[Cooter Brown]

Has anyone seen the infomercial on these bikes? This **** is terrible. I have never heard so many bike ignorant fools in my life. "You can ride around and not have to look down to shift". Who has to look down to shift?

what the hell? this is just awful

 

[Bicyclist]

Has anyone else actually had to work on these POS? Lemme tell ya, they SUCK.

 

[Cooter Brown]

Bicyclist, you have a PM

 

[-dustin]

we had to build one up. no rear skewer, no saddle, rear tire was backwards. straight from the factory.

 

[DHS]

i've worked on a couple of versions of that bike.

also the tech is from the 90s...

one customer trashed one of the weights in the wheel version. that sure wasn't fun to work on

 

[PatBranch]

I made a thread when I saw this: http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=157692&highlight=infomercial

 

[renorider40]

I saw the infomercial about a week ago and was so tempted to post something about them. I reccomend that everyone watches the infomercial, it is funny. When watching it proud owners told me that shifting was dangerous. I never new that shifting was so dangerous, since you are always having to look down when you shift. (I never even knew you had to look down to shift.) And there is way more funny stuff than just that. Seriously watch it.

 

[Bicyclist]

Bicyclist, you have a PM

As do you.

 

[jimmydean]

There is one that has been converted to a single speed that parks downtown. I thought that spoke volumes about the "auto-shift" function.

 

[DirtyMike]

I have built my share, they are crap, bottom line

 

[SteezyWeezy]

people who buy those should be put down. if you dont know ow to shift, dont ride a bike

 

[Mudpuppy]

There is one that has been converted to a single speed that parks downtown. I thought that spoke volumes about the "auto-shift" function.

I had the weights in the wheel model for a while in between real bikes to keep me riding. My aunt picked it up cheap at an auction in a lot of bikes. I picked it cause I wanted to try it out. Lemme tell you singlespeed is the only way to run them. The one I had had 3 ~5lb weights in the wheel it was CRAZY! That and it always shifted whenever you sped up or slowed down, so it would shift when you were trying to sprint....not good.:hot:

 

[binary visions]

people who buy those should be put down. if you dont know ow to shift, dont ride a bike

It may be a lousy piece of machinery, but my opinion is that anything that gets people out of the house into the fresh air and getting some exercise should be encouraged.

The infomercial cracks me right up, though.

 

[I Are Baboon]

I'd try one. Hell, I'll try anything that involves two wheels and pedaling.

Yeah, those infomercials are priceless. I like when they show an "example" of someone shifting on a traditional manual shifter and the person is all struggling with it and almost falls off the bike.